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| Chapter CXL.—In Christ all are free. The Jews hope for salvation in vain because they are sons of Abraham.
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Chapter CXL.—In Christ all are free.
The Jews hope for salvation in vain because they are sons of Abraham.
“Hence also Jacob, as I remarked before, being
himself a type of Christ, had married the two handmaids of his two free
wives, and of them begat sons, for the purpose of indicating beforehand
that Christ would receive even all those who amongst Japheth’s race
are descendants of Canaan, equally with the free, and would have the
children fellow-heirs. And we are such; but you cannot comprehend this,
because you cannot drink of the living fountain of God, but of broken
cisterns which can hold no water, as the Scripture says.2482
But they are cisterns broken, and holding no water, which your
own teachers have digged, as the Scripture also expressly asserts,
‘teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.’2483
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besides, they beguile themselves and you, supposing that the everlasting
kingdom will be assuredly given to those of the dispersion who are of
Abraham after the flesh, although they be sinners, and faithless, and
disobedient towards God, which the Scriptures have proved is not the
case. For if so, Isaiah would never have said this: ‘And unless the
Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and
Gomorrah.’2484
And Ezekiel: ‘Even if
Noah, and Jacob, and Daniel were to pray for sons or daughters, their
request should not be granted.’2485
‘But neither shall the father perish for the son, nor the son for
the father; but every one for his own sin, and each shall be saved for
his own righteousness.’2486
And
again Isaiah says: ‘They shall look on the carcases2487
of them that have transgressed: their
worm shall not cease, and their fire shall not be quenched; and they
shall be a spectacle to all flesh.’2488
And our
Lord, according to the will of Him that sent Him, who is the Father and
Lord of all, would not have said, ‘They shall come from the east,
and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob
in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast
out into outer darkness.’2489
Furthermore, I have proved in what has preceded,2490
| 2490 Chap. lxxxviii, cii. | that
those who were foreknown to be unrighteous, whether men or angels, are
not made wicked by God’s fault, but each man by his own fault is
what he will appear to be.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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