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| Chapter LXXVI.—From other passages the same majesty and government of Christ are proved.
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Chapter LXXVI.—From other passages
the same majesty and government of Christ are proved.
“For when
Daniel speaks of ‘one like unto the Son of man’ who received
the everlasting kingdom, does he not hint at this very thing? For he
declares that, in saying ‘like unto the Son of man,’ He
appeared, and was man, but not of human seed. And the same thing he
proclaimed in mystery when he speaks of this stone which was cut out
without hands. For the expression ‘it was cut out without
hands’ signified that it is not a work of man, but [a work] of the
will of the Father and God of all things, who brought Him forth. And when
Isaiah says, ‘Who shall declare His generation?’ he meant
that His descent could not be declared. Now no one who is a man of men
has a descent that cannot be declared. And when Moses says that He will
wash His garments in the blood of the grape, does not this signify what I
have now often told you is an obscure prediction, namely, that He had
blood, but not from men; just as not man, but God, has begotten the blood
of the vine? And when Isaiah calls Him the Angel of mighty counsel,2234
did he not foretell Him to
be the Teacher of those truths which He did teach when He came [to
earth]? For He alone taught openly those mighty counsels which the Father
designed both for all those who have been and shall be well-pleasing to
Him, and also for those who have rebelled against His will, whether men
or angels, when He said: ‘They shall come from the east [and from
the west2235
], 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.’2236
And,
‘Many shall say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not eaten,
and drunk, and prophesied, and cast out demons in Thy name? And I will
say to them, Depart from Me.’2237
Again,
in other words, by which He shall condemn those who are unworthy of
salvation, He said, ‘Depart into outer darkness, which the Father
has prepared for Satan and his, angels.’2238
And again, in other words, He said, ‘I give unto you power
to tread on serpents, and on scorpions, and on scolopendras, and
on all the might of the enemy.’2239
| 2239 Luke x. 19. [“And on
scolopendras” (i.e. centipedes) not in the original.] | And now we, who believe on our Lord Jesus, who was crucified
under Pontius Pilate, when we exorcise all demons and evil spirits, have
them subjected to us. For if the prophets declared obscurely that Christ
would suffer, and thereafter be Lord of all, yet that [declaration] could
not be understood by any man until He Himself persuaded the apostles that
such statements were expressly related in the Scriptures. For He
exclaimed before His crucifixion: ‘The Son of man must suffer many
things, and be rejected by the Scribes and Pharisees, and be
crucified, and on the third day rise again.’2240
And David predicted that He would be born from the womb before
sun and moon,2241
according to the Father’s will, and made Him known, being Christ,
as God strong and to be worshipped.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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