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| Chapter XLII.—The bells on the priest’s robe were a figure of the apostles.
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Chapter XLII.—The bells on the
priest’s robe were a figure of the apostles.
“Moreover, the prescription that
twelve bells2062
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Ex. xxviii. 33 gives no definite number of bells.
Otto presumes Justin to have confounded the bells and gems, which were
twelve in number. | be attached to the [robe] of the high
priest, which hung down to the feet, was a symbol of the twelve apostles,
who depend on the power of Christ, the eternal Priest; and through their
voice it is that all the earth has been filled with the glory and grace
of God and of His Christ. Wherefore David also says: ‘Their sound
has gone forth into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the
world.’2063
And Isaiah speaks as if he
were personating the apostles, when they say to Christ that they believe
not in their own report, but in the power of Him who sent them. And so he
says: ‘Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm
of the Lord revealed? We have preached before Him as if [He were] a
child, as if a root in a dry ground.’2064
(And what follows in order of the prophecy already quoted.2065
) But
when the passage speaks as from the lips of many, ‘We have preached
before Him,’ and adds, ‘as if a child,’ it signifies
that the wicked shall become subject to Him, and shall obey His command,
and that all shall become as one child. Such a thing as you may witness
in the body: although the members are enumerated as many, all are called
one, and are a body. For, indeed, a commonwealth and a
church,2066
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vers. has conventus. | though many individuals in
number,
are in fact as one, called and addressed by one
appellation. And in short, sirs,” said I, “by enumerating all
the other appointments of Moses I can demonstrate that they were types,
and symbols, and declarations of those things which would happen to
Christ, of those who it was foreknown were to believe in Him, and of
those things which would also be done by Christ Himself. But since what I
have now enumerated appears to me to be sufficient, I revert again to the
order of the discourse.2067
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