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Chapter XII.—Further Proofs from the Calling of the
Gentiles.
Look at the universal nations thenceforth emerging
from the vortex of human error to the Lord God the Creator and His
Christ; and if you dare to deny that this was prophesied, forthwith
occurs to you the promise of the Father in the Psalms, which says,
“My Son art Thou; to-day have I begotten Thee. Ask of Me,
and I will give Thee Gentiles as Thine heritage, and as
Thy possession the bounds of the earth.”1379
For you will not be able to affirm that
“son” to be David rather than Christ; or the “bounds
of the earth” to have been promised rather to David, who reigned
within the single (country of) Judea, than to Christ, who has already
taken captive the whole orb with the faith of His gospel; as He says
through Isaiah: “Behold, I have given Thee for a
covenant1380
| 1380 Dispositionem; Gr.
διαθήκην. | of my family, for a
light of Gentiles, that Thou mayst open the eyes of the
blind”—of course, such as err—“to outloose from
bonds the bound”—that is, to free them from
sins—“and from the house of prison”—that is, of
death—“such as sit in darkness”1381
| 1381 Isa. xlii. 6, 7, comp. lxi. 1; Luke iv.
14–18. | —of ignorance, to wit. And if these
blessings accrue through Christ, they will not have been prophesied of
another than Him through whom we consider them to have been
accomplished.1382
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