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Chapter
XLII.—Call of the Gentiles.
“But inasmuch as it was necessary that the
Gentiles should be called into the room of those who remained
unbelieving,570
| 570 [Chaps. 42, 43, show
little of the Ebionitic tendency, except in the attempt to reduce the
difference between Jews and Christians to the single point of belief in
the Messiahship of Jesus.—R] | so that the number
might be filled up which had been shown to Abraham,571
the preaching of the blessed kingdom of God
is sent into all the world. On this account worldly spirits are
disturbed, who always oppose those who are in quest of liberty, and who
make use of the engines of error to destroy God’s building; while
those who press on to the glory of safety and liberty, being rendered
braver by their resistance to these spirits, and by the toil of great
struggles against them, attain the crown of safety not without the palm
of victory. Meantime, when He had suffered, and darkness had
overwhelmed the world from the sixth even to the ninth hour,572
as soon as the sun shone out again, and
things were returned to their usual course, even wicked men returned to
themselves and their former practices, their fear having abated.
For some of them, watching the place with all care, when they could not
prevent His rising again, said that He was a magician; others pretended
that he was stolen away.”573
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