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Chapter
XVII.—First the Worse, Then the Better.
“In like manner, the combination with
respect to Elias, which behoved to have come, has been willingly put
off to another time, having determined to enjoy it conveniently
hereafter.926
| 926 In this sentence the
text is probably corrupted. The general meaning seems to be, that
he does not enter fully at present into the subject of Elias, or John
the Baptist, and the Christ, the greatest among the sons of men, coming
after, but that he will return to the subject on a fitting
occasion. | Wherefore,
also, he who was among those born of woman came first; then he who was
among the sons of men came
second. It were possible, following this order, to perceive to
what series Simon belongs, who came before me to the Gentiles, and to
which I belong who have come after him, and have come in upon him as
light upon darkness, as knowledge upon ignorance, as healing upon
disease. And thus, as the true Prophet has told us, a false
prophet must first come from some deceiver; and then, in like manner,
after the removal of the holy place, the true Gospel must be secretly
sent abroad for the rectification of the heresies that shall be.
After this, also, towards the end, Antichrist must first come, and then
our Jesus must be revealed to be indeed the Christ; and after this, the
eternal light having sprung up, all the things of darkness must
disappear.
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