Anf-02 vi.iv.v.i Pg 23.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.iii Pg 10.2
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xviii Pg 3.1
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.v Pg 16
1 Cor. i. 19; from Isa. xxix. 14.
Now, since these are the Creator’s words, and since what pertains to the doctrine5400 5400 Causam.
of the cross he accounts as foolishness, therefore both the cross, and also Christ by reason of the cross, will appertain to the Creator, by whom were predicted the incidents of the cross. But if5401 5401 Aut si: introducing a Marcionite cavil.
the Creator, as an enemy, took away their wisdom in order that the cross of Christ, considered as his adversary, should be accounted foolishness, how by any possibility can the Creator have foretold anything about the cross of a Christ who is not His own, and of whom He knew nothing, when He published the prediction? But, again, how happens it, that in the system of a Lord5402 5402 Apud dominum.
who is so very good, and so profuse in mercy, some carry off salvation, when they believe the cross to be the wisdom and power of God, whilst others incur perdition, to whom the cross of Christ is accounted folly;—(how happens it, I repeat,) unless it is in the Creator’s dispensation to have punished both the people of Israel and the human race, for some great offence committed against Him, with the loss of wisdom and prudence? What follows will confirm this suggestion, when he asks, “Hath not God infatuated the wisdom of this world?”5403 5403
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xix Pg 31
Isa. xxix. 14, quoted 1 Cor. i. 19; comp. Jer. viii. 9 and Job v. 12, 13.
Thanks to this simplicity of truth, so opposed to the subtlety and vain deceit of philosophy, we cannot possibly have any relish for such perverse opinions. Then, if God “quickens us together with Christ, forgiving us our trespasses,”6086 6086
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (19) - 1Co 3:19 Job 5:12,13 Isa 19:3,11; 29:14 Jer 8:9
