Anf-01 v.vi.iii Pg 7
Comp. 1 Cor. v. 11.
with such a man, lest ye perish along with him, even should he be thy father, thy son, thy brother, or a member of thy family. For says [the Scripture], “Thine eye shall not spare him.”898 898
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 23
1 Cor. v. 11.
And again does the apostle say, “Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of mistrust. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”4193 4193
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.i Pg 38.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 259.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.ix Pg 9
1 Cor. v. 11.
forasmuch as the taint of sins would be communicated as if contagious, wherever a man should mix himself with the sinner. The Lord, therefore, wishing that the law should be more profoundly understood as signifying spiritual truths by carnal facts3718 3718 Per carnalia, by material things.
—and thus3719 3719 Hoc nomine.
not destroying, but rather building up, that law which He wanted to have more earnestly acknowledged—touched the leper, by whom (even although as man He might have been defiled) He could not be defiled as God, being of course incorruptible. The prescription, therefore, could not be meant for Him, that He was bound to observe the law and not touch the unclean person, seeing that contact with the unclean would not cause defilement to Him. I thus teach that this (immunity) is consistent in my Christ, the rather when I show that it is not consistent in yours. Now, if it was as an enemy3720 3720 Æmulus.
of the law that He touched the leper—disregarding the precept of the law by a contempt of the defilement—how could he be defiled, when he possessed not a body3721 3721 Another allusion to Marcion’s Docetic doctrine.
which could be defiled? For a phantom is not susceptible of defilement. He therefore, who could not be defiled, as being a phantom, will not have an immunity from pollution by any divine power, but owing to his fantastic vacuity; nor can he be regarded as having despised pollution, who had not in fact any material capacity3722 3722 Materiam.
for it; nor, in like manner, as having destroyed the law, who had escaped defilement from the occasion of his phantom nature, not from any display of virtue. If, however, the Creator’s prophet Elisha cleansed Naaman the Syrian alone,3723 3723 Unicum.
to the exclusion of3724 3724
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.ix Pg 58.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 5
VERSE (11) - 1Co 6:6; 7:12,15; 8:11 Mt 18:17 Ac 9:17 Ro 16:17 2Th 3:6,14 2Jo 1:10
