Anf-01 ix.iv.x Pg 10
Ps. cxxxii. 11.
And again: “In Judea is God known; His place has been made in peace, and His dwelling in Zion.”3381 3381
Anf-01 ix.iv.xvii Pg 6
Ps. cxxxii. 11.
even as God did promise David that He would raise up from the fruit of his body an eternal King, having made the same promise to Abraham a long time previously, says: “The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.”3573 3573
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xx Pg 12
Ps. cxxxii. 11.
What body is meant? David’s own? Certainly not. For David was not to give birth to a son.3381 3381 He treats “body” as here meaning womb.
Nor his wife’s either. For instead of saying, “Of the fruit of thy body,” he would then have rather said, “Of the fruit of thy wife’s body.” But by mentioning his3382 3382 Ipsius.
body, it follows that He pointed to some one of his race of whose body the flesh of Christ was to be the fruit, which bloomed forth from3383 3383 Floruit ex.
Mary’s womb. He named the fruit of the body (womb) alone, because it was peculiarly fruit of the womb, of the womb only in fact, and not of the husband also; and he refers the womb (body) to David, as to the chief of the race and father of the family. Because it could not consist with a virgin’s condition to consort her with a husband,3384 3384 Viro deputare.
He therefore attributed the body (womb) to the father. That new dispensation, then, which is found in Christ now, will prove to be what the Creator then promised under the appellation of “the sure mercies of David,” which were Christ’s, inasmuch as Christ sprang from David, or rather His very flesh itself was David’s “sure mercies,” consecrated by religion, and “sure” after its resurrection. Accordingly the prophet Nathan, in the first of Kings,3385 3385
Anf-03 v.vii.xxi Pg 17
Ps. cxxxii. 11; also Acts ii. 30.
If “of David’s loins,” how much rather is He of Mary’s loins, by virtue of whom He is in “the loins of David?”
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (46) - :13 1Ch 29:23 Ps 132:11 Hag 2:22
