Anf-03 vi.vii.v Pg 10
1 Cor. vii. 3; compare also 1 Pet. iii. 7.
she is impatient of keeping silence, and makes him the transmitter of that which she had imbibed from the Evil One? Therefore another human being, too, perishes through the impatience of the one; presently, too, perishes of himself, through his own impatience committed in each respect, both in regard of God’s premonition and in regard of the devil’s cheatery; not enduring to observe the former nor to refute the latter. Hence, whence (the origin) of delinquency, arose the first origin of judgment; hence, whence man was induced to offend, God began to be wroth. Whence (came) the first indignation in God, thence (came) His first patience; who, content at that time with malediction only, refrained in the devil’s case from the instant infliction9056 9056 Impetu.
of punishment. Else what crime, before this guilt of impatience, is imputed to man? Innocent he was, and in intimate friendship with God, and the husbandman9057 9057
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (7) - Ge 2:23,24 Pr 5:15-19 Mal 2:14-16 Mt 19:3-9 1Co 7:3 Col 3:19
