Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xx Pg 14.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.i Pg 23.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.ii Pg 13.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xx Pg 38
Isa. vii. 9.
When Christ approved of the faith of this woman, which simply rested in the Creator, He declared by His answer to her,4252 4252
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxv Pg 12
Isa. vii. 9.
); and He had offenders in those wise and prudent ones who would not seek after God, although He was to be discovered in His so many and mighty works,4475 4475
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 35
Isa. vii. 9, Sept.
and again, “I will take away the wisdom of their wise men, and bring to nought5712 5712 Sept. κρὐψω, “will hide.”
the understanding of their prudent ones.” But these words, of course, He did not pronounce against them for concealing the gospel of the unknown God. At any rate, if there is a God of this world,5713 5713 Said concessively, in reference to M.’s position above mentioned.
He blinds the heart of the unbelievers of this world, because they have not of their own accord recognised His Christ, who ought to be understood from His Scriptures.5714 5714 Marcion’s “God of this world” being the God of the Old Testament.
Content with my advantage, I can willingly refrain from noticing to any greater length5715 5715 Hactenus: pro non amplius (Oehler) tractasse.
this point of ambiguous punctuation, so as not to give my adversary any advantage,5716 5716 “A fuller criticism on this slight matter might give his opponent the advantage, as apparently betraying a penury of weightier and more certain arguments” (Oehler).
indeed, I might have wholly omitted the discussion. A simpler answer I shall find ready to hand in interpreting “the god of this world” of the devil, who once said, as the prophet describes him: “I will be like the Most High; I will exalt my throne in the clouds.”5717 5717
Anf-01 ix.iv.xxii Pg 16
Isa. vii. 10–17.
Carefully, then, has the Holy Ghost pointed out, by what has been said, His birth from a virgin, and His essence, that He is God (for the name Emmanuel indicates this). And He shows that He is a man, when He says, “Butter and honey shall He eat;” and in that He terms Him a child also, [in saying,] “before He knows good and evil;” for these are all the tokens of a human infant. But that He “will not consent to evil, that He may choose that which is good,”—this is proper to God; that by the fact, that He shall eat butter and honey, we should not understand that He is a mere man only, nor, on the other hand, from the name Emmanuel, should suspect Him to be God without flesh.
