Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 19
Isa. xliv. 5.
Now, what plea is wiser and more irresistible than the simple and open5032 5032 Exserta.
confession made in a martyr’s cause, who “prevails with God”—which is what “Israel” means?5033 5033
Anf-03 v.x.vii Pg 5
Isa. xliv. 5.
O good mother! I myself also wish to be put among the number of her sons, that I may be slain by her; I wish to be slain, that I may become a son. But does she merely murder her sons, or also torture them? For I hear God also, in another passage, say, “I will burn them as gold is burned, and will try them as silver is tried.”8260 8260
Anf-02 vi.ii.xi Pg 15.2
Anf-03 v.x.vii Pg 6
Zech. xiii. 9.
Certainly by the means of torture which fires and punishments supply, by the testing martyrdoms of faith. The apostle also knows what kind of God he has ascribed to us, when he writes: “If God spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us, how did He not with Him also give us all things?”8261 8261
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 8
VERSE (5) - 2Co 5:14,15 1Sa 1:28 2Ch 30:8 Isa 44:3-5 Jer 31:33 Zec 13:9
