Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 17
“Temperamentum calicis:” on which Harvey remarks that “the mixture of water with the wine in the holy Eucharist was the universal practice of antiquity … the wine signifying the mystical Head of the Church, the water the body.” [Whatever the significance, it harmonizes with the Paschal chalice, and with 1 John v. 6, and St. John’s gospel John xix. 34, 35.]
And why did He acknowledge Himself to be the Son of man, if He had not gone through that birth which belongs to a human being? How, too, could He forgive us those sins for which we are answerable to our Maker and God? And how, again, supposing that He was not flesh, but was a man merely in appearance, could He have been crucified, and could blood and water have issued from His pierced side?4268 4268
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.ix Pg 9.1
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xiv Pg 25
Rom. x. 2–4.
Hereupon we shall be confronted with an argument of the heretic, that the Jews were ignorant of the superior God,5860 5860 The god of the New Testament, according to Marcion.
since, in opposition to him, they set up their own righteousness—that is, the righteousness of their law—not receiving Christ, the end (or finisher) of the law. But how then is it that he bears testimony to their zeal for their own God, if it is not in respect of the same God that he upbraids them for their ignorance? They were affected indeed with zeal for God, but it was not an intelligent zeal: they were, in fact, ignorant of Him, because they were ignorant of His dispensations by Christ, who was to bring about the consummation of the law; and in this way did they maintain their own righteousness in opposition to Him. But so does the Creator Himself testify to their ignorance concerning Him: “Israel hath not known me; my people have not understood me;”5861 5861
Npnf-201 iii.xiv.xi Pg 10
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 20
VERSE (26) - Job 16:19 Joh 12:17; 19:35 Ro 10:2 2Co 1:23; 8:3 1Th 2:10-12
