Anf-01 ix.ii.iv Pg 24
Col. ii. 9.
and yet again, “All things are gathered together by God in Christ.”2701 2701
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.vi Pg 19
He seems here to allude to such statements of God’s being as Col. ii. 9.
Now, when these things are carefully considered, it becomes evident how the Jews both rejected Christ and slew Him; not because they regarded Him as a strange Christ, but because they did not acknowledge Him, although their own. For how could they have understood the strange One, concerning whom nothing had ever been announced, when they failed to understand Him about whom there had been a perpetual course of prophecy? That admits of being understood or being not understood, which, by possessing a substantial basis for prophecy,3174 3174 Substantiam prædictationis.
will also have a subject-matter3175 3175 Materiam.
for either knowledge or error; whilst that which lacks such matter admits not the issue of wisdom. So that it was not as if He belonged to another3176 3176 Alterius, “the other,” i.e., Marcion’s rival God.
god that they conceived an aversion for Christ, and persecuted Him, but simply as a man whom they regarded as a wonder-working juggler,3177 3177 Planum in signis, cf. the Magnum in potestate of Apolog. 21.
and an enemy3178 3178 Æmulum, “a rival,” i.e., to Moses.
in His doctrines. They brought Him therefore to trial as a mere man, and one of themselves too—that is, a Jew (only a renegade and a destroyer of Judaism)—and punished Him according to their law. If He had been a stranger, indeed, they would not have sat in judgment over Him. So far are they from appearing to have understood Him to be a strange Christ, that they did not even judge Him to be a stranger to their own human nature.3179 3179 Nec hominem ejus ut alienum judicaverunt, “His manhood they judged not to be different.”
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (9) - :2,3; 1:19 Isa 7:14 Mt 1:23 Joh 10:30,38; 14:9,10,20; 17:21
