Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xviii Pg 23.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.v Pg 7.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.iii Pg 4.1
Anf-03 v.ix.xiv Pg 7
Ex. xxxiii. 11.
just as Jacob also says, “I have seen God face to face.”7925 7925
Anf-03 v.ix.xiv Pg 14
Comp. ver. 13 with ver. 11 of Ex. xxxiii.
which he ought not to have desired, because he had already seen it? And how, in like manner, does the Lord also say that His face cannot be seen, because He had shown it, if indeed He really had, (as our opponents suppose). Or what is that face of God, the sight of which is refused, if there was one which was visible to man? “I have seen God,” says Jacob, “face to face, and my life is preserved.”7932 7932 Gen. xxii. 30.
There ought to be some other face which kills if it be only seen. Well, then, was the Son visible? (Certainly not,7933 7933 Involved in the nunquid.
) although He was the face of God, except only in vision and dream, and in a glass and enigma, because the Word and Spirit (of God) cannot be seen except in an imaginary form. But, (they say,) He calls the invisible Father His face. For who is the Father? Must He not be the face of the Son, by reason of that authority which He obtains as the begotten of the Father? For is there not a natural propriety in saying of some personage greater (than yourself), That man is my face; he gives me his countenance? “My Father,” says Christ, “is greater than I.”7934 7934
Anf-03 vi.iv.vii Pg 6
Ex. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.
Moreover, debt is, in the Scriptures, a figure of guilt; because it is equally due to the sentence of judgment, and is exacted by it: nor does it evade the justice of exaction, unless the exaction be remitted, just as the lord remitted to that slave in the parable his debt;8812 8812
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 33
VERSE (11) - :9 Ge 32:30 Nu 12:8 De 5:4; 34:10
