Anf-03 iv.ix.xiii Pg 41
This conclusion they had drawn before, and are not said to have drawn, consequently, upon this occasion. See 2 Kings (4 Kings in LXX.) ii. 16.
What is more manifest than the mystery1419 1419 Sacramento.
of this “wood,”—that the obduracy of this world1420 1420 “Sæculi,” or perhaps here “heathendom.”
had been sunk in the profundity of error, and is freed in baptism by the “wood” of Christ, that is, of His passion; in order that what had formerly perished through the “tree” in Adam, should be restored through the “tree” in Christ?1421 1421 For a similar argument, see Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo? l. i. c. iii. sub fin.
while we, of course, who have succeeded to, and occupy, the room of the prophets, at the present day sustain in the world1422 1422 Sæculo.
that treatment which the prophets always suffered on account of divine religion: for some they stoned, some they banished; more, however, they delivered to mortal slaughter,1423 1423 Mortis necem.
—a fact which they cannot deny.1424 1424
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 33
VERSE (22) - Eze 1:3; 3:22; 37:1; 40:1
