Anf-01 ix.vii.xxxiii Pg 12
Gal. iii. 16.
And again, confirming his former words, he says, “Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore, that they which are of faith are the children of Abraham. But the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, declared to Abraham beforehand, That in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which are of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham.”4730 4730
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.iv Pg 7
Gal. iii. 16.
Fie on5327 5327 Erubescat.
Marcion’s sponge! But indeed it is superfluous to dwell on what he has erased, when he may be more effectually confuted from that which he has retained.5328 5328
Anf-03 iv.ix.i Pg 11
See Gen. xxii. 18; and comp. Gal. iii. 16, and the reference in both places.
and that1130 1130
Anf-03 vi.vii.vi Pg 5
Gal. iii. 16.
and was superinducing grace over the law,9078 9078
Anf-03 v.vii.xxii Pg 8
Gal. iii. 8; 16.
When we read and believe these things, what sort of flesh ought we, and can we, acknowledge in Christ? Surely none other than Abraham’s, since Christ is “the seed of Abraham;” none other than Jesse’s, since Christ is the blossom of “the stem of Jesse;” none other than David’s, since Christ is “the fruit of David’s loins;” none other than Mary’s, since Christ came from Mary’s womb; and, higher still, none other than Adam’s, since Christ is “the second Adam.” The consequence, therefore, is that they must either maintain, that those (ancestors) had a spiritual flesh, that so there might be derived to Christ the same condition of substance, or else allow that the flesh of Christ was not a spiritual one, since it is not traced from the origin7249 7249 Censetur.
of a spiritual stock.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (16) - :8 Ge 12:3,7; 13:15,16; 15:5; 17:7,8; 21:12; 22:17,18; 26:3,4; 28:13
