Anf-01 ix.vii.xxxiv Pg 10
Gen. xxvii. 28, 29.
If any one, then, does not accept these things as referring to the appointed kingdom, he must fall into much contradiction and contrariety, as is the case with the Jews, who are involved in absolute perplexity. For not only did not the nations in this life serve this Jacob; but even after he had received the blessing, he himself going forth [from his home], served his uncle Laban the Syrian for twenty years;4739 4739
Anf-01 ii.ii.iv Pg 4
Gen. xxxvii.
Envy compelled Moses to flee from the face of Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he heard these words from his fellow-countryman, “Who made thee a judge or a ruler over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?”21 21
Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 21
Manifested e.g., in his two dreams. See Gen. xxxvii.
just as Christ was sold by Israel—(and therefore,) “according to the flesh,” by His “brethren”1329 1329
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xix Pg 24
Anf-03 vi.iv.xxix Pg 6
1 Kings xviii.; James v. 17, 18.
and yet it had not (then) received its form from Christ. But how far more amply operative is Christian prayer! It does not station the angel of dew in mid-fires,8949 8949 i.e. “the angel who preserved in the furnace the three youths besprinkled, as it were, with dewy shower” (Muratori quoted by Oehler). [Apocrypha, The Song, etc., Song
