Anf-01 viii.iv.cii Pg 3
Gen. xi. 6.
And the statement, ‘My strength is become dry like a potsherd, and my tongue has cleaved to my throat,’ was also a prophecy of what would be done by Him according to the Father’s will. For the power of His strong word, by which He always confuted the Pharisees and Scribes, and, in short, all your nation’s teachers that questioned Him, had a cessation like a plentiful and strong spring, the waters of which have been turned off, when He kept silence, and chose to return no answer to any one in the presence of Pilate; as has been declared in the memoirs of His apostles, in order that what is recorded by Isaiah might have efficacious fruit, where it is written, ‘The Lord gives me a tongue, that I may know when I ought to speak.’2339 2339
Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 47
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xix Pg 10
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.iii Pg 7.1
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xix Pg 31
Isa. xxix. 14, quoted 1 Cor. i. 19; comp. Jer. viii. 9 and Job v. 12, 13.
Thanks to this simplicity of truth, so opposed to the subtlety and vain deceit of philosophy, we cannot possibly have any relish for such perverse opinions. Then, if God “quickens us together with Christ, forgiving us our trespasses,”6086 6086
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.vi Pg 44
1 Cor. iii. 19, 20; Job v. 13; Ps. xciv. 11.
For in general we may conclude for certain that he could not possibly have cited the authority of that God whom he was bound to destroy, since he would not teach for Him.5467 5467 Si non illi doceret.
“Therefore,” says he, “let no man glory in man;”5468 5468
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (13) - Ge 11:6-9 2Sa 15:31 Job 5:13,14 Ps 39:6; 127:1,2 Pr 21:30
