Anf-01 v.iii.ix Pg 10
Isa. xxxv. 4.
Let us therefore no longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness; for “he that does not work, let him not eat.”688 688 2 Thess. iii. 10.
For say the [holy] oracles, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”689 689
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 6
Isa. xxxv. 4.
Be strong is not vainly repeated, nor is fear not vainly added; because with the renewal of the limbs there was to be, according to the promise, a restoration also of bodily energies: “Arise, and take up thy couch;” and likewise moral courage3765 3765 Animi vigorem.
not to be afraid of those who should say, “Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” So that you have here not only the fulfilment of the prophecy which promised a particular kind of healing, but also of the symptoms which followed the cure. In like manner, you should also recognise Christ in the same prophet as the forgiver of sins. “For,” he says, “He shall remit to many their sins, and shall Himself take away our sins.”3766 3766
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 70
See Isa. xxxv. 4, 5, 6.
and so on; which works not even you deny that Christ did, inasmuch as you were wont to say that, “on account of the works ye stoned Him not, but because He did them on the Sabbaths.”1312 1312
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 91
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 106
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 35
VERSE (4) - Isa 28:16; 32:4 *marg:
