Anf-03 v.ix.xi Pg 12
Ps. lxxi. 18.
Also to the same purport in another Psalm: “O Lord, how are they increased that trouble me!”7885 7885
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxiii Pg 0
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxiv Pg 0
Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 40
A ligno. Oehler refers us to Ps. xcvi. 10 (xcv. 10 in LXX.); but the special words “a ligno” are wanting there, though the text is often quoted by the Fathers.
I wait to hear what you understand thereby; for fear you may perhaps think some carpenter-king1345 1345
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xix Pg 3
Ps. xcvi. 10, with a ligno added.
I want to know what you understand by it. Perhaps you think some wooden3357 3357 Lignarium aliquem regem.
king of the Jews is meant!—and not Christ, who overcame death by His suffering on the cross, and thence reigned! Now, although death reigned from Adam even to Christ, why may not Christ be said to have reigned from the tree, from His having shut up the kingdom of death by dying upon the tree of His cross? Likewise Isaiah also says: “For unto us a child is born.”3358 3358
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxvii Pg 9
Jer. vi. 17, 18.
It is therefore one and the same Father who planted the vineyard, who led forth the people, who sent the prophets, who sent His own Son, and who gave the vineyard to those other husbandmen that render the fruits in their season.
