Anf-03 v.x.vii Pg 6
Zech. xiii. 9.
Certainly by the means of torture which fires and punishments supply, by the testing martyrdoms of faith. The apostle also knows what kind of God he has ascribed to us, when he writes: “If God spared not His own Son, but gave Him up for us, how did He not with Him also give us all things?”8261 8261
Anf-02 ii.iv.vii Pg 3.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xviii Pg 36
Luke vii. 26, 27, and Mal. iii. 1–; 3.
He graciously4171 4171 Eleganter.
adduced the prophecy in the superior sense of the alternative mentioned by the perplexed John, in order that, by affirming that His own precursor was already come in the person of John, He might quench the doubt4172 4172 Scrupulum.
which lurked in his question: “Art thou He that should come, or look we for another?” Now that the forerunner had fulfilled his mission, and the way of the Lord was prepared, He ought now to be acknowledged as that (Christ) for whom the forerunner had made ready the way. That forerunner was indeed “greater than all of women born;”4173 4173
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 48
VERSE (10) - Isa 1:25,26 Job 23:10 Ps 66:10 Pr 17:3 Jer 9:7 Eze 20:38
