Anf-03 iv.ix.xiii Pg 68
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xxiii Pg 13
Isa. l. 11.
But all this would be unmeaning enough, if they suffered this retribution not on account of Him, who had in prophecy assigned their suffering to His own cause, but for the sake of the Christ of the other god. Well, then, although you affirm that it is the Christ of the other god who was driven to the cross by the powers and authorities of the Creator, as it were by hostile beings, still I have to say, See how manifestly He was defended3427 3427 Defensus, perhaps “claimed.”
by the Creator: there were given to Him both “the wicked for His burial,” even those who had strenuously maintained that His corpse had been stolen, “and the rich for His death,”3428 3428
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 50
VERSE (11) - Isa 28:15-20; 30:15,16; 55:2 Ps 20:7,8 Jer 17:5-7 Jon 2:8 Mt 15:6-8