Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.xii Pg 23.1
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xix Pg 11
Isa. lviii. 7, slightly changed from the second to the third person.
“keep their tongue from evil, and their lips from speaking guile: depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it:”2931 2931
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvi Pg 56
Isa. lviii. 7.
By Ezekiel also He thus describes the just man: “His bread will he give to the hungry, and the naked will he cover with a garment.”4089 4089
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xvii Pg 28
Isa. lviii. 7.
also with, “Judge the fatherless, plead with the widow.”4119 4119
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxi Pg 4
Isa. lviii. 7.
because, no doubt, they are “unable to recompense” your act of humanity. Now, since Christ forbids the recompense to be expected now, but promises it “at the resurrection,” this is the very plan4728 4728 Forma.
of the Creator, who dislikes those who love gifts and follow after reward. Consider also to which deity4729 4729 Cui parti.
is better suited the parable of him who issued invitations: “A certain man made a great supper, and bade many.”4730 4730
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxvii Pg 6
Isa. lviii. 7.
This he did in the best possible way, by receiving the Lord, and entertaining Him in his house. “When thou seest the naked cover him.”4966 4966 In the same passage.
This he promised to do, in an equally satisfactory way, when he offered the half of his goods for all works of mercy.4967 4967
Anf-01 vi.ii.iii Pg 4
Isa. lviii. 6–10.
To this end, therefore, brethren, He is long-suffering, foreseeing how the people whom He has prepared shall with guilelessness believe in His Beloved. For He revealed all these things to us beforehand, that we should not rush forward as rash acceptors of their laws.1467 1467 The Greek is here unintelligible: the Latin has, “that we should not rush on, as if proselytes to their law.”
