Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 45
See Jer. xi. 19 (in LXX.).
Of course on His body that “wood” was put;1349 1349
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xix Pg 7
Jer. xi. 19.
that is, His body. For so did God in your own gospel even reveal the sense, when He called His body bread; so that, for the time to come, you may understand that He has given to His body the figure of bread, whose body the prophet of old figuratively turned into bread, the Lord Himself designing to give by and by an interpretation of the mystery. If you require still further prediction of the Lord’s cross, the twenty-first Psalm3361 3361 The twenty-second Psalm. A.V.
is sufficiently able to afford it to you, containing as it does the entire passion of Christ, who was even then prophetically declaring3362 3362 Canentis.
His glory. “They pierced,” says He, “my hands and my feet,”3363 3363
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xl Pg 21
So the Septuagint in Jer. xi. 19, Ξύλον εἰς τὸν ἄρτον αὐτοῦ (A.V. “Let us destroy the tree with the fruit”). See above, book iii. chap. xix. p. 337.
which means, of course, the cross upon His body. And thus, casting light, as He always did, upon the ancient prophecies,5089 5089 Illuminator antiquitatum. This general phrase includes typical ordinances under the law, as well as the sayings of the prophets.
He declared plainly enough what He meant by the bread, when He called the bread His own body. He likewise, when mentioning the cup and making the new testament to be sealed “in His blood,”5090 5090
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 126.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 126.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 126.1
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxix Pg 3
1 Kings xix. 14; 18.
Therefore, just as God did not inflict His anger on account of those seven thousand men, even so He has now neither yet inflicted judgment, nor does inflict it, knowing that daily some [of you] are becoming disciples in the name of Christ, and quitting the path of error; who are also receiving gifts, each as he is worthy, illumined through the name of this Christ. For one receives the spirit of understanding, another of counsel, another of strength, another of healing, another of foreknowledge, another of teaching, and another of the fear of God.”
Anf-01 ix.vii.xxv Pg 3
Prov. xxi. 1.
And the Word also says by Solomon, “By me kings do reign, and princes administer justice. By me chiefs are raised up, and by me kings rule the earth.”4656 4656
Anf-02 v.ii.xviii Pg 6.1
Anf-03 vi.iv.v Pg 3
Prov. xxi. 1.
But whatever we wish for ourselves we augur for Him, and to Him we attribute what from Him we expect. And so, if the manifestation of the Lord’s kingdom pertains unto the will of God and unto our anxious expectation, how do some pray for some protraction of the age,8791 8791 Or, “world,” sæculo.
when the kingdom of God, which we pray may arrive, tends unto the consummation of the age?8792 8792
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 20
VERSE (2) - Jer 1:19; 19:14,15; 26:8; 29:26; 36:26; 37:15,16; 38:6 1Ki 22:27
