Anf-01 viii.iv.xxvii Pg 4
Isa. iii. 16.
For they are all gone aside,’ He exclaims, ‘they are all become useless. There is none that understands, there is not so much as one. With their tongues they have practised deceit, their throat is an open sepulchre, the poison of asps is under their lips, destruction and misery are in their paths, and the way of peace they have not known.’2018 2018
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.xi Pg 75.2
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 37
Isa. iii. 16–24.
just as in another passage He utters His threats against the proud and noble: “Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth, and down to it shall descend the illustrious, and the great, and the rich (this shall be Christ’s ‘woe to the rich’); and man4017 4017 Homo: “the mean man,” A.V.
shall be humbled,” even he that exalts himself with riches; “and the mighty man4018 4018 Vir.
shall be dishonoured,” even he who is mighty from his wealth.4019 4019
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxvii Pg 38
The books point to Isa. iii. 3, 4 for this; but there is only a slight similarity in the latter clause, even in the Septuagint.
And who did this more than the lawyers?4611 4611 Legis doctores: the νομικοί of the Gospels.
Now, if these offended Christ, it was as belonging to Him that they offended Him. He would have aimed no blow at the teachers of an alien law. But why is a “woe” pronounced against them for “building the sepulchres of the prophets whom their fathers had killed?”4612 4612 :1 32:9-13
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 9
VERSE (18) - :10,20
