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LXX- Greek Septuagint - Job 3:5 εκλαβοι δε 1161 αυτην 846 σκοτος 4655 και 2532 σκια 4639 θανατου 2288 επελθοι επ 1909 ' αυτην 846 γνοφος
Douay Rheims Bible Let darkness, and the shadow of death cover it, let a mist overspread it, and let it be wrapped up in bitterness.
King James Bible - Job 3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
World English Bible Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
Early Church Father Links Anf-08 vii.vii Pg 44
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Job 3:5
Early Christian Commentary - (A.D. 100 - A.D. 325) Anf-01 viii.ii.xl Pg 3
Ps. i., Ps. ii.
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.viii Pg 48.1
Anf-03 vi.vii.xiv Pg 6
Compare Ps. ii. 4. how was the evil one cut asunder,9173 9173 i.e. with rage and disappointment. while Job with mighty equanimity kept scraping off9174 9174
Anf-01 ix.iv.ix Pg 12
Ps. cxv. 3. But the things established are distinct from Him who has established them, and what have been made from Him who has made them. For He is Himself uncreated, both without beginning and end, and lacking nothing. He is Himself sufficient for Himself; and still further, He grants to all others this very thing, existence; but the things which have been made by Him have received a beginning. But whatever things had a beginning, and are liable to dissolution, and are subject to and stand in need of Him who made them, must necessarily in all respects have a different term [applied to them], even by those who have but a moderate capacity for discerning such things; so that He indeed who made all things can alone, together with His Word, properly be termed God and Lord: but the things which have been made cannot have this term applied to them, neither should they justly assume that appellation which belongs to the Creator.
Anf-01 viii.ii.xxxvii Pg 3
Isa. lxvi. 1. And again, in another place, “Your new moons and your sabbaths My soul hateth; and the great day of the fast and of ceasing from labour I cannot away with; nor, if ye come to be seen of Me, will I hear you: your hands are full of blood; and if ye bring fine flour, incense, it is abomination unto Me: the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls I do not desire. For who hath required this at your hands? But loose every bond of wickedness, tear asunder the tight knots of violent contracts, cover the houseless and naked, deal thy bread to the hungry.”1843 1843
Anf-01 vi.ii.xvi Pg 4
Isa. lxvi. 1. Ye perceive that their hope is vain. Moreover, He again says, “Behold, they who have cast down this temple, even they shall build it up again.”1675 1675
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxii Pg 5
Isa. lxvi. 1.
Anf-01 ix.vi.iii Pg 18
Isa. lxvi. 1. And besides this Being there is no other God; otherwise He would not be termed by the Lord either “God” or “the great King;” for a Being who can be so described admits neither of any other being compared with nor set above Him. For he who has any superior over him, and is under the power of another, this being never can be called either “God” or “the great King.”
Anf-02 v.ii.ix Pg 6.1
Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 11.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.ii Pg 6.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xi Pg 22.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 139.1
Anf-03 v.ix.xvi Pg 19
Isa. lxvi. 1. in whom is every place, but Himself is in no place; who is the utmost bound of the universe;—how happens it, I say, that He (who, though) the Most High, should yet have walked in paradise towards the cool of the evening, in quest of Adam; and should have shut up the ark after Noah had entered it; and at Abraham’s tent should have refreshed Himself under an oak; and have called to Moses out of the burning bush; and have appeared as “the fourth” in the furnace of the Babylonian monarch (although He is there called the Son of man),—unless all these events had happened as an image, as a mirror, as an enigma (of the future incarnation)? Surely even these things could not have been believed even of the Son of God, unless they had been given us in the Scriptures; possibly also they could not have been believed of the Father, even if they had been given in the Scriptures, since these men bring Him down into Mary’s womb, and set Him before Pilate’s judgment-seat, and bury Him in the sepulchre of Joseph. Hence, therefore, their error becomes manifest; for, being ignorant that the entire order of the divine administration has from the very first had its course through the agency of the Son, they believe that the Father Himself was actually seen, and held converse with men, and worked, and was athirst, and suffered hunger (in spite of the prophet who says: “The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, shall never thirst at all, nor be hungry;”7978 7978
Npnf-201 iv.viii.ii Pg 3
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.ii Pg 4.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 120.1
Anf-01 ix.ii.xx Pg 4
Rom. iii. 11; Ps. xiv. 3. they maintain to be said concerning ignorance of Bythus. Also that which is spoken by Moses, “No man shall see God and live,”2909 2909
Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.xxxv Pg 10.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.xvi Pg 6
Isa. liii. The reader will observe how often the text of the Septuagint, here quoted, differs from the Hebrew as represented by our authorized English version. And again He saith, “I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All that see Me have derided Me; they have spoken with their lips; they have wagged their head, [saying] He hoped in God, let Him deliver Him, let Him save Him, since He delighteth in Him.”71 71
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.viii Pg 20.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xiv Pg 48
Famulis et magistratibus. It is uncertain what passage this quotation represents. It sounds like some of the clauses of Isa. liii. Now, since hatred was predicted against that Son of man who has His mission from the Creator, whilst the Gospel testifies that the name of Christians, as derived from Christ, was to be hated for the Son of man’s sake, because He is Christ, it determines the point that that was the Son of man in the matter of hatred who came according to the Creator’s purpose, and against whom the hatred was predicted. And even if He had not yet come, the hatred of His name which exists at the present day could not in any case have possibly preceded Him who was to bear the name.3980 3980 Personam nominis. But He has both suffered the penalty3981 3981 Sancitur. in our presence, and surrendered His life, laying it down for our sakes, and is held in contempt by the Gentiles. And He who was born (into the world) will be that very Son of man on whose account our name also is rejected.
Anf-03 v.ix.xxx Pg 5
This is the sense rather than the words of Isa. liii. 5, 6. In this manner He “forsook” Him, in not sparing Him; “forsook” Him, in delivering Him up. In all other respects the Father did not forsake the Son, for it was into His Father’s hands that the Son commended His spirit.8189 8189
Npnf-201 iv.viii.xvi Pg 16
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxv Pg 5
Isa. lxiii. 15 to end, and Isa. lxiv.
Anf-03 vi.vii.x Pg 9
Isa. lxiv. 6. —earthen vessels.9118 9118
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.v Pg 2.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.vi Pg 5
Comp. Luke i. 78, 79, Isa. ix. 1; 2, with Matt. iv. 12–16. And so there is incumbent on us a necessity1214 1214
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 46
Isa. ix. 2 and Matt. iv. 16. (None else, surely, than He), to whom the Spirit in the Psalm answers, in His foresight of the future, saying, “The light of Thy countenance, O Lord, hath been displayed upon us.”5723 5723
Npnf-201 iii.vi.vi Pg 24
Npnf-201 iii.xiii.ii Pg 17
Anf-01 viii.iv.xiv Pg 2
Isa. lv. 3 to end. Of these and such like words written by the prophets, O Trypho,” said I, “some have reference to the first advent of Christ, in which He is preached as inglorious, obscure, and of mortal appearance: but others had reference to His second advent, when He shall appear in glory and above the clouds; and your nation shall see and know Him whom they have pierced, as Hosea, one of the twelve prophets, and Daniel, foretold.
Anf-01 viii.iv.xii Pg 2
Isa. lv. 3 ff. according to LXX. This same law you have despised, and His new holy covenant you have slighted; and now you neither receive it, nor repent of your evil deeds. ‘For your ears are closed, your eyes are blinded, and the heart is hardened,’ Jeremiah1972 1972
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xx Pg 9
Isa. lv. 3. Indeed, you will be obliged from these words all the more to understand that Christ is reckoned to spring from David by carnal descent, by reason of His birth3378 3378 Censum. [Kaye, p. 149.] of the Virgin Mary. Touching this promise of Him, there is the oath to David in the psalm, “Of the fruit of thy body3379 3379 Ventris, “womb.” will I set upon thy throne.”3380 3380
Anf-03 v.iv.v.i Pg 29
Isa. lv. 3. in order that He might show that that covenant was to run its course in Christ. That He was of the family of David, according to the genealogy of Mary,3504 3504 Secundum Mariæ censum. See Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature (third edition), in the article “Genealogy of Jesus Christ,” where the translator of this work has largely given reasons for believing that St. Luke in his genealogy, (chap. iii.) has traced the descent of the Virgin Mary. To the authorities there given may be added this passage of Tertullian, and a fuller one, Adversus Judæos, ix., towards the end. [p. 164, supra.] He declared in a figurative way even by the rod which was to proceed out of the stem of Jesse.3505 3505
Anf-01 ii.ii.xiii Pg 4
Isa. lxvi. 2.
Anf-01 v.iv.vii Pg 9
Isa. lxvi. 2. And do ye also reverence your bishop as Christ Himself, according as the blessed apostles have enjoined you. He that is within the altar is pure, wherefore also he is obedient to the bishop and presbyters: but he that is without is one that does anything apart from the bishop, the presbyters, and the deacons. Such a person is defiled in his conscience, and is worse than an infidel. For what is the bishop but one who beyond all others possesses all power and authority, so far as it is possible for a man to possess it, who according to his ability has been made an imitator of the Christ of God?773 773 Some render, “being a resemblance according to the power of Christ.” And what is the presbytery but a sacred assembly, the counsellors and assessors of the bishop? And what are the deacons but imitators of the angelic powers,774 774 Some read, “imitators of Christ, ministering to the bishop, as Christ to the Father.” fulfilling a pure and blameless ministry unto him, as the holy Stephen did to the blessed James, Timothy and Linus to Paul, Anencletus and Clement to Peter? He, therefore, that will not yield obedience to such, must needs be one utterly without God, an impious man who despises Christ, and depreciates His appointments.
Anf-01 vi.ii.xix Pg 6
Isa. lxvi. 2. All the preceding clauses are given in Cod. Sin. in distinct lines. Thou shalt not be mindful of evil against thy brother. Thou shalt not be of doubtful mind1692 1692
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.v Pg 33.1
Anf-01 ix.iv.xii Pg 12
Mal. iii. 1. who should prepare His way, that is, that he should bear witness of that Light in the spirit and power of Elias.3437 3437
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxiii Pg 5
Mal. iii. 1.
Anf-02 ii.iii.v Pg 8.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 55
Mal. iii. 1: comp. Matt. xi. 10; Mark i. 2; Luke vii. 27. Nor is it a novel practice to the Holy Spirit to call those “angels” whom God has appointed as ministers of His power. For the same John is called not merely an “angel” of Christ, but withal a “lamp” shining before Christ: for David predicts, “I have prepared the lamp for my Christ;”1299 1299
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
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxi Pg 34
Ex. xxxiv. 6, 7.
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxi Pg 34
Ex. xxxiv. 6, 7.
Anf-02 ii.iv.viii Pg 5.2
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 19
Isa. xliv. 5. Now, what plea is wiser and more irresistible than the simple and open5032 5032 Exserta. confession made in a martyr’s cause, who “prevails with God”—which is what “Israel” means?5033 5033
Anf-03 v.x.vii Pg 5
Isa. xliv. 5. O good mother! I myself also wish to be put among the number of her sons, that I may be slain by her; I wish to be slain, that I may become a son. But does she merely murder her sons, or also torture them? For I hear God also, in another passage, say, “I will burn them as gold is burned, and will try them as silver is tried.”8260 8260
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 8
Ps. lxxxvi. 15; cxii. 4; cxlv. 8; Jonah iv. 2. In Jonah you find the signal act of His mercy, which He showed to the praying Ninevites.5685 5685
Anf-03 vi.iv.xxvii Pg 4
[The author seems to have in mind (Hos. xiv. 2) “the calves of our lips.”]
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 10
Mic. vii. 18, 19. Now, if nothing of this sort had been predicted of Christ, I should find in the Creator examples of such a benignity as would hold out to me the promise of similar affections also in the Son of whom He is the Father. I see how the Ninevites obtained forgiveness of their sins from the Creator3769 3769
Anf-01 ix.vii.xvi Pg 4
Ezek. xxxvii. 1, etc. And again he says, “Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will set your graves open, and cause you to come out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall open your sepulchres, that I may bring my people again out of the sepulchres: and I will put my Spirit into you, and ye shall live; and I will place you in your land, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. I have said, and I will do, saith the Lord.”4578 4578
Anf-03 v.viii.xxix Pg 3
Ezek. xxxvii. 1–14.
Anf-03 v.viii.xxix Pg 3
Ezek. xxxvii. 1–14.
Npnf-201 iii.xv.ix Pg 19
Npnf-201 iv.vi.i.xxxviii Pg 9
Anf-03 iv.iv.iv Pg 5
“Sanguinis perditionis:” such is the reading of Oehler and others. If it be correct, probably the phrase “perdition of blood” must be taken as equivalent to “bloody perdition,” after the Hebrew fashion. Compare, for similar instances, Bible:Ezek.22.2">2 Sam. xvi. 7; Ps. v. 6; xxvi. 9; lv. 23; Ezek. xxii. 2, with the marginal readings. But Fr. Junius would read, “Of blood and of perdition”—sanguinis et perditionis. Oehler’s own interpretation of the reading he gives—“blood-shedding”—appears unsatisfactory. repentance is being prepared. Ye who serve stones, and ye who make images of gold, and silver, and wood, and stones and clay, and serve phantoms, and demons, and spirits in fanes,182 182 “In fanis.” This is Oehler’s reading on conjecture. Other readings are—infamis, infamibus, insanis, infernis. and all errors not according to knowledge, shall find no help from them.” But Isaiah183 183
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxxv Pg 0
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxvi Pg 4
Ps. xxiv. Accordingly, it is shown that Solomon is not the Lord of hosts; but when our Christ rose from the dead and ascended to heaven, the rulers in heaven, under appointment of God, are commanded to open the gates of heaven, that He who is King of glory may enter in, and having ascended, may sit on the right hand of the Father until He make the enemies His footstool, as has been made manifest by another Psalm. For when the rulers of heaven saw Him of uncomely and dishonoured appearance, and inglorious, not recognising Him, they inquired, ‘Who is this King of glory?’ And the Holy Spirit, either from the person of His Father, or from His own person, answers them, ‘The Lord of hosts, He is this King of glory.’ For every one will confess that not one of those who presided over the gates of the temple at Jerusalem would venture to say concerning Solomon, though he was so glorious a king, or concerning the ark of testimony, ‘Who is this King of glory?’
Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 32.2
Anf-01 ix.iv.xi Pg 27
Ps. cxxiv. 8. and again: “In His hand are the ends of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are His. For the sea is His, and He did Himself make it; and His hands founded the dry land. Come ye, let us worship and fall down before Him, and weep in the presence of the Lord who made us; for He is the Lord our God.”3418 3418
Anf-01 ix.vi.iii Pg 3
Ps. cxxiv. 8. And Esaias confesses that words were uttered by God, who made heaven and earth, and governs them. He says: “Hear, O heavens; and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken.”3810 3810
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 41
Isa. x. 33. And who are these but the rich? Because they have indeed received their consolation, glory, and honour and a lofty position from their wealth. In Psalm xlviii. He also turns off our care from these and says: “Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, and when his glory is increased: for when he shall die, he shall carry nothing away; nor shall his glory descend along with him.”4021 4021
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 25
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxiii Pg 0
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxiv Pg 0
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxvii Pg 4
Ps. xcix.
Anf-03 v.iii.iii Pg 15
1 Sam. viii. 7. And Moses declares, “For their murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord God.”656 656
Anf-01 ii.ii.xvi Pg 7
Ps. xxii. 6–8. Ye see, beloved, what is the example which has been given us; for if the Lord thus humbled Himself, what shall we do who have through Him come under the yoke of His grace?
Anf-01 viii.iv.xcviii Pg 0
Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 48
It is Ps. xxii. in our Bibles, xxi. in LXX. “They dug,” He says, “my hands and feet”1352 1352
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 23
Ps. xxii. 16, 7, 8. Of what use now is (your tampering with) the testimony of His garments? If you take it as a booty for your false Christ, still all the Psalm (compensates) the vesture of Christ.5142 5142 We append the original of these obscure sentences: “Quo jam testimonium vestimentorum? Habe falsi tui prædam; totus psalmus vestimenta sunt Christi.” The general sense is apparent. If Marcion does suppress the details about Christ’s garments at the cross, to escape the inconvenient proof they afford that Christ is the object of prophecies, yet there are so many other points of agreement between this wonderful Psalm and St. Luke’s history of the crucifixion (not expunged, as it would seem, by the heretic), that they quite compensate for the loss of this passage about the garments (Oehler). But, behold, the very elements are shaken. For their Lord was suffering. If, however, it was their enemy to whom all this injury was done, the heaven would have gleamed with light, the sun would have been even more radiant, and the day would have prolonged its course5143 5143
Anf-03 v.viii.xx Pg 13
Ps. xxii. 8. “He was appraised by the traitor in thirty pieces of silver.”7406 7406
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 52
Jer. xvii. 5. Whereas in Psalm cxvii. it is said: “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man; it is better to trust in the Lord than to place hope in princes.”4032 4032
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 57
See 1 Sam. ii. 6–8, Ps. cxiii. 7, and Luke i. 52. Since, therefore, it is quite consistent in the Creator to pronounce different sentences in the two directions of reward and punishment, we shall have to conclude that there is here no diversity of gods,4858 4858 Divinitatum; “divine powers.” but only a difference in the actual matters4859 4859 Ipsarum materiarum. before us.
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xii Pg 42
1 Sam. ii. 7, 8; Ps. cxlvii. 6; Luke i. 52. Is he then the same God as He who gave Satan power over the person of Job that his “strength might be made perfect in weakness?”5780 5780
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xiv Pg 18
1 Sam. ii. 8. And by Isaiah how He inveighs against the oppressors of the needy! “What mean ye that ye set fire to my vineyard, and that the spoil of the poor is in your houses? Wherefore do ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the face of the needy?”3950 3950
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxviii Pg 30
Comp. 1 Sam. ii. 8 with Ps. cxiii. 7 and Luke i. 52. From Him, therefore, will proceed the parable of the rich man, who flattered himself about the increase of his fields, and to Whom God said: “Thou fool, this night shall they require thy soul of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?”4648 4648
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 30
Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.xxxv Pg 7.1
Anf-03 v.ix.xvi Pg 20
Isa. xl. 28. much more, shall neither die at any time, nor be buried!), and therefore that it was uniformly one God, even the Father, who at all times did Himself the things which were really done by Him through the agency of the Son.
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-01 viii.ii.xl Pg 3
Ps. i., Ps. ii.
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxxvi Pg 5
Ps. i. 3. Again, the righteous is said to flourish like the palm-tree. God appeared from a tree to Abraham, as it is written, near the oak in Mamre. The people found seventy willows and twelve springs after crossing the Jordan.2290 2290
Anf-01 vi.ii.xi Pg 11
Ps. i. 3–6. Mark how He has described at once both the water and the cross. For these words imply, Blessed are they who, placing their trust in the cross, have gone down into the water; for, says He, they shall receive their reward in due time: then He declares, I will recompense them. But now He saith,1601 1601 Cod. Sin. has, “what meaneth?” “Their leaves shall not fade.” This meaneth, that every word which proceedeth out of your mouth in faith and love shall tend to bring conversion and hope to many. Again, another prophet saith, “And the land of Jacob shall be extolled above every land.”1602 1602
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.x Pg 17.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvii Pg 19.1
Anf-03 iv.iv.xv Pg 14
Ps. i. 1–3; xcii. 12–; 15. If you have renounced temples, make not your own gate a temple. I have said too little. If you have renounced stews, clothe not your own house with the appearance of a new brothel.
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xix Pg 17
Ps. i. 3. “He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not taken God’s name in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour, he shall receive blessing from the Lord, and mercy from the God of his salvation.”2937 2937
Anf-03 vi.ii.iv Pg 11
So the Cod. Sin. Hilgenfeld reads, with the Latin, “let us take.” heed in these last days; for the whole [past] time of your faith will profit you nothing, unless now in this wicked time we also withstand coming sources of danger, as becometh the sons of God. That the Black One1478 1478
Anf-03 v.viii.xiii Pg 3
Δίκαιος ὡς φοίνιξ ἀνθήσει, Sept. Ps. xcii. 12.—“like a palm tree” (A.V.). We have here a characteristic way of Tertullian’s quoting a scripture which has even the least bearing on his subject. [See Vol. I. (this series) p. 12, and same volume, p. viii.] that is, shall flourish or revive, from death, from the grave—to teach you to believe that a bodily substance may be recovered even from the fire. Our Lord has declared that we are “better than many sparrows:”7368 7368
Anf-03 iv.iv.xv Pg 14
Ps. i. 1–3; xcii. 12–; 15. If you have renounced temples, make not your own gate a temple. I have said too little. If you have renounced stews, clothe not your own house with the appearance of a new brothel.
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.i Pg 15
Anf-01 ix.vi.iv Pg 3
Ps. cii. 25–28. The cause of the difference in the numbering of the Psalms is that the Septuagint embraces in one psalm—the ninth—the two which form the ninth and tenth in the Hebrew text. pointing out plainly what things they are that pass away, and who it is that doth endure for ever—God, together with His servants. And in like manner Esaias says: “Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heaven has been set together as smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they who dwell therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not pass away.”3832 3832
Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 3
See Gen. xii.–xv. compared with xvii. and Rom. iv. nor yet did he observe the Sabbath. For he had “accepted”1163 1163
Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 5
There is, if the text be genuine, some confusion here. Melchizedek does not appear to have been, in any sense, “subsequent” to Abraham, for he probably was senior to him; and, moreover, Abraham does not appear to have been “already circumcised” carnally when Melchizedek met him. Comp. Gen. xiv. with Gen. xvii. “But again,” (you say) “the son of Moses would upon one occasion have been choked by an angel, if Zipporah,1165 1165
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxii Pg 5
Gen. xxii. 17, Gen. xxviii. 4. All these, therefore, were highly honoured, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will. And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xx Pg 25
Gen. xxii. 17. Therefore “one star differeth from another star in glory.”6119 6119
Anf-03 iv.ix.i Pg 11
See Gen. xxii. 18; and comp. Gal. iii. 16, and the reference in both places. and that1130 1130
Anf-01 vi.ii.vi Pg 34
Gen. i. 28. Who then is able to govern the beasts, or the fishes, or the fowls of heaven? For we ought to perceive that to govern implies authority, so that one should command and rule. If, therefore, this does not exist at present, yet still He has promised it to us. When? When we ourselves also have been made perfect [so as] to become heirs of the covenant of the Lord.1526 1526 These are specimens of the “Gnosis,” or faculty of bringing out the hidden spiritual meaning of Scripture referred to before. Many more such interpretations follow.
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxiii Pg 5
Gen. i. 28. We see,138 138 Or, “let us consider.” then, how all righteous men have been adorned with good works, and how the Lord Himself, adorning Himself with His works, rejoiced. Having therefore such an example, let us without delay accede to His will, and let us work the work of righteousness with our whole strength.
Anf-01 vi.ii.vi Pg 21
Gen. i. 28. These things [were spoken] to the Son. Again, I will show thee how, in respect to us,1513 1513 Cod. Sin. inserts, “the Lord says.” He has accomplished a second fashioning in these last days. The Lord says, “Behold, I will make1514 1514 Cod. Sin. has “I make.” the last like the first.”1515 1515
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxii Pg 3
Gen. i. 26; 28. And that you may not change the [force of the] words just quoted, and repeat what your teachers assert,—either that God said to Himself, ‘Let Us make,’ just as we, when about to do something, oftentimes say to ourselves, ‘Let us make;’ or that God spoke to the elements, to wit, the earth and other similar substances of which we believe man was formed, ‘Let Us make,’—I shall quote again the words narrated by Moses himself, from which we can indisputably learn that [God] conversed with some one who was numerically distinct from Himself, and also a rational Being. These are the words: ‘And God said, Behold, Adam has become as one of us, to know good and evil.’2175 2175
Anf-01 ix.vi.xii Pg 3
Gen. i. 28.
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.x Pg 4.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xxiii Pg 7.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 53.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 232.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 270.1
Anf-03 v.iv.ii.xxix Pg 10
Gen. i. 28. but also, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife;”2681 2681
Anf-03 iv.xi.xxvii Pg 6
Gen. i. 28. Excess, however, has He cursed, in adulteries, and wantonness, and chambering.1698 1698 Lupanaria. Well, now, in this usual function of the sexes which brings together the male and the female in their common intercourse, we know that both the soul and the flesh discharge a duty together: the soul supplies desire, the flesh contributes the gratification of it; the soul furnishes the instigation, the flesh affords the realization. The entire man being excited by the one effort of both natures, his seminal substance is discharged, deriving its fluidity from the body, and its warmth from the soul. Now if the soul in Greek is a word which is synonymous with cold,1699 1699 See above, c. xxv. p. 206. how does it come to pass that the body grows cold after the soul has quitted it? Indeed (if I run the risk of offending modesty even, in my desire to prove the truth), I cannot help asking, whether we do not, in that very heat of extreme gratification when the generative fluid is ejected, feel that somewhat of our soul has gone from us? And do we not experience a faintness and prostration along with a dimness of sight? This, then, must be the soul-producing seed, which arises at once from the out-drip of the soul, just as that fluid is the body-producing seed which proceeds from the drainage of the flesh. Most true are the examples of the first creation. Adam’s flesh was formed of clay. Now what is clay but an excellent moisture, whence should spring the generating fluid? From the breath of God first came the soul. But what else is the breath of God than the vapour of the spirit, whence should spring that which we breathe out through the generative fluid? Forasmuch, therefore, as these two different and separate substances, the clay and the breath, combined at the first creation in forming the individual man, they then both amalgamated and mixed their proper seminal rudiments in one, and ever afterwards communicated to the human race the normal mode of its propagation, so that even now the two substances, although diverse from each other, flow forth simultaneously in a united channel; and finding their way together into their appointed seed-plot, they fertilize with their combined vigour the human fruit out of their respective natures. And inherent in this human product is his own seed, according to the process which has been ordained for every creature endowed with the functions of generation. Accordingly from the one (primeval) man comes the entire outflow and redundance of men’s souls—nature proving herself true to the commandment of God, “Be fruitful, and multiply.”1700 1700
Anf-03 iv.xi.xxvii Pg 9
Gen. i. 28. For in the very preamble of this one production, “Let us make man,”1701 1701
Anf-03 v.v.i Pg 15
Quoting Gen. i. 28, “Be fruitful and multiply” (Rigalt.). and yet despises it in respect of his art.6137 6137 Disregarding the law when it forbids the representation of idols. (Rigalt.). He falsifies by a twofold process—with his cautery and his pen.6138 6138 Et cauterio et stilo. The former instrument was used by the encaustic painters for burning in the wax colours into the ground of their pictures (Westropp’s Handbook of Archæology, p. 219). Tertullian charges Hermogenes with using his encaustic art to the injury of the scriptures, by practically violating their precepts in his artistic works; and with using his pen (stilus) in corrupting the doctrine thereof by his heresy. He is a thorough adulterer, both doctrinally and carnally, since he is rank indeed with the contagion of your marriage-hacks,6139 6139 By the nubentium contagium, Tertullian, in his Montanist rigour, censures those who married more than once. and has also failed in cleaving to the rule of faith as much as the apostle’s own Hermogenes.6140 6140
Anf-03 v.viii.xlv Pg 5
Gen. i. 28. the flesh and the soul have had a simultaneous birth, without any calculable difference in time; so that the two have been even generated together in the womb, as we have shown in our Treatise on the Soul.7583 7583 See ch. xxvii. Contemporaneous in the womb, they are also temporally identical in their birth. The two are no doubt produced by human parents7584 7584 We treat “homines” as a nominative, after Oehler. of two substances, but not at two different periods; rather they are so entirely one, that neither is before the other in point of time. It is more correct (to say), that we are either entirely the old man or entirely the new, for we cannot tell how we can possibly be anything else. But the apostle mentions a very clear mark of the old man. For “put off,” says he, “concerning the former conversation, the old man;”7585 7585
Anf-03 vi.ii.ii Pg 3
Or, “while these things continue, those which respect the Lord rejoice in purity along with them—Wisdom,” etc. For He hath revealed to us by all the prophets that He needs neither sacrifices, nor burnt-offerings, nor oblations, saying thus, “What is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me, saith the Lord? I am full of burnt-offerings, and desire not the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats, not when ye come to appear before Me: for who hath required these things at your hands? Tread no more My courts, not though ye bring with you fine flour. Incense is a vain abomination unto Me, and your new moons and sabbaths I cannot endure.”1458 1458
Anf-01 ix.iv.x Pg 2
Gen. xv. 5. and Him who, by His Son Christ Jesus, has called us to the knowledge of Himself, from the worship of stones, so that those who were not a people were made a people, and she beloved who was not beloved3374 3374
Anf-01 ix.vi.viii Pg 8
Gen. xv. 5. as John the Baptist says: “For God is able from these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.”3873 3873
Anf-01 ii.ii.x Pg 5
Gen. xv. 5, 6; Rom. iv. 3. On account of his faith and hospitality, a son was given him in his old age; and in the exercise of obedience, he offered him as a sacrifice to God on one of the mountains which He showed him.49 49
Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxiv Pg 5
Deut. xxxi. 16–18. ‘This people [shall go a whoring after other gods], and shall forsake Me, and shall break my covenant which I made with them in that day; and I will forsake them, and will turn away My face from them; and they shall be devoured,2228 2228 Literally, “for food.” and many evils and afflictions shall find them out; and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not amongst us, these misfortunes have found us out. And I shall certainly turn away My face from them in that day, on account of all the evils which they have committed, in that they have turned to other gods.’2229 2229 The first conference seems to have ended hereabout. [It occupied two days. But the student must consult the learned note of Kaye (Justin Martyr, p. 20. Rivingtons, London. 1853).]
Anf-03 iv.iv.xx Pg 8
Because Scripture calls idols “vanities” and “vain things.” See 2 Kings xvii. 15, Ps. xxiv. 4, Isa. lix. 4, Deut. xxxii. 21, etc. Whoever, therefore, honours an idol with the name of God, has fallen into idolatry. But if I speak of them as gods, something must be added to make it appear that I do not call them gods. For even the Scripture names “gods,” but adds “their,” viz. “of the nations:” just as David does when he had named “gods,” where he says, “But the gods of the nations are demons.”328 328
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 97
Jer. xxxi. 31, 32. with men, not such as that which He made with the fathers at Mount Horeb, and would give to men a new heart and a new spirit;4335 4335
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Jer. xxxi. 31, 32. ). If, therefore, God proclaimed a new covenant which was to be instituted, and this for a light of the nations, we see and are persuaded that men approach God, leaving their idols and other unrighteousness, through the name of Him who was crucified, Jesus Christ, and abide by their confession even unto death, and maintain piety. Moreover, by the works and by the attendant miracles, it is possible for all to understand that He is the new law, and the new covenant, and the expectation of those who out of every people wait for the good things of God. For the true spiritual Israel, and descendants of Judah, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham (who in uncircumcision was approved of and blessed by God on account of his faith, and called the father of many nations), are we who have been led to God through this crucified Christ, as shall be demonstrated while we proceed.
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.v Pg 9.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 13
Jer. xxxi. 31, 32 (in LXX. ibid. xxxviii. 31, 32); comp. Heb. viii. 8–13. Whence we understand that the coming cessation of the former circumcision then given, and the coming procession of a new law (not such as He had already given to the fathers), are announced: just as Isaiah foretold, saying that in the last days the mount of the Lord and the house of God were to be manifest above the tops of the mounts: “And it shall be exalted,” he says, “above the hills; and there shall come over it all nations; and many shall walk, and say, Come, ascend we unto the mount of the Lord, and unto the house of the God of Jacob,”1173 1173
Anf-03 v.iv.v.i Pg 28
Jer. xxxi. 31, 32, with slight change. He thus shows that the ancient covenant is temporary only, when He indicates its change; also when He promises that it shall be followed by an eternal one. For by Isaiah He says: “Hear me, and ye shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,” adding “the sure mercies of David,”3503 3503
Anf-03 v.iv.ii.xx Pg 10
This quotation, however, is from Jer. xxxi. 32. In like manner by Jeremiah: Make to yourselves a new covenant, “circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart.”2561 2561
Anf-01 ii.ii.xv Pg 7
Ps. xii. 3–5.
Anf-01 v.iii.ix Pg 14
Ps. vi., Ps. xii. (inscrip.). [N.B.—The reference is to the title of these two psalms, as rendered by the LXX. Εἰς τὸ τέλος ὑπὲρ τῆς ὀγδόης.] on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, “whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things,”692 692
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.v Pg 28.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.i Pg 10.1
Anf-01 viii.iv.lix Pg 3
Ex. ii. 23. and so on until, ‘Go and gather the elders of Israel, and thou shalt say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying, I am surely beholding you, and the things which have befallen you in Egypt.’ ”2163 2163
Anf-01 vi.ii.xiv Pg 11
Isa. xlii. 6, 7. Ye perceive,1651 1651 Cod. Sin. has, “we know.” then, whence we have been redeemed. And again, the prophet says, “Behold, I have appointed Thee as a light to the nations, that Thou mightest be for salvation even to the ends of the earth, saith the Lord God that redeemeth thee.”1652 1652
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxvi Pg 2
Isa. xlii. 6, 7. And again: ‘Lift up a standard2014 2014 συσσεισμόν, “a shaking,” is the original reading; but LXX has σύσσημον, a standard or signal, and this most edd. adopt. for the people; for, lo, the Lord has made it heard unto the end of the earth. Say ye to the daughters of Zion, Behold, thy Saviour has come; having His reward, and His work before His face: and He shall call it a holy nation, redeemed by the Lord. And thou shalt be called a city sought out, and not forsaken. Who is this that cometh from Edom? in red garments from Bosor? This that is beautiful in apparel, going up with great strength? I speak righteousness, and the judgment of salvation. Why are Thy garments red, and Thine apparel as from the trodden wine-press? Thou art full of the trodden grape. I have trodden the wine-press all alone, and of the people there is no man with Me; and I have trampled them in fury, and crushed them to the ground, and spilled their blood on the earth. For the day of retribution has come upon them, and the year of redemption is present. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I considered, and none assisted: and My arm delivered; and My fury came on them, and I trampled them in My fury, and spilled their blood on the earth.’ ”2015 2015
Anf-03 iv.ix.xii Pg 5
Isa. xlii. 6, 7, comp. lxi. 1; Luke iv. 14–18. —of ignorance, to wit. And if these blessings accrue through Christ, they will not have been prophesied of another than Him through whom we consider them to have been accomplished.1382 1382
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xx Pg 7
Isa. xlii. 6, 7. If these things are accomplished through Christ, they would not have been designed in prophecy for any other than Him through whom they have their accomplishment. In another passage He also says: “Behold, I have set Him as a testimony to the nations, a prince and commander to the nations; nations which know Thee not shall invoke Thee, and peoples shall run together unto Thee.”3376 3376
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xvii Pg 18
Isa. l. 10. And likewise as a healer: “For,” says he, “He hath taken away our infirmities, and carried our sorrows.”3342 3342
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 34
Isa. l. 10, according to the Septuagint. When therefore He here presents Him with the words, “This is my (beloved) Son,” this clause is of course understood, “whom I have promised.” For if He once promised, and then afterwards says, “This is He,” it is suitable conduct for one who accomplishes His purpose4351 4351 Ejus est exhibentis. that He should utter His voice in proof of the promise which He had formerly made; but unsuitable in one who is amenable to the retort, Can you, indeed, have a right to say, “This is my son,” concerning whom you have given us no previous information,4352 4352 Non præmisisti. Oehler suggests promisisti, “have given us no promise.” any more than you have favoured us with a revelation about your own prior existence? “Hear ye Him,” therefore, whom from the beginning (the Creator) had declared entitled to be heard in the name of a prophet, since it was as a prophet that He had to be regarded by the people. “A prophet,” says Moses, “shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of your sons” (that is, of course, after a carnal descent4353 4353 Censum: Some read sensum, “sense.” ); “unto Him shall ye hearken, as unto me.”4354 4354
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 41
Isa. l. 10. This voice the Father was going Himself to recommend. For, says he,4358 4358
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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.”
Anf-03 v.viii.xxxi Pg 3
Mal. iv. 2, 3. And again, (Isaiah says): “Your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall spring up like the grass,”7491 7491
Anf-01 ix.iii.xxiii Pg 6
Isa. v. 12. But, according to the language [used by the prophet], they ought to be combined, and the day of retribution to follow the [acceptable] year. For the words are, “to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of retribution.” This present time, therefore, in which men are called and saved by the Lord, is properly understood to be denoted by “the acceptable year of the Lord;” and there follows on this “the day of retribution,” that is, the judgment. And the time thus referred to is not called “a year” only, but is also named “a day” both by the prophet and by Paul, of whom the apostle, calling to mind the Scripture, says in the Epistle addressed to the Romans, “As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”3125 3125
Anf-01 ix.vi.iii Pg 15
Isa. v. 12. Lest, therefore, we should incur the same punishment as these men, the Lord reveals [to us] their end; showing at the same time, that if they obeyed Moses and the prophets, they would believe in Him whom these had preached, the Son of God, who rose from the dead, and bestows life upon us; and He shows that all are from one essence, that is, Abraham, and Moses, and the prophets, and also the Lord Himself, who rose from the dead, in whom many believe who are of the circumcision, who do also hear Moses and the prophets announcing the coming of the Son of God. But those who scoff [at the truth] assert that these men were from another essence, and they do not know the first-begotten from the dead; understanding Christ as a distinct being, who continued as if He were impassible, and Jesus, who suffered, as being altogether separate [from Him].
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xviii Pg 27
Isa. v. 11, 12. Now, when I find to what God belong these precepts, whether in their germ or their development, I have no difficulty in knowing to whom the apostle also belongs. But he declares that “wives ought to be in subjection to their husbands:”6028 6028
Anf-03 iv.vi.ix Pg 4
Isa. v. 12. would have added “with crowns,” if this practice had ever had place in the things of God.
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.viii Pg 30.1
Npnf-201 iii.xv.ix Pg 22
Npnf-201 iv.vi.i.xxxviii Pg 12
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxx Pg 16
Isa. ii. 19. “And hath shut to the door,” thereby shutting out the wicked, of course; and when these knock, He will answer, “I know you not whence ye are;” and when they recount how “they have eaten and drunk in His presence,” He will further say to them, “Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”4723 4723
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvi Pg 11
Isa. ii. 19. The whole verse is to the point. Well, but who is the man of sin, the son of perdition,” who must first be revealed before the Lord comes; “who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; who is to sit in the temple of God, and boast himself as being God?”5929 5929
Anf-03 v.v.xxxiv Pg 12
Isa. ii. 19. “But I will dry up the pools;”6499 6499
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Isa. ii. 19. expresses it) “that earth,” which, I suppose, is as yet unshattered? Who has thus early put “Christ’s enemies beneath His feet” (to use the language of David7422 7422
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxv Pg 5
Isa. lxiii. 15 to end, and Isa. lxiv.
Anf-03 vi.vii.iii Pg 3
So Mr. Dodgson; and La Cerda, as quoted by Oehler. See Ps. cxxxi. 1 in LXX., where it is Ps. cxxx. but what is that which, in a certain way, has been grasped by hand9027 9027
Anf-01 v.iii.ix Pg 14
Ps. vi., Ps. xii. (inscrip.). [N.B.—The reference is to the title of these two psalms, as rendered by the LXX. Εἰς τὸ τέλος ὑπὲρ τῆς ὀγδόης.] on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, “whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things,”692 692
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 61.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 63.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.l Pg 5
Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. This blessedness cometh upon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Anf-01 ix.vii.xviii Pg 12
Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. pointing out thus that remission of sins which follows upon His advent, by which “He has destroyed the handwriting” of our debt, and “fastened it to the cross;”4599 4599
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 247.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xv Pg 11.1
Anf-03 v.x.vi Pg 5
Ps. xxxii. 1; Rom. iv. 7, etc. For, strictly speaking, there cannot any longer be reckoned ought against the martyrs, by whom in the baptism (of blood) life itself is laid down. Thus, “love covers the multitude of sins;”8255 8255
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.xviii Pg 7
Ps. li. 1–17.
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvi Pg 12.1
Anf-03 vi.vii.iii Pg 3
So Mr. Dodgson; and La Cerda, as quoted by Oehler. See Ps. cxxxi. 1 in LXX., where it is Ps. cxxx. but what is that which, in a certain way, has been grasped by hand9027 9027
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xvii Pg 10
2 Sam. xii. 13. which also restored the house of Israel as often as it condemned it, and addressed to it consolation no less frequently than reproof. Do not therefore look at God simply as Judge, but turn your attention also to examples of His conduct as the Most Good.2906 2906 Optimi. Noting Him, as you do, when He takes vengeance, consider Him likewise when He shows mercy.2907 2907 Indulget. In the scale, against His severity place His gentleness. When you shall have discovered both qualities to co-exist in the Creator, you will find in Him that very circumstance which induces you to think there is another God. Lastly, come and examine into His doctrine, discipline, precepts, and counsels. You will perhaps say that there are equally good prescriptions in human laws. But Moses and God existed before all your Lycurguses and Solons. There is not one after-age2908 2908 Posteritas. which does not take from primitive sources. At any rate, my Creator did not learn from your God to issue such commandments as: Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not covet what is thy neighbour’s; honour thy father and thy mother; and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. To these prime counsels of innocence, chastity, and justice, and piety, are also added prescriptions of humanity, as when every seventh year slaves are released for liberty;2909 2909
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 13
2 Sam. xii. 13. how king Ahab in like manner, the husband of Jezebel, guilty of idolatry and of the blood of Naboth, obtained pardon because of his repentance;3772 3772
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 12
2 Sam. xii. 13. —preferring, indeed, the sinner’s repentance to his death, of course because of His gracious attribute of mercy.5689 5689
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 246.1
Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 31.3
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xiv Pg 14
Ps. lxxii. 12, 13, 14. Again: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, even all the nations that forget God; because the needy shall not alway be forgotten; the endurance of the poor shall not perish for ever.”3946 3946
Anf-01 ii.ii.lvi Pg 9
Job v. 17–26. Ye see, beloved, that protection is afforded to those that are chastened of the Lord; for since God is good, He corrects us, that we may be admonished by His holy chastisement.
ecf19Oz116z86; 119:125 143:12
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Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 224.3
Anf-03 iv.iv.x Pg 8
Bible:Zech.13.2">Ex. xxiii. 13; Josh. xxiii. 7; Ps. xvi. 4; Hos. ii. 17; Zech. xiii. 2. and this name228 228 i.e., the name of God. to be conferred on vanity.229 229 i.e., on an idol, which, as Isaiah says, is “vanity.” Hence the devil gets men’s early faith built up from the beginnings of their erudition. Inquire whether he who catechizes about idols commit idolatry. But when a believer learns these things, if he is already capable of understanding what idolatry is, he neither receives nor allows them; much more if he is not yet capable. Or, when he begins to understand, it behoves him first to understand what he has previously learned, that is, touching God and the faith. Therefore he will reject those things, and will not receive them; and will be as safe as one who from one who knows it not, knowingly accepts poison, but does not drink it. To him necessity is attributed as an excuse, because he has no other way to learn. Moreover, the not teaching literature is as much easier than the not learning, as it is easier, too, for the pupil not to attend, than for the master not to frequent, the rest of the defilements incident to the schools from public and scholastic solemnities.
Anf-03 v.ix.xxxiii Pg 28
See Bull’s Works, Vol. V., p. 381. I value it chiefly because it proves that the Greek Testament, elsewhere says, disjointedly, what is collected into 1 John v. 7. It is, therefore, Holy Scripture in substance, if not in the letter. What seems to me important, however, is the balance it gives to the whole context, and the defective character of the grammar and logic, if it be stricken out. In the Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate of the Old Testament we have a precisely similar case. Refer to Psa. xiii., alike in the Latin and the Greek, as compared with our English Version.8214 8214
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.x Pg 26.1
107:41 *marg:
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 27.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vii.xii Pg 65.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 164.2
Anf-03 vi.vii.xiv Pg 4
Job. See Job i. and ii. —whom neither the driving away of his cattle nor those riches of his in sheep, nor the sweeping away of his children in one swoop of ruin, nor, finally, the agony of his own body in (one universal) wound, estranged from the patience and the faith which he had plighted to the Lord; whom the devil smote with all his might in vain. For by all his pains he was not drawn away from his reverence for God; but he has been set up as an example and testimony to us, for the thorough accomplishment of patience as well in spirit as in flesh, as well in mind as in body; in order that we succumb neither to damages of our worldly goods, nor to losses of those who are dearest, nor even to bodily afflictions. What a bier9171 9171 “Feretrum”—for carrying trophies in a triumph, the bodies of the dead, and their effigies, etc. for the devil did God erect in the person of that hero! What a banner did He rear over the enemy of His glory, when, at every bitter message, that man uttered nothing out of his mouth but thanks to God, while he denounced his wife, now quite wearied with ills, and urging him to resort to crooked remedies! How did God smile,9172 9172 98:1 144:9 149:1
Anf-01 ix.vi.x Pg 5
Isa. xlii. 10, quoted from memory. And Jeremiah says: “Behold, I will make a new covenant, not as I made with your fathers”3903 3903
Anf-02 vi.ii.i Pg 22.1
Anf-01 v.iii.ix Pg 14
Ps. vi., Ps. xii. (inscrip.). [N.B.—The reference is to the title of these two psalms, as rendered by the LXX. Εἰς τὸ τέλος ὑπὲρ τῆς ὀγδόης.] on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, “whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things,”692 692
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 61.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 63.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.l Pg 5
Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. This blessedness cometh upon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus Christ our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Anf-01 ix.vii.xviii Pg 12
Ps. xxxii. 1, 2. pointing out thus that remission of sins which follows upon His advent, by which “He has destroyed the handwriting” of our debt, and “fastened it to the cross;”4599 4599
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 247.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xv Pg 11.1
Anf-03 v.x.vi Pg 5
Ps. xxxii. 1; Rom. iv. 7, etc. For, strictly speaking, there cannot any longer be reckoned ought against the martyrs, by whom in the baptism (of blood) life itself is laid down. Thus, “love covers the multitude of sins;”8255 8255
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 6.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.xviii Pg 7
Ps. li. 1–17.
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvi Pg 12.1
Anf-03 vi.vii.iii Pg 3
So Mr. Dodgson; and La Cerda, as quoted by Oehler. See Ps. cxxxi. 1 in LXX., where it is Ps. cxxx. but what is that which, in a certain way, has been grasped by hand9027 9027
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xvii Pg 10
2 Sam. xii. 13. which also restored the house of Israel as often as it condemned it, and addressed to it consolation no less frequently than reproof. Do not therefore look at God simply as Judge, but turn your attention also to examples of His conduct as the Most Good.2906 2906 Optimi. Noting Him, as you do, when He takes vengeance, consider Him likewise when He shows mercy.2907 2907 Indulget. In the scale, against His severity place His gentleness. When you shall have discovered both qualities to co-exist in the Creator, you will find in Him that very circumstance which induces you to think there is another God. Lastly, come and examine into His doctrine, discipline, precepts, and counsels. You will perhaps say that there are equally good prescriptions in human laws. But Moses and God existed before all your Lycurguses and Solons. There is not one after-age2908 2908 Posteritas. which does not take from primitive sources. At any rate, my Creator did not learn from your God to issue such commandments as: Thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not commit adultery; thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not bear false witness; thou shalt not covet what is thy neighbour’s; honour thy father and thy mother; and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. To these prime counsels of innocence, chastity, and justice, and piety, are also added prescriptions of humanity, as when every seventh year slaves are released for liberty;2909 2909
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 13
2 Sam. xii. 13. how king Ahab in like manner, the husband of Jezebel, guilty of idolatry and of the blood of Naboth, obtained pardon because of his repentance;3772 3772
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 12
2 Sam. xii. 13. —preferring, indeed, the sinner’s repentance to his death, of course because of His gracious attribute of mercy.5689 5689
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 246.1
Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 31.3
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xiv Pg 14
Ps. lxxii. 12, 13, 14. Again: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, even all the nations that forget God; because the needy shall not alway be forgotten; the endurance of the poor shall not perish for ever.”3946 3946
Anf-01 ii.ii.lvi Pg 9
Job v. 17–26. Ye see, beloved, that protection is afforded to those that are chastened of the Lord; for since God is good, He corrects us, that we may be admonished by His holy chastisement.
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Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 32
Isa. i. 8. With what constancy has He also, in Psalm xxx., laboured to present to us the very Christ! He calls with a loud voice to the Father, “Into Thine hands I commend my spirit,”5151 5151
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiii Pg 5
Isa. lvii. 16. Thus does he attribute the Spirit as peculiar to God which in the last times He pours forth upon the human race by the adoption of sons; but [he shows] that breath was common throughout the creation, and points it out as something created. Now what has been made is a different thing from him who makes it. The breath, then, is temporal, but the Spirit eternal. The breath, too, increases [in strength] for a short period, and continues for a certain time; after that it takes its departure, leaving its former abode destitute of breath. But when the Spirit pervades the man within and without, inasmuch as it continues there, it never leaves him. “But that is not first which is spiritual,” says the apostle, speaking this as if with reference to us human beings; “but that is first which is animal, afterwards that which is spiritual,”4534 4534
Anf-03 iv.xi.xi Pg 6
Tertullian’s reading of Isa. lvii. 16. And again: “He giveth breath unto the people that are on the earth, and Spirit to them that walk thereon.”1565 1565
Anf-03 v.v.xxxii Pg 14
Flatum: “breath;” so LXX. of Isa. lvii. 16. In like manner the same Wisdom says of the waters, “Also when He made the fountains strong, things which6468 6468 Fontes, quæ. are under the sky, I was fashioning6469 6469 Modulans. them along with Him.”6470 6470
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 10
Mic. vii. 18, 19. Now, if nothing of this sort had been predicted of Christ, I should find in the Creator examples of such a benignity as would hold out to me the promise of similar affections also in the Son of whom He is the Father. I see how the Ninevites obtained forgiveness of their sins from the Creator3769 3769
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.vii Pg 8
See Isa. lii. 14; liii. 3, 4. “placed by the Father as a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence;”3186 3186
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xvii Pg 7
Sentences out of Isa. lii. 14 and liii. 2, etc. Similarly the Father addressed the Son just before: “Inasmuch as many will be astonished at Thee, so also will Thy beauty be without glory from men.”3331 3331
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xvii Pg 8
Isa. lii. 14. For although, in David’s words, He is fairer than the children of men,”3332 3332
Anf-01 ix.vii.xxxii Pg 10
Ps. xxiii. 4. where the souls of the dead were, yet afterwards arose in the body, and after the resurrection was taken up [into heaven], it is manifest that the souls of His disciples also, upon whose account the Lord underwent these things, shall go away into the invisible place allotted to them by God, and there remain until the resurrection, awaiting that event; then receiving their bodies, and rising in their entirety, that is bodily, just as the Lord arose, they shall come thus into the presence of God. “For no disciple is above the Master, but every one that is perfect shall be as his Master.”4718 4718
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.vii Pg 43.1
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxvi Pg 5
Job xix. 25, 26.
Anf-02 v.iii.xvi Pg 2.1
2027 De consilio diffidentiæ. or from a desire of entering on the contest2028 2028 Constitutionis, “prima causarum conflictio,”—a term of the law courts. in some other way, were there not reasons on my side, especially this, that our faith owes deference2029 2029 Obsequium. to the apostle, who forbids us to enter on “questions,” or to lend our ears to new-fangled statements,2030 2030
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxvi Pg 5
Job xix. 25, 26.
Anf-01 ix.vii.xiii Pg 5
Isa. lvii. 16. Thus does he attribute the Spirit as peculiar to God which in the last times He pours forth upon the human race by the adoption of sons; but [he shows] that breath was common throughout the creation, and points it out as something created. Now what has been made is a different thing from him who makes it. The breath, then, is temporal, but the Spirit eternal. The breath, too, increases [in strength] for a short period, and continues for a certain time; after that it takes its departure, leaving its former abode destitute of breath. But when the Spirit pervades the man within and without, inasmuch as it continues there, it never leaves him. “But that is not first which is spiritual,” says the apostle, speaking this as if with reference to us human beings; “but that is first which is animal, afterwards that which is spiritual,”4534 4534
Anf-03 iv.xi.xi Pg 6
Tertullian’s reading of Isa. lvii. 16. And again: “He giveth breath unto the people that are on the earth, and Spirit to them that walk thereon.”1565 1565
Anf-03 v.v.xxxii Pg 14
Flatum: “breath;” so LXX. of Isa. lvii. 16. In like manner the same Wisdom says of the waters, “Also when He made the fountains strong, things which6468 6468 Fontes, quæ. are under the sky, I was fashioning6469 6469 Modulans. them along with Him.”6470 6470 *marg:
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xxiv Pg 37
Isa. lx. 8. —that is, simply like a dove.3470 3470
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xv Pg 19
Isa. lx. 8. Now, as Christ has prepared for us this ascension into heaven, He must be the Christ of whom Amos5909 5909 Oehler and Fr. Junius here read Amos, but all the other readings give Hosea; but see above, book iii. chap. xxiv., where Amos was read by all. spoke: “It is He who builds His ascent up to the heavens,”5910 5910 Amos ix. 6. even for Himself and His people. Now, from whom shall I expect (the fulfilment of) all this, except from Him whom I have heard give the promise thereof? What “spirit” does he forbid us to “quench,” and what “prophesyings” to “despise?”5911 5911
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.x Pg 12.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xi Pg 26.1
Anf-01 ix.vii.xv Pg 3
Gen. ix. 5, 6, LXX. and again, “Whosoever will shed man’s blood,4565 4565 One of the mss. reads here: Sanguis pro sanguine ejus effundetur. it shall be shed for his blood.” In like manner, too, did the Lord say to those who should afterwards shed His blood, “All righteous blood shall be required which is shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.”4566 4566
Anf-03 v.viii.xxviii Pg 8
Gen. ix. 5. Now nothing is required except that which is demanded back again, and nothing is thus demanded except that which is to be given up; and that will of course be given up, which shall be demanded and required on the ground of vengeance. But indeed there cannot possibly be punishment of that which never had any existence. Existence, however, it will have, when it is restored in order to be punished. To the flesh, therefore, applies everything which is declared respecting the blood, for without the flesh there cannot be blood. The flesh will be raised up in order that the blood may be punished. There are, again, some statements (of Scripture) so plainly made as to be free from all obscurity of allegory, and yet they strongly require7487 7487 Sitiant. their very simplicity to be interpreted. There is, for instance, that passage in Isaiah: “I will kill, and I will make alive.”7488 7488
Anf-03 v.viii.xxxix Pg 9
Gen. ix. 5, 6. He declared it then to be of such a character as the Pharisees had admitted it, and such as the Lord had Himself maintained it, and such too as the Sadducees refused to believe it—such refusal leading them indeed to an absolute rejection of the whole verity. Nor had the Athenians previously understood Paul to announce any other resurrection.7542 7542
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.viii Pg 12.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.vii Pg 10.1
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 176
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 78.1
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Anf-01 ix.iv.xix Pg 40
Deut. xxxii. 4. But if, not having been made flesh, He did appear as if flesh, His work was not a true one. But what He did appear, that He also was: God recapitulated in Himself the ancient formation of man, that He might kill sin, deprive death of its power, and vivify man; and therefore His works are true.
Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 9
Isa. i. 15. and again, “Woe! sinful nation; a people full of sins; wicked sons; ye have quite forsaken God, and have provoked unto indignation the Holy One of Israel.”1169 1169
Anf-03 vi.iv.xiv Pg 5
Isa. i. 15. for fear Christ should utterly shudder. We, however, not only raise, but even expand them; and, taking our model from the Lord’s passion8849 8849 i.e. from the expansion of the hands on the cross. even in prayer we confess8850 8850 Or, “give praise.” to Christ.
Anf-01 ii.ii.viii Pg 6
Isa. i. 16–20. Desiring, therefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance, He has, by His almighty will, established [these declarations].
Anf-01 viii.ii.xliv Pg 3
Isa. i. 16, etc. And that expression, “The sword shall devour you,” does not mean that the disobedient shall be slain by the sword, but the sword of God is fire, of which they who choose to do wickedly become the fuel. Wherefore He says, “The sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.” And if He had spoken concerning a sword that cuts and at once despatches, He would not have said, shall devour. And so, too, Plato, when he says, “The blame is his who chooses, and God is blameless,”1858 1858 Plato, Rep. x. [On this remarkable passage refer to Biog. Note above. See, also, brilliant note of the sophist De Maistre, Œuvres, ii. p. 105. Ed. Paris, 1853.] took this from the prophet Moses and uttered it. For Moses is more ancient than all the Greek writers. And whatever both philosophers and poets have said concerning the immortality of the soul, or punishments after death, or contemplation of things heavenly, or doctrines of the like kind, they have received such suggestions from the prophets as have enabled them to understand and interpret these things. And hence there seem to be seeds of truth among all men; but they are charged with not accurately understanding [the truth] when they assert contradictories. So that what we say about future events being foretold, we do not say it as if they came about by a fatal necessity; but God foreknowing all that shall be done by all men, and it being His decree that the future actions of men shall all be recompensed according to their several value, He foretells by the Spirit of prophecy that He will bestow meet rewards according to the merit of the actions done, always urging the human race to effort and recollection, showing that He cares and provides for men. But by the agency of the devils death has been decreed against those who read the books of Hystaspes, or of the Sibyl,1859 1859 [On the Orphica and Sibyllina, see Bull, Works, vol. vi. pp. 291–298.] or of the prophets, that through fear they may prevent men who read them from receiving the knowledge of the good, and may retain them in slavery to themselves; which, however, they could not always effect. For not only do we fearlessly read them, but, as you see, bring them for your inspection, knowing that their contents will be pleasing to all. And if we persuade even a few, our gain will be very great; for, as good husbandmen, we shall receive the reward from the Master.
Anf-01 ix.vi.xlii Pg 15
Isa. i. 16. Thus, no doubt, since they had transgressed and sinned in the same manner, so did they receive the same reproof as did the Sodomites. But when they should be converted and come to repentance, and cease from evil, they should have power to become the sons of God, and to receive the inheritance of immortality which is given by Him. For this reason, therefore, He has termed those “angels of the devil,” and “children of the wicked one,”4448 4448
Anf-01 viii.ii.lxi Pg 4
Isa. i. 16–20.
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.xii Pg 21.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 116.1
Anf-02 iv.ii.iii.xii Pg 2.1
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xix Pg 6
Isa. i. 16, 17. be fond of the divine expostulations:2926 2926
Anf-01 vi.ii.xi Pg 8
Isa. xxxiii. 16. Cod. Sin. has, “thou that dwell.” Furthermore, what saith He in reference to the Son? “His water is sure;1598 1598 Cod. Sin. entirely omits the question given above, and joins “the water is sure” to the former sentence. ye shall see the King in His glory, and your soul shall meditate on the fear of the Lord.”1599
Anf-01 vi.ii.xi Pg 10
Isa. xxxiii. 16–18. And again He saith in another prophet, “The man who doeth these things shall be like a tree planted by the courses of waters, which shall yield its fruit in due season; and his leaf shall not fade, and all that he doeth shall prosper. Not so are the ungodly, not so, but even as chaff, which the wind sweeps away from the face of the earth. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in judgment, nor sinners in the counsel of the just; for the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”1600 1600
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 49
Isa. xxxiii. 14–16, according to the Septuagint, which has but slight resemblance to the Hebrew. Now, although this everlasting abode is promised, and the ascending stories (or steps) to heaven are built by the Creator, who further promises that the seed of Abraham shall be even as the stars of heaven, by virtue certainly of the heavenly promise, why may it not be possible,4850 4850 Cur non capiat. without any injury to that promise, that by Abraham’s bosom is meant some temporary receptacle of faithful souls, wherein is even now delineated an image of the future, and where is given some foresight of the glory4851 4851 Candida quædam prospiciatur: where candida is a noun substantive (see above, chap. vii. p. 353). of both judgments? If so, you have here, O heretics, during your present lifetime, a warning that Moses and the prophets declare one only God, the Creator, and His only Christ, and how that both awards of everlasting punishment and eternal salvation rest with Him, the one only God, who kills and who makes alive. Well, but the admonition, says Marcion, of our God from heaven has commanded us not to hear Moses and the prophets, but Christ; Hear Him is the command.4852 4852
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxvii Pg 8
Dan. xii. 3. Thus, then, I have shown it to be,4156 4156 The text and punctuation are here in great uncertainty, and very different views of both are taken by the editors. if any one read the Scriptures. For thus it was that the Lord discoursed with the disciples after His resurrection from the dead, proving to them from the Scriptures themselves “that Christ must suffer, and enter into His glory, and that remission of sins should be preached in His name throughout all the world.”4157 4157
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxii Pg 2
Ps. xxxiv. 11–17. “Many are the stripes [appointed for] the wicked; but mercy shall compass those about who hope in the Lord.”97 97
Anf-01 vi.ii.ix Pg 6
Ps. xxxiv. 11–13. The first clause of this sentence is wanting in Cod. Sin. And again He saith, “Hear, O heaven, and give ear, O earth, for God1553 1553 Cod. Sin. has “Lord.” hath spoken.”1554
Anf-02 vi.ii.ix Pg 22.1
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Anf-02 vi.iv.vii.xiii Pg 4.1
Anf-03 v.ix.xi Pg 12
Ps. lxxi. 18. Also to the same purport in another Psalm: “O Lord, how are they increased that trouble me!”7885 7885 *title
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