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PARALLEL HISTORY BIBLE - Job 4:17


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Shall man be justified in comparison of God, or shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

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Job 4:17

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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


Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 28


Anf-01 ii.ii.xvii Pg 5
Job xiv. 4, 5. [Septuagint.]

Moses was called faithful in all God’s house;76

76


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xi Pg 2.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 229.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.vii Pg 14.2


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxvi Pg 4
Comp. Ps. iii. 6.

and again, Job says, “Thou shalt raise up this flesh of mine, which has suffered all these things.”108

108


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxii Pg 10
Ps. iii. 6.

And because He used thus to act while He dwelt and lived among us, He says again, “And my sleep became sweet unto me.”4237

4237 107:41


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 65.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.iii Pg 14.1


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 8
1 Kings x. 1.

she whom the Lord also referred to as one who should rise up in the judgment with the nations of those men who do hear His words, and do not believe in Him, and should condemn them, inasmuch as she submitted herself to the wisdom announced by the servant of God, while these men despised that wisdom which proceeded directly from the Son of God. For Solomon was a servant, but Christ is indeed the Son of God, and the Lord of Solomon. While, therefore, he served God without blame, and ministered to His dispensations, then was he glorified: but when he took wives from all nations, and permitted them to set up idols in Israel, the Scripture spake thus concerning him: “And King Solomon was a lover of women, and he took to himself foreign women; and it came to pass, when Solomon was old, his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God. And the foreign women turned away his heart after strange gods. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord: he did not walk after the Lord, as did David his father. And the Lord was angry with Solomon; for his heart was not perfect with the Lord, as was the heart of David his father.”4181

4181


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 9
1 Kings xi. 1.

The Scripture has thus sufficiently reproved him, as the presbyter remarked, in order that no flesh may glory in the sight of the Lord.


Anf-03 iv.ix.iv Pg 9
I am not acquainted with any such passage. Oehler refers to Isa. xlix. in his margin, but gives no verse, and omits to notice this passage of the present treatise in his index.

Thus, therefore, before this temporal sabbath, there was withal an eternal sabbath foreshown and foretold; just as before the carnal circumcision there was withal a spiritual circumcision foreshown. In short, let them teach us, as we have already premised, that Adam observed the sabbath; or that Abel, when offering to God a holy victim, pleased Him by a religious reverence for the sabbath; or that Enoch, when translated, had been a keeper of the sabbath; or that Noah the ark-builder observed, on account of the deluge, an immense sabbath; or that Abraham, in observance of the sabbath, offered Isaac his son; or that Melchizedek in his priesthood received the law of the sabbath.


Anf-01 viii.ii.xl Pg 3
Ps. i., Ps. ii.


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 27.1


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 27.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiii Pg 8.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 51.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 51.1


Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 14.1


Anf-01 v.vii.i Pg 6
Isa. v. 26, Isa. xlix. 22.

for all ages, through His resurrection, to all His holy and faithful [followers], whether among Jews or Gentiles, in the one body of His Church.


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-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-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 125.1


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 8
1 Kings x. 1.

she whom the Lord also referred to as one who should rise up in the judgment with the nations of those men who do hear His words, and do not believe in Him, and should condemn them, inasmuch as she submitted herself to the wisdom announced by the servant of God, while these men despised that wisdom which proceeded directly from the Son of God. For Solomon was a servant, but Christ is indeed the Son of God, and the Lord of Solomon. While, therefore, he served God without blame, and ministered to His dispensations, then was he glorified: but when he took wives from all nations, and permitted them to set up idols in Israel, the Scripture spake thus concerning him: “And King Solomon was a lover of women, and he took to himself foreign women; and it came to pass, when Solomon was old, his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God. And the foreign women turned away his heart after strange gods. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord: he did not walk after the Lord, as did David his father. And the Lord was angry with Solomon; for his heart was not perfect with the Lord, as was the heart of David his father.”4181

4181


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 9
1 Kings xi. 1.

The Scripture has thus sufficiently reproved him, as the presbyter remarked, in order that no flesh may glory in the sight of the Lord.


Anf-03 iv.ix.iv Pg 9
I am not acquainted with any such passage. Oehler refers to Isa. xlix. in his margin, but gives no verse, and omits to notice this passage of the present treatise in his index.

Thus, therefore, before this temporal sabbath, there was withal an eternal sabbath foreshown and foretold; just as before the carnal circumcision there was withal a spiritual circumcision foreshown. In short, let them teach us, as we have already premised, that Adam observed the sabbath; or that Abel, when offering to God a holy victim, pleased Him by a religious reverence for the sabbath; or that Enoch, when translated, had been a keeper of the sabbath; or that Noah the ark-builder observed, on account of the deluge, an immense sabbath; or that Abraham, in observance of the sabbath, offered Isaac his son; or that Melchizedek in his priesthood received the law of the sabbath.


Anf-01 viii.ii.xl Pg 3
Ps. i., Ps. ii.


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 27.1


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 27.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiii Pg 8.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 51.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 51.1


Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 14.1


Anf-01 v.vii.i Pg 6
Isa. v. 26, Isa. xlix. 22.

for all ages, through His resurrection, to all His holy and faithful [followers], whether among Jews or Gentiles, in the one body of His Church.


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvi Pg 8.1


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-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 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-01 v.xv.ii Pg 6
Gen. v. 1, Gen. ix. 6.

And that [the Son of God] was to be made man [Moses shows when] he says, “A prophet shall the Lord raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me.”1223

1223


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-03 iv.iv.xv Pg 6
See Gen. i. 26, 27; ix. 6; and comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7.

to God; so as to render to Cæsar indeed money, to God yourself. Otherwise, what will be God’s, if all things are Cæsar’s? “Then,” do you say, “the lamps before my doors, and the laurels on my posts are an honour to God?” They are there of course, not because they are an honour to God, but to him who is honour in God’s stead by ceremonial observances of that kind, so far as is manifest, saving the religious performance, which is in secret appertaining to demons. For we ought to be sure if there are any whose notice it escapes through ignorance of this world’s literature, that there are among the Romans even gods of entrances; Cardea (Hinge-goddess), called after hinges, and Forculus (Door-god) after doors, and Limentinus (Threshold-god) after the threshold, and Janus himself (Gate-god) after the gate: and of course we know that, though names be empty and feigned, yet, when they are drawn down into superstition, demons and every unclean spirit seize them for themselves, through the bond of consecration. Otherwise demons have no name individually, but they there find a name where they find also a token. Among the Greeks likewise we read of Apollo Thyræus, i.e. of the door, and the Antelii, or Anthelii, demons, as presiders over entrances. These things, therefore, the Holy Spirit foreseeing from the beginning, fore-chanted, through the most ancient prophet Enoch, that even entrances would come into superstitious use. For we see too that other entrances280

280 The word is the same as that for “the mouth” of a river, etc. Hence Oehler supposes the “entrances” or “mouths” here referred to to be the mouths of fountains, where nymphs were supposed to dwell. Nympha is supposed to be the same word as Lympha. See Hor. Sat. i. 5, 97; and Macleane’s note.

are adored in the baths. But if there are beings which are adored in entrances, it is to them that both the lamps and the laurels will pertain. To an idol you will have done whatever you shall have done to an entrance. In this place I call a witness on the authority also of God; because it is not safe to suppress whatever may have been shown to one, of course for the sake of all. I know that a brother was severely chastised, the same night, through a vision, because on the sudden announcement of public rejoicings his servants had wreathed his gates.  And yet himself had not wreathed, or commanded them to be wreathed; for he had gone forth from home before, and on his return had reprehended the deed.  So strictly are we appraised with God in matters of this kind, even with regard to the discipline of our family.281

281 [He seems to refer to some Providential event, perhaps announced in a dream, not necessarily out of the course of common occurrences.]

Therefore, as to what relates to the honours due to kings or emperors, we have a prescript sufficient, that it behoves us to be in all obedience, according to the apostle’s precept,282

282


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 13
Isa. xi. 4.

and slaying the impious with the breath of His lips, and having a fan in His hands, and cleansing His floor, and gathering the wheat indeed into His barn, but burning the chaff with unquenchable fire.4265

4265


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.vii Pg 37.1


Anf-02 ii.ii.ii Pg 24.2


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 vi.ii.vi Pg 2
Isa. l. 8.

“Woe unto you, for ye shall all wax old, like a garment, and the moth shall eat you up.”1494

1494


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 94
Isa. l. 8, 9 (loosely quoted).

and, “Woe unto you, for ye shall wax old as doth a garment, and the moth shall eat you up;” and, “All flesh shall be humbled, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in the highest,”4333

4333


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 62
Ps. xlv. 3, 4.

And whatever other things of a like nature are spoken regarding Him, these indicated that beauty and splendour which exist in His kingdom, along with the transcendent and pre-eminent exaltation [belonging] to all who are under His sway, that those who hear might desire to be found there, doing such things as are pleasing to God. Again, there are those who say, “He is a man, and who shall know him?”4303

4303


Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxviii Pg 0


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 3.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xv Pg 5.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 34
Ps. xlv. 4 (xliv. 5 in LXX.).

Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles?  See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,—that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened1279

1279


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 6
Ps. xlv. 4.

But who shall produce these results with the sword, and not their opposites rather—deceit, and harshness, and injury—which, it must be confessed, are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore, whether that is not some other sword, which has so different an action. Now the Apostle John, in the Apocalypse, describes a sword which proceeded from the mouth of God as “a doubly sharp, two-edged one.”3290

3290


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 12
Ps. xlv. 4, but changed.

even the might of Thy spiritual grace, whereby the knowledge of Christ is spread. “Thine arrows are sharp;”3296

3296


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.x Pg 4.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.lii Pg 4
Ps. l. 14, 15.

For “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”235

235


Anf-01 ix.vi.xviii Pg 8
Ps. l. 14, 15.

rejecting, indeed, those things by which sinners imagined they could propitiate God, and showing that He does Himself stand in need of nothing; but He exhorts and advises them to those things by which man is justified and draws nigh to God. This same declaration does Esaias make: “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the Lord. I am full.”4014

4014


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvii Pg 7.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 6.1


Anf-03 v.viii.xxx Pg 1
Chapter XXX.—This Vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Dead.  A Chronological Error of Our Author, Who Supposes that Ezekiel in His Ch. XXXI. Prophesied Before the Captivity.


Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 23.1
136:16


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 50
Isa. xxxv. 8, 9, Sept.

he points out the way of faith, by which we shall reach to God; and then to this way of faith he promises this utter crippling4462

4462 Evacuationem.

and subjugation of all noxious animals.  Lastly, you may discover the suitable times of the promise, if you read what precedes the passage: “Be strong, ye weak hands and ye feeble knees: then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear; then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be articulate.”4463

4463


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 3
Isa. xxxv. 10.

Well, there is nothing eternal until after the resurrection. “And sorrow and sighing,” continues he, “shall flee away.”7729

7729


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 4
Ver. 10.

The angel echoes the same to John: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;”7730

7730


Anf-01 v.v.viii Pg 5
Ps. cxvi. 12.

Now God, even the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, shall reveal these things to you, [so that ye shall know] that I speak truly. And do ye pray along with me, that I may attain my aim in the Holy Spirit. I have not written to you according to the flesh, but according to the will of God. If I shall suffer, ye have loved me; but if I am rejected, ye have hated me.


Anf-01 vi.ii.vi Pg 10
Ps. xxii. 17, Ps. cxviii. 12.

and “upon my garment they cast lots.”1502

1502


Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxvii Pg 7.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 25
Or, perhaps, “not affected, as a body, with human sufferings;” in allusion to such passages as Deut. viii. 4; xxix. 5; Neh. ix. 21.

meats, but fed on “angel’s loaves1185

1185


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 32
Deut. viii. 12–14.

In similar terms, when king Hezekiah became proud of his treasures, and gloried in them rather than in God before those who had come on an embassy from Babylon,4012

4012 Tertullian says, ex Perside.

(the Creator) breaks forth4013

4013 Insilit.

against him by the mouth of Isaiah:  “Behold, the days come when all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store, shall be carried to Babylon.”4014

4014


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 52
Comp. Deut. viii. 12–14.

Some places there were in Jerusalem where to teach; other places outside Jerusalem whither to retire5064

5064


Anf-01 viii.iv.xx Pg 7
Deut. xxxii. 6; 20.


Anf-01 ix.vi.xi Pg 12
Deut. xxxii. 6.

And again, he indicates that He who from the beginning founded and created them, the Word, who also redeems and vivifies us in the last times, is shown as hanging on the tree, and they will not believe on Him. For he says, “And thy life shall be hanging before thine eyes, and thou wilt not believe thy life.”3926

3926


Anf-01 ix.vi.xi Pg 14
Deut. xxxii. 6. “Owned thee,” i.e., following the meaning of the Hebrew, “owned thee by generation.”



Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxii Pg 8
Deut. xxxii. 6, LXX. [Let us reflect that this effort to spiritualize this awful passage in the history of Lot is an innocent but unsuccessful attempt to imitate St. Paul’s allegory, Gal. iv. 24.]

At what time, then, did He pour out upon the human race the life-giving seed—that is, the Spirit of the remission of sins, through means of whom we are quickened? Was it not then, when He was eating with men, and drinking wine upon the earth? For it is said, “The Son of man came eating and drinking;”4235

4235


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 48.1


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 *marg:


Anf-03 v.vii.iii Pg 15
Gen. xxxii.

Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed into human bodily form,6983

6983 See below in chap. vi. and in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 9.

nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be God, after His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held in your belief, that the Creator’s angels are in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body6984

6984 Corpore.

of a dove, and sat upon the Lord.6985

6985


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 21
See Gen. xxxii. 28.

Now, one cannot wonder that He forbade “premeditation,” who actually Himself received from the Father the ability of uttering words in season: “The Lord hath given to me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season (to him that is weary);”5034

5034


Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 24


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.x Pg 9.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xii Pg 5.1


Npnf-201 iv.viii.xvii Pg 11


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 61.1


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 63.1


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 8
1 Kings x. 1.

she whom the Lord also referred to as one who should rise up in the judgment with the nations of those men who do hear His words, and do not believe in Him, and should condemn them, inasmuch as she submitted herself to the wisdom announced by the servant of God, while these men despised that wisdom which proceeded directly from the Son of God. For Solomon was a servant, but Christ is indeed the Son of God, and the Lord of Solomon. While, therefore, he served God without blame, and ministered to His dispensations, then was he glorified: but when he took wives from all nations, and permitted them to set up idols in Israel, the Scripture spake thus concerning him: “And King Solomon was a lover of women, and he took to himself foreign women; and it came to pass, when Solomon was old, his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God. And the foreign women turned away his heart after strange gods. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord: he did not walk after the Lord, as did David his father. And the Lord was angry with Solomon; for his heart was not perfect with the Lord, as was the heart of David his father.”4181

4181


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxviii Pg 9
1 Kings xi. 1.

The Scripture has thus sufficiently reproved him, as the presbyter remarked, in order that no flesh may glory in the sight of the Lord.


Anf-03 iv.ix.iv Pg 9
I am not acquainted with any such passage. Oehler refers to Isa. xlix. in his margin, but gives no verse, and omits to notice this passage of the present treatise in his index.

Thus, therefore, before this temporal sabbath, there was withal an eternal sabbath foreshown and foretold; just as before the carnal circumcision there was withal a spiritual circumcision foreshown. In short, let them teach us, as we have already premised, that Adam observed the sabbath; or that Abel, when offering to God a holy victim, pleased Him by a religious reverence for the sabbath; or that Enoch, when translated, had been a keeper of the sabbath; or that Noah the ark-builder observed, on account of the deluge, an immense sabbath; or that Abraham, in observance of the sabbath, offered Isaac his son; or that Melchizedek in his priesthood received the law of the sabbath.


Anf-01 viii.ii.xl Pg 3
Ps. i., Ps. ii.


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 27.1


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 27.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiii Pg 8.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 51.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 51.1


Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 14.1


Anf-01 v.vii.i Pg 6
Isa. v. 26, Isa. xlix. 22.

for all ages, through His resurrection, to all His holy and faithful [followers], whether among Jews or Gentiles, in the one body of His Church.


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-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-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 125.1


Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xxiii Pg 8
1 Sam. xiii.

Solomon is rejected; but he is now become a prey to foreign women, and a slave to the idols of Moab and Sidon. What must the Creator do, in order to escape the censure of the Marcionites? Must He prematurely condemn men, who are thus far correct in their conduct, because of future delinquencies? But it is not the mark of a good God to condemn beforehand persons who have not yet deserved condemnation. Must He then refuse to eject sinners, on account of their previous good deeds? But it is not the characteristic of a just judge to forgive sins in consideration of former virtues which are no longer practised. Now, who is so faultless among men, that God could always have him in His choice, and never be able to reject him? Or who, on the other hand, is so void of any good work, that God could reject him for ever, and never be able to choose him? Show me, then, the man who is always good, and he will not be rejected; show me, too, him who is always evil, and he will never be chosen.  Should, however, the same man, being found on different occasions in the pursuit of both (good and evil) be recompensed2986

2986 Dispungetur.

in both directions by God, who is both a good and judicial Being, He does not change His judgments through inconstancy or want of foresight, but dispenses reward according to the deserts of each case with a most unwavering and provident decision.2987

2987 Censura.



Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 27
Oehler refers to Isa. xix. 1. See, too, Isa. xxx. and xxxi.

So, again, Babylon, in our own John, is a figure of the city Rome, as being equally great and proud of her sway, and triumphant over the saints.1273

1273


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 55.1


Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 18


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.iii Pg 14.1


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 62
Ps. xlv. 3, 4.

And whatever other things of a like nature are spoken regarding Him, these indicated that beauty and splendour which exist in His kingdom, along with the transcendent and pre-eminent exaltation [belonging] to all who are under His sway, that those who hear might desire to be found there, doing such things as are pleasing to God. Again, there are those who say, “He is a man, and who shall know him?”4303

4303


Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxviii Pg 0


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 3.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xv Pg 5.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 34
Ps. xlv. 4 (xliv. 5 in LXX.).

Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles?  See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,—that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened1279

1279


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 6
Ps. xlv. 4.

But who shall produce these results with the sword, and not their opposites rather—deceit, and harshness, and injury—which, it must be confessed, are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore, whether that is not some other sword, which has so different an action. Now the Apostle John, in the Apocalypse, describes a sword which proceeded from the mouth of God as “a doubly sharp, two-edged one.”3290

3290


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 12
Ps. xlv. 4, but changed.

even the might of Thy spiritual grace, whereby the knowledge of Christ is spread. “Thine arrows are sharp;”3296

3296


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.x Pg 4.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.lii Pg 4
Ps. l. 14, 15.

For “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”235

235


Anf-01 ix.vi.xviii Pg 8
Ps. l. 14, 15.

rejecting, indeed, those things by which sinners imagined they could propitiate God, and showing that He does Himself stand in need of nothing; but He exhorts and advises them to those things by which man is justified and draws nigh to God. This same declaration does Esaias make: “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the Lord. I am full.”4014

4014


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvii Pg 7.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 6.1


Anf-03 v.viii.xxx Pg 1
Chapter XXX.—This Vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Dead.  A Chronological Error of Our Author, Who Supposes that Ezekiel in His Ch. XXXI. Prophesied Before the Captivity.


Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 23.1
136:16


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 50
Isa. xxxv. 8, 9, Sept.

he points out the way of faith, by which we shall reach to God; and then to this way of faith he promises this utter crippling4462

4462 Evacuationem.

and subjugation of all noxious animals.  Lastly, you may discover the suitable times of the promise, if you read what precedes the passage: “Be strong, ye weak hands and ye feeble knees: then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear; then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be articulate.”4463

4463


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 3
Isa. xxxv. 10.

Well, there is nothing eternal until after the resurrection. “And sorrow and sighing,” continues he, “shall flee away.”7729

7729


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 4
Ver. 10.

The angel echoes the same to John: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;”7730

7730


Anf-01 v.v.viii Pg 5
Ps. cxvi. 12.

Now God, even the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, shall reveal these things to you, [so that ye shall know] that I speak truly. And do ye pray along with me, that I may attain my aim in the Holy Spirit. I have not written to you according to the flesh, but according to the will of God. If I shall suffer, ye have loved me; but if I am rejected, ye have hated me.


Anf-01 vi.ii.vi Pg 10
Ps. xxii. 17, Ps. cxviii. 12.

and “upon my garment they cast lots.”1502

1502


Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxvii Pg 7.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 25
Or, perhaps, “not affected, as a body, with human sufferings;” in allusion to such passages as Deut. viii. 4; xxix. 5; Neh. ix. 21.

meats, but fed on “angel’s loaves1185

1185


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 32
Deut. viii. 12–14.

In similar terms, when king Hezekiah became proud of his treasures, and gloried in them rather than in God before those who had come on an embassy from Babylon,4012

4012 Tertullian says, ex Perside.

(the Creator) breaks forth4013

4013 Insilit.

against him by the mouth of Isaiah:  “Behold, the days come when all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store, shall be carried to Babylon.”4014

4014


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 52
Comp. Deut. viii. 12–14.

Some places there were in Jerusalem where to teach; other places outside Jerusalem whither to retire5064

5064


Anf-01 viii.iv.xx Pg 7
Deut. xxxii. 6; 20.


Anf-01 ix.vi.xi Pg 12
Deut. xxxii. 6.

And again, he indicates that He who from the beginning founded and created them, the Word, who also redeems and vivifies us in the last times, is shown as hanging on the tree, and they will not believe on Him. For he says, “And thy life shall be hanging before thine eyes, and thou wilt not believe thy life.”3926

3926


Anf-01 ix.vi.xi Pg 14
Deut. xxxii. 6. “Owned thee,” i.e., following the meaning of the Hebrew, “owned thee by generation.”



Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxii Pg 8
Deut. xxxii. 6, LXX. [Let us reflect that this effort to spiritualize this awful passage in the history of Lot is an innocent but unsuccessful attempt to imitate St. Paul’s allegory, Gal. iv. 24.]

At what time, then, did He pour out upon the human race the life-giving seed—that is, the Spirit of the remission of sins, through means of whom we are quickened? Was it not then, when He was eating with men, and drinking wine upon the earth? For it is said, “The Son of man came eating and drinking;”4235

4235


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 48.1


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 *marg:


Anf-03 v.vii.iii Pg 15
Gen. xxxii.

Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed into human bodily form,6983

6983 See below in chap. vi. and in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 9.

nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be God, after His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held in your belief, that the Creator’s angels are in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body6984

6984 Corpore.

of a dove, and sat upon the Lord.6985

6985


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 21
See Gen. xxxii. 28.

Now, one cannot wonder that He forbade “premeditation,” who actually Himself received from the Father the ability of uttering words in season: “The Lord hath given to me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season (to him that is weary);”5034

5034


Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 24


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.x Pg 9.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xii Pg 5.1


Npnf-201 iv.viii.xvii Pg 11


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 55.1


Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 18


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 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


Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 28


Anf-01 ii.ii.xvii Pg 5
Job xiv. 4, 5. [Septuagint.]

Moses was called faithful in all God’s house;76

76


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xi Pg 2.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 229.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.vii Pg 14.2


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxvi Pg 4
Comp. Ps. iii. 6.

and again, Job says, “Thou shalt raise up this flesh of mine, which has suffered all these things.”108

108


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxii Pg 10
Ps. iii. 6.

And because He used thus to act while He dwelt and lived among us, He says again, “And my sleep became sweet unto me.”4237

4237 107:41


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 65.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.xxxix Pg 6
Job iv. 16–18, Job xv. 15, Job iv. 19–21, Job v. 1–5.


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-01 ix.viii.x Pg 2
Ps. cxxx. 7.


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.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-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 vi.ii.iv Pg 12
The Latin here departs entirely from the Greek text, and quotes as a saying of “the Son of God” the following precept, nowhere to be found in the New Testament: “Let us resist all iniquity, and hold it in hatred.” Hilgenfeld joins this clause to the former sentence.

may find no means of entrance, let us flee from every vanity, let us utterly hate the works of the way of wickedness. Do not, by retiring apart, live a solitary life, as if you were already [fully] justified; but coming together in one place, make common inquiry concerning what tends to your general welfare. For the Scripture saith, “Woe to them who are wise to themselves, and prudent in their own sight!”1479

1479


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 62
Ps. xlv. 3, 4.

And whatever other things of a like nature are spoken regarding Him, these indicated that beauty and splendour which exist in His kingdom, along with the transcendent and pre-eminent exaltation [belonging] to all who are under His sway, that those who hear might desire to be found there, doing such things as are pleasing to God. Again, there are those who say, “He is a man, and who shall know him?”4303

4303


Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxviii Pg 0


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 3.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xv Pg 5.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 34
Ps. xlv. 4 (xliv. 5 in LXX.).

Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles?  See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,—that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened1279

1279


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 6
Ps. xlv. 4.

But who shall produce these results with the sword, and not their opposites rather—deceit, and harshness, and injury—which, it must be confessed, are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore, whether that is not some other sword, which has so different an action. Now the Apostle John, in the Apocalypse, describes a sword which proceeded from the mouth of God as “a doubly sharp, two-edged one.”3290

3290


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 12
Ps. xlv. 4, but changed.

even the might of Thy spiritual grace, whereby the knowledge of Christ is spread. “Thine arrows are sharp;”3296

3296


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.x Pg 4.1


Anf-01 ii.ii.lii Pg 4
Ps. l. 14, 15.

For “the sacrifice of God is a broken spirit.”235

235


Anf-01 ix.vi.xviii Pg 8
Ps. l. 14, 15.

rejecting, indeed, those things by which sinners imagined they could propitiate God, and showing that He does Himself stand in need of nothing; but He exhorts and advises them to those things by which man is justified and draws nigh to God. This same declaration does Esaias make: “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the Lord. I am full.”4014

4014


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xvii Pg 7.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 6.1


Anf-03 v.viii.xxx Pg 1
Chapter XXX.—This Vision Interpreted by Tertullian of the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Dead.  A Chronological Error of Our Author, Who Supposes that Ezekiel in His Ch. XXXI. Prophesied Before the Captivity.


Anf-02 ii.ii.i Pg 23.1
136:16


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 50
Isa. xxxv. 8, 9, Sept.

he points out the way of faith, by which we shall reach to God; and then to this way of faith he promises this utter crippling4462

4462 Evacuationem.

and subjugation of all noxious animals.  Lastly, you may discover the suitable times of the promise, if you read what precedes the passage: “Be strong, ye weak hands and ye feeble knees: then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear; then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be articulate.”4463

4463


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 3
Isa. xxxv. 10.

Well, there is nothing eternal until after the resurrection. “And sorrow and sighing,” continues he, “shall flee away.”7729

7729


Anf-03 v.viii.lviii Pg 4
Ver. 10.

The angel echoes the same to John: “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;”7730

7730


Anf-01 v.v.viii Pg 5
Ps. cxvi. 12.

Now God, even the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, shall reveal these things to you, [so that ye shall know] that I speak truly. And do ye pray along with me, that I may attain my aim in the Holy Spirit. I have not written to you according to the flesh, but according to the will of God. If I shall suffer, ye have loved me; but if I am rejected, ye have hated me.


Anf-01 vi.ii.vi Pg 10
Ps. xxii. 17, Ps. cxviii. 12.

and “upon my garment they cast lots.”1502

1502


Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxvii Pg 7.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.iii Pg 25
Or, perhaps, “not affected, as a body, with human sufferings;” in allusion to such passages as Deut. viii. 4; xxix. 5; Neh. ix. 21.

meats, but fed on “angel’s loaves1185

1185


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xv Pg 32
Deut. viii. 12–14.

In similar terms, when king Hezekiah became proud of his treasures, and gloried in them rather than in God before those who had come on an embassy from Babylon,4012

4012 Tertullian says, ex Perside.

(the Creator) breaks forth4013

4013 Insilit.

against him by the mouth of Isaiah:  “Behold, the days come when all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store, shall be carried to Babylon.”4014

4014


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 52
Comp. Deut. viii. 12–14.

Some places there were in Jerusalem where to teach; other places outside Jerusalem whither to retire5064

5064


Anf-01 viii.iv.xx Pg 7
Deut. xxxii. 6; 20.


Anf-01 ix.vi.xi Pg 12
Deut. xxxii. 6.

And again, he indicates that He who from the beginning founded and created them, the Word, who also redeems and vivifies us in the last times, is shown as hanging on the tree, and they will not believe on Him. For he says, “And thy life shall be hanging before thine eyes, and thou wilt not believe thy life.”3926

3926


Anf-01 ix.vi.xi Pg 14
Deut. xxxii. 6. “Owned thee,” i.e., following the meaning of the Hebrew, “owned thee by generation.”



Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxii Pg 8
Deut. xxxii. 6, LXX. [Let us reflect that this effort to spiritualize this awful passage in the history of Lot is an innocent but unsuccessful attempt to imitate St. Paul’s allegory, Gal. iv. 24.]

At what time, then, did He pour out upon the human race the life-giving seed—that is, the Spirit of the remission of sins, through means of whom we are quickened? Was it not then, when He was eating with men, and drinking wine upon the earth? For it is said, “The Son of man came eating and drinking;”4235

4235


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 48.1


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 *marg:


Anf-03 v.vii.iii Pg 15
Gen. xxxii.

Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed into human bodily form,6983

6983 See below in chap. vi. and in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 9.

nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be God, after His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held in your belief, that the Creator’s angels are in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body6984

6984 Corpore.

of a dove, and sat upon the Lord.6985

6985


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 21
See Gen. xxxii. 28.

Now, one cannot wonder that He forbade “premeditation,” who actually Himself received from the Father the ability of uttering words in season: “The Lord hath given to me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season (to him that is weary);”5034

5034


Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 24


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.x Pg 9.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xii Pg 5.1


Npnf-201 iv.viii.xvii Pg 11


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 55.1


Npnf-201 iii.vi.ii Pg 18


Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 60.1


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