Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 236.1
Npnf-201 iii.x.ii Pg 26
Anf-01 ix.vi.xiv Pg 14
John xv. 15.
For in that which He says, “I will not now call you servants,” He indicates in the most marked manner that it was Himself who did originally appoint for men that bondage with respect to God through the law, and then afterwards conferred upon them freedom. And in that He says, “For the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth,” He points out, by means of His own advent, the ignorance of a people in a servile condition. But when He terms His disciples “the friends of God,” He plainly declares Himself to be the Word of God, whom Abraham also followed voluntarily and under no compulsion (sine vinculis), because of the noble nature of his faith, and so became “the friend of God.”3958 3958
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xviii Pg 23.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.v Pg 7.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.iii Pg 4.1
Anf-03 v.ix.xiv Pg 7
Ex. xxxiii. 11.
just as Jacob also says, “I have seen God face to face.”7925 7925
Anf-03 v.ix.xiv Pg 14
Comp. ver. 13 with ver. 11 of Ex. xxxiii.
which he ought not to have desired, because he had already seen it? And how, in like manner, does the Lord also say that His face cannot be seen, because He had shown it, if indeed He really had, (as our opponents suppose). Or what is that face of God, the sight of which is refused, if there was one which was visible to man? “I have seen God,” says Jacob, “face to face, and my life is preserved.”7932 7932 Gen. xxii. 30.
There ought to be some other face which kills if it be only seen. Well, then, was the Son visible? (Certainly not,7933 7933 Involved in the nunquid.
) although He was the face of God, except only in vision and dream, and in a glass and enigma, because the Word and Spirit (of God) cannot be seen except in an imaginary form. But, (they say,) He calls the invisible Father His face. For who is the Father? Must He not be the face of the Son, by reason of that authority which He obtains as the begotten of the Father? For is there not a natural propriety in saying of some personage greater (than yourself), That man is my face; he gives me his countenance? “My Father,” says Christ, “is greater than I.”7934 7934
Anf-03 vi.iv.vii Pg 6
Ex. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11.
Moreover, debt is, in the Scriptures, a figure of guilt; because it is equally due to the sentence of judgment, and is exacted by it: nor does it evade the justice of exaction, unless the exaction be remitted, just as the lord remitted to that slave in the parable his debt;8812 8812
Anf-01 ii.ii.x Pg 2
Isa. xli. 8; 2 Chron. xx. 7; Judith viii. 19; Jas. ii. 23.
was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from his father’s house, in order that, by forsaking a small territory, and a weak family, and an insignificant house, he might inherit the promises of God. For God said to him, “Get thee out from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, into the land which I shall show thee. And I will make thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shall be blessed. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”46 46
Anf-01 ii.ii.x Pg 2
Isa. xli. 8; 2 Chron. xx. 7; Judith viii. 19; Jas. ii. 23.
was found faithful, inasmuch as he rendered obedience to the words of God. He, in the exercise of obedience, went out from his own country, and from his kindred, and from his father’s house, in order that, by forsaking a small territory, and a weak family, and an insignificant house, he might inherit the promises of God. For God said to him, “Get thee out from thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, into the land which I shall show thee. And I will make thee a great nation, and will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shall be blessed. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”46 46
Anf-01 v.iii.x Pg 11
Matt. iii. 9; Isa. xli. 8; Jas. ii. 23. Some read, “children of God, friends of Abraham.”
and in his seed all those have been blessed704 704
Anf-03 iv.ix.ii Pg 15
See Isa. xli. 8; Jas. ii. 23.
if not on the ground of equity and righteousness, (in the observance) of a natural law? Whence was Melchizedek named “priest of the most high God,”1150 1150
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 11
VERSE (11) - Joh 3:29; 15:13-15 Ex 33:11 2Ch 20:7 Isa 41:8 Jas 2:23
