Anf-01 ix.iv.xxiv Pg 2
Acts i. 7.
[This was necessary,] too, inasmuch as the whole economy of salvation regarding man came to pass according to the good pleasure of the Father, in order that God might not be conquered, nor His wisdom lessened, [in the estimation of His creatures.] For if man, who had been created by God that he might live, after losing life, through being injured by the serpent that had corrupted him, should not any more return to life, but should be utterly [and for ever] abandoned to death, God would [in that case] have been conquered, and the wickedness of the serpent would have prevailed over the will of God. But inasmuch as God is invincible and long-suffering, He did indeed show Himself to be long-suffering in the matter of the correction of man and the probation of all, as I have already observed; and by means of the second man did He bind the strong man, and spoiled his goods,3757 3757
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 88.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 21
VERSE (21) - Mt 24:3,4 Lu 13:23,24 Ac 1:6,7
