Anf-02 vi.iii.i.vii Pg 33.1
Anf-02 vi.v Pg 17.1
Anf-03 vi.iii.v Pg 14
John i. 16, 17.
an accession of efficacy was granted to the waters and to the angel. They who8580 8580 Qui: i.e. probably “angeli qui.”
were wont to remedy bodily defects,8581 8581 Vitia.
now heal the spirit; they who used to work temporal salvation8582 8582 Or, “health”—salutem.
now renew eternal; they who did set free but once in the year, now save peoples in a body8583 8583 Conservant populos.
daily, death being done away through ablution of sins. The guilt being removed, of course the penalty is removed too. Thus man will be restored for God to His “likeness,” who in days bygone had been conformed to “the image” of God; (the “image” is counted (to be) in his form: the “likeness” in his eternity:) for he receives again that Spirit of God which he had then first received from His afflatus, but had afterward lost through sin.