Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 17
1 Kings xvii. 7–16.
If you also turn to the fourth book, you will discover all this conduct4272 4272 Ordinem.
of Christ pursued by that man of God, who ordered ten4273 4273 I have no doubt that ten was the word written by our author; for some Greek copies read δέκα, and Ambrose in his Hexaëmeron, book vi. chap. ii., mentions the same number (Fr. Junius).
barley loaves which had been given him to be distributed among the people; and when his servitor, after contrasting the large number of the persons with the small supply of the food, answered, “What, shall I set this before a hundred men?” he said again, “Give them, and they shall eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof, according to the word of the Lord.”4274 4274
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxi Pg 28.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 7.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 126.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 126.1
Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 13.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 146.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.i Pg 34
Deut. xxxii. 39.
—even the same “who createth evil and maketh peace;”3509 3509
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xi Pg 19
Deut. xxxii. 39.
We have already made good the Creator’s claim to this twofold character of judgment and goodness5696 5696 See above in book ii. [cap. xi. p. 306.]
—“killing in the letter” through the law, and “quickening in the Spirit” through the Gospel. Now these attributes, however different they be, cannot possibly make two gods; for they have already (in the prevenient dispensation of the Old Testament) been found to meet in One.5697 5697 Apud unum recenseri prævenerunt.
He alludes to Moses’ veil, covered with which “his face could not be stedfastly seen by the children of Israel.”5698 5698
Anf-03 v.viii.ix Pg 10
Deut. xxxii. 39.
Why reproach the flesh with those conditions which wait for God, which hope in God, which receive honour from God, which He succours? I venture to declare, that if such casualties as these had never befallen the flesh, the bounty, the grace, the mercy, (and indeed) all the beneficent power of God, would have had no opportunity to work.7351 7351 Vacuisset.
