Anf-01 ii.ii.xvi Pg 6
Isa. liii. The reader will observe how often the text of the Septuagint, here quoted, differs from the Hebrew as represented by our authorized English version.
And again He saith, “I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All that see Me have derided Me; they have spoken with their lips; they have wagged their head, [saying] He hoped in God, let Him deliver Him, let Him save Him, since He delighteth in Him.”71 71
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 4
Isa. liii. 3.
and sat upon the foal of an ass,4256 4256
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 74
Isa. liii. 3.
and sitting upon the foal of an ass,4314 4314
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.i Pg 13.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.v Pg 20.1
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.vii Pg 7
Isa. liii. 2, 3, according to the Septuagint.
“marred more than the sons of men; a man stricken with sorrows, and knowing how to bear our infirmity;”3185 3185
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 67
See Isa. liii. 3; 7, in LXX.; and comp. Ps. xxxviii. 17 (xxxvii. 18 in LXX.) in the “Great Bible” of 1539.
If He “neither did contend nor shout, nor was His voice heard abroad,” who “crushed not the bruised reed”—Israel’s faith, who “quenched not the burning flax”1309 1309
Anf-03 iv.ix.xiv Pg 4
See Ps. xxxviii. 17 in the “Great Bible” (xxxvii. 18 in LXX.). Also Isa. liii. 3 in LXX.
and knowing how to bear infirmity:” to wit as having been set by the Father “for a stone of offence,”1447 1447
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xvii Pg 13
Isa. liii. 3; 7.
who did not struggle nor cry, nor was His voice heard in the street who broke not the bruised reed—that is, the shattered faith of the Jews—nor quenched the smoking flax—that is, the freshly-kindled3337 3337 Momentaneum.
ardour of the Gentiles. He can be none other than the Man who was foretold. It is right that His conduct3338 3338 Actum.
be investigated according to the rule of Scripture, distinguishable as it is unless I am mistaken, by the twofold operation of preaching3339 3339 Prædicationis.
and of miracle. But the treatment of both these topics I shall so arrange as to postpone, to the chapter wherein I have determined to discuss the actual gospel of Marcion, the consideration of His wonderful doctrines and miracles—with a view, however, to our present purpose. Let us here, then, in general terms complete the subject which we had entered upon, by indicating, as we pass on,3340 3340 Interim.
how Christ was fore-announced by Isaiah as a preacher: “For who is there among you,” says he, “that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His Son?”3341 3341
Anf-03 v.vii.xv Pg 5
Isa. liii. 3, Sept.
and Jeremiah: “He is a man, and who hath known Him?”7152 7152
Anf-03 v.vii.xv Pg 18
Isa. liii. 3, Sept.
Here they discover a human being mingled with a divine one and so they deny the manhood. They believe that He died, and maintain that a being which has died was born of an incorruptible substance;7165 7165 Ex incorruptela.
as if, forsooth, corruptibility7166 7166 Corruptela.
were something else than death! But our flesh, too, ought immediately to have risen again. Wait a while. Christ has not yet subdued His enemies, so as to be able to triumph over them in company with His friends.
