Anf-03 vi.iii.xx Pg 7
What passage is referred to is doubtful. The editors point us to Luke xxii. 28, 29; but the reference is unsatisfactory.
The Lord Himself forthwith after baptism8749 8749 Lavacrum.
temptations surrounded, when in forty days He had kept fast. “Then,” some one will say, “it becomes us, too, rather to fast after baptism.”8750 8750 Lavacro. Compare the beginning of the chapter.
Well, and who forbids you, unless it be the necessity for joy, and the thanksgiving for salvation? But so far as I, with my poor powers, understand, the Lord figuratively retorted upon Israel the reproach they had cast on the Lord.8751 8751
Anf-03 v.ix.xxvi Pg 22
Luke xxii. 29.
He has power to ask, if He will, legions of angels from the Father for His help.8145 8145
Anf-03 iv.iv.xviii Pg 22
i.e., Martyrdom (La Cerda, quoted by Oehler). For the idea of being “a magistrate in the heavens,” [sitting on a throne] compare such passages as Matt. xix. 28; Luke xxii. 28, 30; 1 Cor. vi. 2, 3; Rev. ii. 26, 27; iii. 21.
