Anf-03 v.iii.viii Pg 10
Luke xvi. 29.
—in other words, the law and the prophets, which preach Christ; as also in another place He says plainly, “Search the Scriptures, in which ye expect (to find) salvation; for they testify of me;”1937 1937
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 42
Luke xvi. 29.
Marcion, however, violently turns the passage to another end, and decides that both the torment and the comfort are retributions of the Creator reserved in the next life4843 4843 Apud inferos. [Note the origin of this doctrine.]
for those who have obeyed the law and the prophets; whilst he defines the heavenly bosom and harbour to belong to Christ and his own god. Our answer to this is, that the Scripture itself which dazzles4844 4844 Revincente: perhaps “reproves his eyesight,” in the sense of refutation.
his sight expressly distinguishes between Abraham’s bosom, where the poor man dwells, and the infernal place of torment. “Hell” (I take it) means one thing, and “Abraham’s bosom” another. “A great gulf” is said to separate those regions, and to hinder a passage from one to the other. Besides, the rich man could not have “lifted up his eyes,”4845 4845
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 16
VERSE (29) - :16 Isa 8:20; 34:16 Mal 4:2-4 Joh 5:39-45 Ac 15:21; 17:11,12
