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.
temptations surrounded, when in forty days He had kept fast. “Then,” some one will say, “it becomes us, too, rather to fast afterbaptism.”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 reproachthey had cast on the Lord.8751