Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 53
Luke xxi. 37.
—“in the day-time He was teaching in the temple;” just as He had foretold by Hosea: “In my house did they find me, and there did I speak with them.”5065 5065
Anf-03 v.ix.xxx Pg 14
Acts i. 11; Luke xxi. 37.
Meanwhile He has received from the Father the promised gift, and has shed it forth, even the Holy Spirit—the Third Name in the Godhead, and the Third Degree of the Divine Majesty; the Declarer of the One Monarchy of God, but at the same time the Interpreter of the Economy, to every one who hears and receives the words of the new prophecy;8198 8198 Tertullian was now a [pronounced] Montanist.
and “the Leader into all truth,”8199 8199
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 51
Luke xxi. 34, 35. [Here follows a rich selection of parallels to Luke xxi. 34–38.]
—if indeed they should forget God amidst the abundance and occupation of the world. Like this will be found the admonition of Moses,—so that He who delivers from “the snare” of that day is none other than He who so long before addressed to men the same admonition.5063 5063
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxix Pg 56
Luke xxi. 38.
must they resort to Him, who (having said by Isaiah, “The Lord giveth me the tongue of the learned”) added, “He hath appointed me the morning, and hath also given me an ear to hear.”5068 5068
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.xi Pg 105.2
Anf-03 iv.xi.xix Pg 11
Matt. xxi. 15.
while the other, by being slaughtered, for His sake of course, knew what violence meant.1644 1644
Anf-01 ix.ii.xxi Pg 7
Matt. xxi. 23.
but by a question on His own side, put them to utter confusion; by His thus not replying, according to their interpretation, He showed the unutterable nature of the Father. Moreover, when He said, “I have often desired to hear one of these words, and I had no one who could utter it,”2916 2916 Taken from some apocryphal writing.
they maintain, that by this expression “one” He set forth the one true God whom they knew not. Further, when, as He drew nigh to Jerusalem, He wept over it and said, “If thou hadst known, even thou, in this thy day, the things that belong unto thy peace, but they are hidden from thee,”2917 2917
Anf-03 vi.iii.iii Pg 3
Compare the Jews’ question, Matt. xxi. 23.
This8552 8552 Its authority.
however, is found in abundance, and that from the very beginning. For water is one of those things which, before all the furnishing of the world, were quiescent with God in a yet unshapen8553 8553 Impolita.
state. “In the first beginning,” saith Scripture, “God made the heaven and the earth. But the earth was invisible, and unorganized,8554 8554 Incomposita.
and darkness was over the abyss; and the Spirit of the Lord was hovering8555 8555 Ferebatur.
over the waters.”8556 8556
Anf-03 vi.iii.x Pg 10
Matt. iii. 7–12; xxi. 23, 31, 32.
But if repentance is a thing human, its baptism must necessarily be of the same nature: else, if it had been celestial, it would have given both the Holy Spirit and remission of sins. But none either pardons sins or freely grants the Spirit save God only.8643 8643
Anf-03 v.viii.xxxiii Pg 9
Such cases of obvious meaning, which required no explanation, are referred to in Matt. xxi. 45 and Luke xx. 19.
as in the parable of the fig-tree, which was spared a while in hopes of improvement—an emblem of Jewish sterility. Now, if even parables obscure not the light of the gospel, how unlikely it is that plain sentences and declarations, which have an unmistakeable meaning, should signify any other thing than their literal sense! But it is by such declarations and sentences that the Lord sets forth either the last judgment, or the kingdom, or the resurrection: “It shall be more tolerable,” He says, “for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.”7503 7503
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.xii Pg 1.3
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 22
VERSE (53) - Lu 21:37,38 Mt 21:12-15,23,45,46 Joh 7:25,26,30,45
