Anf-01 viii.iv.cv Pg 6
Luke xxiii. 46.
as I have learned also from the memoirs. For He exhorted His disciples to surpass the pharisaic way of living, with the warning, that if they did not, they might be sure they could not be saved; and these words are recorded in the memoirs: ‘Unless your righteousness exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.’2356 2356
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 33
Comp. Luke xxiii. 46 with Ps. xxxi. 5.
that even when dying He might expend His last breath in fulfilling the prophets. Having said this, He gave up the ghost.”5152 5152
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 34
Luke xxiii. 46.
Who? Did the spirit5153 5153 Spiritus: or “breath.”
give itself up; or the flesh the spirit? But the spirit could not have breathed itself out. That which breathes is one thing, that which is breathed is another. If the spirit is breathed it must needs be breathed by another. If, however, there had been nothing there but spirit, it would be said to have departed rather than expired.5154 5154
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xlii Pg 36
Expirasse: considered actively, “breathed out,” in reference to the “expiravit” of the verse 46 above.
What, however, breathes out spirit but the flesh, which both breathes the spirit whilst it has it, and breathes it out when it loses it? Indeed, if it was not flesh (upon the cross), but a phantom5155 5155 A sharp rebuke of Marcion’s Docetism here follows.
of flesh (and5156 5156 Autem.
a phantom is but spirit, and5157 5157 Autem.
so the spirit breathed its own self out, and departed as it did so), no doubt the phantom departed, when the spirit which was the phantom departed: and so the phantom and the spirit disappeared together, and were nowhere to be seen.5158 5158 Nusquam comparuit phantasma cum spiritu.
Nothing therefore remained upon the cross, nothing hung there, after “the giving up of the ghost;”5159 5159 Post expirationem.
there was nothing to beg of Pilate, nothing to take down from the cross, nothing to wrap in the linen, nothing to lay in the new sepulchre.5160 5160
Anf-03 v.ix.xxv Pg 13
Luke xxiii. 46.
But even if (we had not these passages, we meet with satisfactory evidence) after His resurrection and glorious victory over death. Now that all the restraint of His humiliation is taken away, He might, if possible, have shown Himself as the Father to so faithful a woman (as Mary Magdalene) when she approached to touch Him, out of love, not from curiosity, nor with Thomas’ incredulity. But not so; Jesus saith unto her, “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren” (and even in this He proves Himself to be the Son; for if He had been the Father, He would have called them His children, (instead of His brethren), “and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.”8122 8122
Anf-03 v.ix.xxvi Pg 25
Luke xxiii. 46.
After His resurrection He promises in a pledge to His disciples that He will send them the promise of His Father;8148 8148 Luke xxiv. 49.
and lastly, He commands them to baptize into the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, not into a unipersonal God.8149 8149 Non in unum.
And indeed it is not once only, but three times, that we are immersed into the Three Persons, at each several mention of Their names.
