Anf-03 v.iv.v.xviii Pg 33
Luke vii. 21, 22.
Now, inasmuch as these predictions evidently related to the Creator’s Christ—as we have proved in the examination of each of them—it was perverse enough, if he gave himself out to be not the Christ of the Creator, and rested the proof of his statement on those very evidences whereby he was urging his claims to be received as the Creator’s Christ. Far greater still is his perverseness when, not being the Christ of John,4168 4168 That is, not the Creator’s Christ—whose prophet John was—therefore a different Christ from Him whom John announced. This is said, of course, on the Marcionite hypothesis (Oehler).
he yet bestows on John his testimony, affirming him to be a prophet, nay more, his messenger,4169 4169 Angelum.
applying to him the Scripture, “Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.”4170 4170
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxviii Pg 93.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 7
VERSE (21) - 1Ki 8:37 Ps 90:7-9 Mr 3:10; 5:29,34 1Co 11:30-32 Heb 12:6
