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
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xix Pg 18
Luke xx. 20.
), so, when it makes no mention of temptation, it does not admit the interpretation of temptation. However, although I do not allow this sense, I may as well ask, by way of a superfluous refutation, for the reasons of the alleged temptation, To what purpose could they have tempted Him by naming His mother and His brethren? If it was to ascertain whether He had been born or not—when was a question raised on this point, which they must resolve by tempting Him in this way? Who could doubt His having been born, when they4200 4200 Singular in the original, but (to avoid confusion) here made plural.
saw Him before them a veritable man?—whom they had heard call Himself “Son of man?”—of whom they doubted whether He were God or Son of God, from seeing Him, as they did, in the perfect garb of human quality?—supposing Him rather to be a prophet, a great one indeed,4201 4201
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xl Pg 3
Luke xxii. i.
In this Moses had declared that there was a sacred mystery:5071 5071 Sacramentum.
“It is the Lord’s passover.”5072 5072
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.iii Pg 34.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (6) - Ps 109:3,4 Mt 12:14 Lu 6:11; 20:19,20; 22:2 Joh 11:53
