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PARALLEL HISTORY BIBLE - Matthew 12:44


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LXX- Greek Septuagint - Matthew 12:44

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Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

King James Bible - Matthew 12:44

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

World English Bible

Then he says, 'I will return into my house from which I came out,' and when he has come back, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order.

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Anf-08 iv.iii Pg 43, Npnf-212 iii.iv.iv.xvi Pg 3

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Matthew 12:44

Early Christian Commentary - (A.D. 100 - A.D. 325)

Anf-01 ix.iv.ix Pg 7
Matt. xii. 29.

Now we were the vessels and the house of this [strong man] when we were in a state of apostasy; for he put us to whatever use he pleased, and the unclean spirit dwelt within us. For he was not strong, as opposed to Him who bound him, and spoiled his house; but as against those persons who were his tools, inasmuch as he caused their thought to wander away from God: these did the Lord snatch from his grasp. As also Jeremiah declares, “The Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and has snatched him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.”3369

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Anf-01 ix.iv.xix Pg 35
Matt. xii. 29.

and set free the weak, and endowed His own handiwork with salvation, by destroying sin. For He is a most holy and merciful Lord, and loves the human race.


Anf-01 ix.iv.xxiv Pg 3
Matt. xii. 29.

and abolished death, vivifying that man who had been in a state of death. For as the first Adam became a vessel in his (Satan’s) possession, whom he did also hold under his power, that is, by bringing sin on him iniquitously, and under colour of immortality entailing death upon him. For, while promising that they should be as gods, which was in no way possible for him to be, he wrought death in them: wherefore he who had led man captive, was justly captured in his turn by God; but man, who had been led captive, was loosed from the bonds of condemnation.


Anf-01 ix.vii.xxii Pg 16
Matt. xii. 29 and Mark iii. 27.

The Lord therefore exposes him as speaking contrary to the word of that God who made all things, and subdues him by means of the commandment. Now the law is the commandment of God. The Man proves him to be a fugitive from and a transgressor of the law, an apostate also from God. After [the Man had done this], the Word bound him securely as a fugitive from Himself, and made spoil of his goods,— namely, those men whom he held in bondage, and whom he unjustly used for his own purposes. And justly indeed is he led captive, who had led men unjustly into bondage; while man, who had been led captive in times past, was rescued from the grasp of his possessor, according to the tender mercy of God the Father, who had compassion on His own handiwork, and gave to it salvation, restoring it by means of the Word—that is, by Christ—in order that man might learn by actual proof that he receives incorruptibility not of himself, but by the free gift of God.


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 28
Matt. xxii. 29; Luke xi. 21, 22.

him who was stronger than men,4276

4276 Literally, “who was strong against men.”

who had not only overcome man, but also retained him under his power, and conquered him who had conquered, while he set free mankind who had been conquered, unless He had been greater than man who had thus been vanquished? But who else is superior to, and more eminent than, that man who was formed after the likeness of God, except the Son of God, after whose image man was created? And for this reason He did in these last days4277

4277 In fine; lit. “in the end.”

exhibit the similitude; [for] the Son of God was made man, assuming the ancient production [of His hands] into His own nature,4278

4278 In semetipsum: lit. “unto Himself.”

as I have shown in the immediately preceding book.


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxvi Pg 42
Luke xi. 21, 22.

the prince of the demons, whom He had already called Beelzebub and Satan; signifying that it was he who was overcome by the finger of God, and not that the Creator had been subdued by another god.  Besides,4568

4568 Ceterum.

how could His kingdom be still standing, with its boundaries, and laws, and functions, whom, even if the whole world were left entire to Him, Marcion’s god could possibly seem to have overcome as “the stronger than He,” if it were not in consequence of His law that even Marcionites were constantly dying, by returning in their dissolution4569

4569 Defluendo.

to the ground, and were so often admonished by even a scorpion, that the Creator had by no means been overcome?4570

4570 The scorpion here represents any class of the lowest animals, especially such as stung.  The Marcionites impiously made it a reproach to the Creator, that He had formed such worthless and offensive creatures.  Compare book i. chap. 17, note 5. p. 283.

“A (certain) mother of the company exclaims, ‘Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked;’ but the Lord said, ‘Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.’”4571

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Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 28
Matt. xxii. 29; Luke xi. 21, 22.

him who was stronger than men,4276

4276 Literally, “who was strong against men.”

who had not only overcome man, but also retained him under his power, and conquered him who had conquered, while he set free mankind who had been conquered, unless He had been greater than man who had thus been vanquished? But who else is superior to, and more eminent than, that man who was formed after the likeness of God, except the Son of God, after whose image man was created? And for this reason He did in these last days4277

4277 In fine; lit. “in the end.”

exhibit the similitude; [for] the Son of God was made man, assuming the ancient production [of His hands] into His own nature,4278

4278 In semetipsum: lit. “unto Himself.”

as I have shown in the immediately preceding book.


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxvi Pg 42
Luke xi. 21, 22.

the prince of the demons, whom He had already called Beelzebub and Satan; signifying that it was he who was overcome by the finger of God, and not that the Creator had been subdued by another god.  Besides,4568

4568 Ceterum.

how could His kingdom be still standing, with its boundaries, and laws, and functions, whom, even if the whole world were left entire to Him, Marcion’s god could possibly seem to have overcome as “the stronger than He,” if it were not in consequence of His law that even Marcionites were constantly dying, by returning in their dissolution4569

4569 Defluendo.

to the ground, and were so often admonished by even a scorpion, that the Creator had by no means been overcome?4570

4570 The scorpion here represents any class of the lowest animals, especially such as stung.  The Marcionites impiously made it a reproach to the Creator, that He had formed such worthless and offensive creatures.  Compare book i. chap. 17, note 5. p. 283.

“A (certain) mother of the company exclaims, ‘Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which Thou hast sucked;’ but the Lord said, ‘Yea, rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.’”4571

4571


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