Anf-02 vi.iii.i.iii Pg 7.1
Anf-03 v.iii.xiv Pg 15
Matt. xv. 14.
But when, for the sake of deceiving us, they pretend that they are still seeking, in order that they may palm2012 2012 Insinuent.
their essays2013 2013 Tractatus.
upon us by the suggestion of an anxious sympathy,2014 2014 Or, “by instilling an anxiety into us” (Dodgson).
—when, in short (after gaining an access to us), they proceed at once to insist on the necessity of our inquiring into such points as they were in the habit of advancing, then it is high time for us in moral obligation2015 2015 Jam debemus.
to repel2016 2016 Refutare.
them, so that they may know that it is not Christ, but themselves, whom we disavow. For since they are still seekers, they have no fixed tenets yet;2017 2017 Nondum tenent.
and being not fixed in tenet, they have not yet believed; and being not yet believers, they are not Christians. But even though they have their tenets and their belief, they still say that inquiry is necessary in order to discussion.2018 2018 Ut defendant.
Previous, however, to the discussion, they deny what they confess not yet to have believed, so long as they keep it an object of inquiry. When men, therefore, are not Christians even on their own admission,2019 2019 Nec sibi sunt.
how much more (do they fail to appear such) to us! What sort of truth is that which they patronize,2020 2020 Patrocinantur.
when they commend it to us with a lie? Well, but they actually2021 2021 Ipsi.
treat of the Scriptures and recommend (their opinions) out of the Scriptures! To be sure they do.2022 2022 Scilicet.
From what other source could they derive arguments concerning the things of the faith, except from the records of the faith?
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxxi Pg 37.1, Lifetimes viii.xxxi Pg 41.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 15
VERSE (14) - Ho 4:17 1Ti 6:5
