Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 16
See Matt. ii. 1–12.
and the infant has received “the power of Damascus” without battle and arms. For, besides the fact that it is known to all that the “power”—for that is the “strength”—of the East is wont to abound in gold and odours, certain it is that the divine Scriptures regard “gold” as constituting the “power” also of all other nations; as it says1262 1262 Of course he ought to have said, “they say.”
through Zechariah: “And Judah keepeth guard at Jerusalem, and shall amass all the vigour of the surrounding peoples, gold and silver.”1263 1263
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (12) - :22; 1:20; 27:19 Ge 20:6,7; 31:24 Job 33:15-17 Da 2:19
