Anf-03 v.viii.xxii Pg 13
Ps. cx. 1.
), making Him more hurried than the Father, whilst every crowd in our popular assemblies is still with shouts consigning “the Christians to the lions?”7423 7423 Compare The Apology, xl.; De Spect. xxvii.; De Exhort. Cast. xii.
Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven in like manner as the apostles saw Him ascend, according to the appointment of the two angels?7424 7424
Anf-03 v.ix.iv Pg 5
Ps. cx. 1.
“When, however, all things shall be subdued to Him, (with the exception of Him who did put all things under Him,) then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.”7801 7801
Anf-03 v.ix.xi Pg 16
Ps. cx. 1.
Likewise in the words of Isaiah: “Thus saith the Lord to the Lord7889 7889 Tertullian reads Κυρίῳ instead of Κύρῳ, “Cyrus.”
mine Anointed.”7890 7890
Anf-03 v.ix.xiii Pg 6
Ps. cx. 1.
And Isaiah says this: “Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”7910 7910
Anf-03 v.ix.xxx Pg 13
Ps. cx. 1.
He will come again on the clouds of heaven, just as He appeared when He ascended into heaven.8197 8197
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ix Pg 19
Ps. cx. 1, 2; and viii. 6.
It is necessary for me to lay claim to those Scriptures which the Jews endeavour to deprive us of, and to show that they sustain my view. Now they say that this Psalm5598 5598
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ix Pg 20
Ps. cx.
was a chant in honour of Hezekiah,5599 5599 In Ezechiam cecinisse.
because “he went up to the house of the Lord,”5600 5600
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ix Pg 23
Tertullian, as usual, argues from the Septuagint, which in the latter clause of Ps. cx. 3 has ἐκ γαστρὸς πρὸ ἑωσφόρου ἐγέννησά σε; and so the Vulgate version has it. This Psalm has been variously applied by the Jews. Raschi (or Rabbi Sol. Jarchi) thinks it is most suitable to Abraham, and possibly to David, in which latter view D. Kimchi agrees with him. Others find in Solomon the best application; but more frequently is Hezekiah thought to be the subject of the Psalm, as Tertullian observes. Justin Martyr (in Dial. cum Tryph.) also notices this application of the Psalm. But Tertullian in the next sentence appears to recognize the sounder opinion of the older Jews, who saw in this Ps. cx. a prediction of Messiah. This opinion occurs in the Jerusalem Talmud, in the tract Berachoth, 5. Amongst the more recent Jews who also hold the sounder view, may be mentioned Rabbi Saadias Gaon, on Dan. vii. 13, and R. Moses Hadarsan [singularly enough quoted by Raschi in another part of his commentary (Gen. xxxv. 8)], with others who are mentioned by Wetstein, On the New Testament, Matt. xxii. 44. Modern Jews, such as Moses Mendelsohn, reject the Messianic sense; and they are followed by the commentators of the Rationalist school amongst ourselves and in Germany. J. Olshausen, after Hitzig, comes down in his interpretation of the Psalm as late as the Maccabees, and sees a suitable accomplishment of its words in the honours heaped upon Jonathan by Alexander son of Antiochus Epiphanes (see 1 Macc. x. 20). For the refutation of so inadequate a commentary, the reader is referred to Delitzch on Ps. cx. The variations of opinion, however, in this school, are as remarkable as the fluctuations of the Jewish writers. The latest work on the Psalms which has appeared amongst us (Psalms, chronologically arranged, by four Friends), after Ewald, places the accomplishment of Ps. cx. in what may be allowed to have been its occasion—David’s victories over the neighboring heathen.
are applicable to Hezekiah, and to the birth of Hezekiah. We on our side5602 5602 Nos.
have published Gospels (to the credibility of which we have to thank5603 5603 Debemus.
them5604 5604 Istos: that is, the Jews (Rigalt.).
for having given some confirmation, indeed, already in so great a subject5605 5605 Utique jam in tanto opere.
); and these declare that the Lord was born at night, that so it might be “before the morning star,” as is evident both from the star especially, and from the testimony of the angel, who at night announced to the shepherds that Christ had at that moment been born,5606 5606 Natum esse quum maxime.
and again from the place of the birth, for it is towards night that persons arrive at the (eastern) “inn.” Perhaps, too, there was a mystic purpose in Christ’s being born at night, destined, as He was, to be the light of the truth amidst the dark shadows of ignorance. Nor, again, would God have said, “I have begotten Thee,” except to His true Son. For although He says of all the people (Israel), “I have begotten5607 5607 Generavi: Sept. ἐγέννησα.
children,”5608 5608
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xiv Pg 7
Num. xi. and xxi.
Against young lads, too, did He send forth bears, for their irreverence to the prophet.2872 2872
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xiv Pg 7
Num. xi. and xxi.
Against young lads, too, did He send forth bears, for their irreverence to the prophet.2872 2872
Anf-03 v.x.ii Pg 11
Deut. xii. 30.
But also says He: “If there arise among you a prophet himself, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and it come to pass, and he say, Let us go and serve other gods, whom ye know not, do not hearken to the words of that prophet or dreamer, for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye fear God with all your heart and with all your soul. After the Lord your God ye shall go, and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and serve Him, and cleave unto Him. But that prophet or dreamer shall die; for he has spoken to turn thee away from the Lord thy God.”8237 8237
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.vii Pg 36.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxii Pg 40
Deut. xviii. 19.
So also Isaiah: “Who is there among you that feareth God? Let him hear the voice of His Son.”4357 4357
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.x Pg 33.2
Anf-03 v.x.iii Pg 4
Num. xxv. 1.
turned aside at Sethim, the people go to the daughters of Moab to gratify their lust: they are allured to the idols, so that they committed whoredom with the spirit also: finally, they eat of their defiled sacrifices; then they both worship the gods of the nation, and are admitted to the rites of Beelphegor. For this lapse, too, into idolatry, sister to adultery, it took the slaughter of twenty-three thousand by the swords of their countrymen to appease the divine anger. After the death of Joshua the son of Nave they forsake the God of their fathers, and serve idols, Baalim and Ashtaroth;8248 8248
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.x Pg 33.2
Anf-03 v.x.iii Pg 4
Num. xxv. 1.
turned aside at Sethim, the people go to the daughters of Moab to gratify their lust: they are allured to the idols, so that they committed whoredom with the spirit also: finally, they eat of their defiled sacrifices; then they both worship the gods of the nation, and are admitted to the rites of Beelphegor. For this lapse, too, into idolatry, sister to adultery, it took the slaughter of twenty-three thousand by the swords of their countrymen to appease the divine anger. After the death of Joshua the son of Nave they forsake the God of their fathers, and serve idols, Baalim and Ashtaroth;8248 8248
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 25
VERSE (6) - :14,15; 22:4; 31:2,9-16
