Anf-01 v.vi.viii Pg 9
Phil. ii. 3.
but according to the doctrine of Christ. For I have heard some saying, If I do not find the Gospel in the archives, I will not believe it. To such persons I say that my archives are Jesus Christ, to disobey whom is manifest destruction. My authentic archives are His cross, and death, and resurrection, and the faith which bears on these things, by which I desire, through your prayers, to be justified. He who disbelieves the Gospel disbelieves everything along with it. For the archives ought not to be preferred to the Spirit.952 952 Or, “the archives of the Spirit are not exposed to all.”
“It is hard to kick against the pricks;”953 953
Anf-03 vi.vii.x Pg 3
See Gal. v. 26; Phil. ii. 3.
and malice, on the other, is always9112 9112 Nunquam non.
odious to the Lord; in this case indeed most of all, when, being provoked by a neighbour’s malice, it constitutes itself superior9113 9113 i.e. perhaps superior in degree of malice.
in following out revenge, and by paying wickedness doubles that which has once been done. Revenge, in the estimation of error,9114 9114 i.e. of the world and its erroneous philosophies.
seems a solace of pain; in the estimation of truth, on the contrary, it is convicted of malignity. For what difference is there between provoker and provoked, except that the former is detected as prior in evil-doing, but the latter as posterior? Yet each stands impeached of hurting a man in the eye of the Lord, who both prohibits and condemns every wickedness. In evil doing there is no account taken of order, nor does place separate what similarity conjoins. And the precept is absolute, that evil is not to be repaid with evil.9115 9115
Anf-03 vi.iii.xx Pg 10
Viz. by their murmuring for bread (see Ex. xvi. 3; 7); and again—nearly forty years after—in another place. See Num. xxi. 5.
For the people, after crossing the sea, and being carried about in the desert during forty years, although they were there nourished with divine supplies, nevertheless were more mindful of their belly and their gullet than of God. Thereupon the Lord, driven apart into desert places after baptism,8752 8752
Anf-01 v.iii.iii Pg 16
Ex. xvi. 8.
No one of those has, [in fact,] remained unpunished, who rose up against their superiors. For Dathan and Abiram did not speak against the law, but against Moses,657 657
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 43
Num. xiv. 27.
Moses, indeed, was as much an apostle as the apostles were prophets. The authority of both offices will have to be equally divided, as it proceeds from one and the same Lord, (the God) of apostles and prophets. Who is He that shall bestow “the power of treading on serpents and scorpions?”4455 4455
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (14) - :3 Ex 16:7,8 Nu 14:27 Ps 106:25 Mt 20:11 Mr 14:5 Ac 6:1
