Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.xiii Pg 36.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xi Pg 15.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.vi Pg 5.1
Anf-03 v.v.xviii Pg 15
See Prov. viii.
Let Hermogenes then confess that the very Wisdom of God is declared to be born and created, for the especial reason that we should not suppose that there is any other being than God alone who is unbegotten and uncreated. For if that, which from its being inherent in the Lord6304 6304 Intra Dominum.
was of Him and in Him, was yet not without a beginning,—I mean6305 6305 Scilicet.
His wisdom, which was then born and created, when in the thought of God It began to assume motion6306 6306 Cœpti agitari.
for the arrangement of His creative works,—how much more impossible6307 6307 Multo magis non capit.
is it that anything should have been without a beginning which was extrinsic to the Lord!6308 6308 Extra Dominum.
But if this same Wisdom is the Word of God, in the capacity6309 6309 Sensu.
of Wisdom, and (as being He) without whom nothing was made, just as also (nothing) was set in order without Wisdom, how can it be that anything, except the Father, should be older, and on this account indeed nobler, than the Son of God, the only-begotten and first-begotten Word? Not to say that6310 6310 Nedum.
what is unbegotten is stronger than that which is born, and what is not made more powerful than that which is made. Because that which did not require a Maker to give it existence, will be much more elevated in rank than that which had an author to bring it into being. On this principle, then,6311 6311 Proinde.
if evil is indeed unbegotten, whilst the Son of God is begotten (“for,” says God, “my heart hath emitted my most excellent Word”6312 6312
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.vi Pg 5.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xiii Pg 9.1
Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.vi Pg 6.1
Anf-03 vi.vii.xiv Pg 4
Job. See Job i. and ii.
—whom neither the driving away of his cattle nor those riches of his in sheep, nor the sweeping away of his children in one swoop of ruin, nor, finally, the agony of his own body in (one universal) wound, estranged from the patience and the faith which he had plighted to the Lord; whom the devil smote with all his might in vain. For by all his pains he was not drawn away from his reverence for God; but he has been set up as an example and testimony to us, for the thorough accomplishment of patience as well in spirit as in flesh, as well in mind as in body; in order that we succumb neither to damages of our worldly goods, nor to losses of those who are dearest, nor even to bodily afflictions. What a bier9171 9171 “Feretrum”—for carrying trophies in a triumph, the bodies of the dead, and their effigies, etc.
for the devil did God erect in the person of that hero! What a banner did He rear over the enemy of His glory, when, at every bitter message, that man uttered nothing out of his mouth but thanks to God, while he denounced his wife, now quite wearied with ills, and urging him to resort to crooked remedies! How did God smile,9172 9172
Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xi Pg 26.1
Anf-01 ix.iv.xviii Pg 2
Isa. xi. 2.
as I have already said. And again: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me.”3615 3615
Anf-01 ix.iv.xviii Pg 14
Isa. xi. 2.
This Spirit, again, He did confer upon the Church, sending throughout all the world the Comforter from heaven, from whence also the Lord tells us that the devil, like lightning, was cast down.3625 3625
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xv Pg 11.2
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 63
See Isa. xi. 1, 2, especially in LXX.
For to none of men was the universal aggregation of spiritual credentials appropriate, except to Christ; paralleled as He is to a “flower” by reason of glory, by reason of grace; but accounted “of the root of Jesse,” whence His origin is to be deduced,—to wit, through Mary.1306 1306
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xvii Pg 11
Isa. xi. 1, 2.
Now to no man, except Christ, would the diversity of spiritual proofs suitably apply. He is indeed like a flower for the Spirit’s grace, reckoned indeed of the stem of Jesse, but thence to derive His descent through Mary. Now I purposely demand of you, whether you grant to Him the destination3335 3335 Intentionem.
of all this humiliation, and suffering, and tranquillity, from which He will be the Christ of Isaiah,—a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, who was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and who, like a lamb before the shearer, opened not His mouth;3336 3336
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 16
Isa. xi. 2.
He likewise will grant “the enlightenment of the eyes of the understanding,”5962 5962
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 27
Oehler refers to Isa. xix. 1. See, too, Isa. xxx. and xxxi.
So, again, Babylon, in our own John, is a figure of the city Rome, as being equally great and proud of her sway, and triumphant over the saints.1273 1273
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 62
Ps. xlv. 3, 4.
And whatever other things of a like nature are spoken regarding Him, these indicated that beauty and splendour which exist in His kingdom, along with the transcendent and pre-eminent exaltation [belonging] to all who are under His sway, that those who hear might desire to be found there, doing such things as are pleasing to God. Again, there are those who say, “He is a man, and who shall know him?”4303 4303
Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxviii Pg 0
Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 3.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xv Pg 5.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 34
Ps. xlv. 4 (xliv. 5 in LXX.).
Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles? See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,—that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened1279 1279
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 6
Ps. xlv. 4.
But who shall produce these results with the sword, and not their opposites rather—deceit, and harshness, and injury—which, it must be confessed, are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore, whether that is not some other sword, which has so different an action. Now the Apostle John, in the Apocalypse, describes a sword which proceeded from the mouth of God as “a doubly sharp, two-edged one.”3290 3290
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 12
Ps. xlv. 4, but changed.
even the might of Thy spiritual grace, whereby the knowledge of Christ is spread. “Thine arrows are sharp;”3296 3296
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xviii Pg 27.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 16
VERSE (16) - Pr 3:15-18; 4:7; 8:10,11,19 Job 28:13-28 Ps 119:127 Ec 7:12
