Anf-01 ii.ii.iv Pg 2
Gen. iv. 3–8. The writer here, as always, follows the reading of the Septuagint, which in this passage both alters and adds to the Hebrew text. We have given the rendering approved by the best critics; but some prefer to translate, as in our English version, “unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.” See, for an ancient explanation of the passage, Irenæus, Adv. Hær., iv. 18, 3.
Ye see, brethren, how envy and jealousy led to the murder of a brother. Through envy, also, our father Jacob fled from the face of Esau his brother.19 19
Anf-01 ii.ii.iv Pg 3
Gen. xxvii. 41, etc.
Envy made Joseph be persecuted unto death, and to come into bondage.20 20
Anf-03 v.vii.iii Pg 15
Gen. xxxii.
Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed into human bodily form,6983 6983 See below in chap. vi. and in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 9.
nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be God, after His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held in your belief, that the Creator’s angels are in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body6984 6984 Corpore.
of a dove, and sat upon the Lord.6985 6985
Anf-01 ii.ii.iv Pg 4
Gen. xxxvii.
Envy compelled Moses to flee from the face of Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he heard these words from his fellow-countryman, “Who made thee a judge or a ruler over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?”21 21
Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 21
Manifested e.g., in his two dreams. See Gen. xxxvii.
just as Christ was sold by Israel—(and therefore,) “according to the flesh,” by His “brethren”1329 1329
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xix Pg 24
Anf-01 ii.ii.iv Pg 4
Gen. xxxvii.
Envy compelled Moses to flee from the face of Pharaoh king of Egypt, when he heard these words from his fellow-countryman, “Who made thee a judge or a ruler over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian yesterday?”21 21
Anf-03 iv.ix.x Pg 21
Manifested e.g., in his two dreams. See Gen. xxxvii.
just as Christ was sold by Israel—(and therefore,) “according to the flesh,” by His “brethren”1329 1329
Npnf-201 iii.vii.xix Pg 24
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 18
VERSE (19) - Pr 6:19 Ge 4:5-8; 27:41-45; 32:6-11; 37:3-5,11,18-27 2Sa 13:22,28
