Anf-01 ix.vii.xxix Pg 4
Rev. xix. 20.
[this will happen according to divine appointment], God by His prescience foreseeing all this, and at the proper time sending such a man, “that they may believe a lie, that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but consented to unrighteousness;” whose coming John has thus described in the Apocalypse: “And the beast which I had seen was like unto a leopard, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon conferred his own power upon him, and his throne, and great might. And one of his heads was as it were slain unto death; and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon because he gave power to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto this beast, and who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemy and power was given to him during forty and two months. And he opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. And power was given him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation. And all who dwell upon the earth worshipped him, [every one] whose name was not written in the book of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any one have ears, let him hear. If any one shall lead into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If any shall slay with the sword, he must be slain with the sword. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.”4692 4692
Anf-03 iv.xi.lvii Pg 9
Ex. vii. 12.
Many attempts were also wrought against the apostles by the sorcerers Simon and Elymas,1824 1824
Anf-01 ix.iv.xxii Pg 28
Ex. viii. 19.
that the Egyptians themselves might testify that it is the finger of God which works salvation for the people, and not the son of Joseph. For if He were the son of Joseph, how could He be greater than Solomon, or greater than Jonah,3728 3728
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxvi Pg 37
Ex. viii. 19.
It was the finger of God, because it was a sign4563 4563 Significaret.
that even a thing of weakness was yet abundant in strength. This Christ also showed, when, recalling to notice (and not obliterating) those ancient wonders which were really His own,4564 4564 Vetustatum scilicet suarum.
He said that the power of God must be understood to be the finger of none other God than Him, under4565 4565 Apud.
whom it had received this appellation. His kingdom, therefore, was come near to them, whose power was called His “finger.” Well, therefore, did He connect4566 4566 Applicuit.
with the parable of “the strong man armed,” whom “a stronger man still overcame,”4567 4567
Anf-03 v.x.ii Pg 12
Deut. xiii. 1.
But also in another section,8238 8238 Of course our division of the Scripture by chapter and verse did not exist in the days of Tertullian.—Tr.
“If, however, thy brother, the son of thy father or of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thine own soul, solicit thee, saying secretly, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou knowest not, nor did thy fathers, of the gods of the nations which are round about thee, very nigh unto thee or far off from thee, do not consent to go with him, and do not hearken to him. Thine eye shall not spare him, neither shalt thou pity, neither shalt thou preserve him; thou shalt certainly inform upon him. Thine hand shall be first upon him to kill him, and afterwards the hand of thy people; and ye shall stone him, and he shall die, seeing he has sought to turn thee away from the Lord thy God.”8239 8239
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (13) - Re 16:14; 19:20 Ex 7:11,12,22; 8:7,18,19; 9:11 De 13:1-3 Mt 24:24
