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
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 3
VERSE (18) - Sir 3:18; Phil 2:3; .
