Anf-02 vi.iv.i.xxi Pg 70.1
Npnf-201 iii.viii.v Pg 16
Anf-01 ii.ii.xxiii Pg 4
Hab. ii. 3; Heb. x. 37.
and, “The Lord shall suddenly come to His temple, even the Holy One, for whom ye look.”101 101
Anf-01 iii.ii.ix Pg 2
Otto refers for a like contrast between these two times to Rom. iii. 21–26, Rom. v. 20 and Gal. iv. 4. [Comp. Acts xvii. 30.]
endured, He permitted us to be borne along by unruly impulses, being drawn away by the desire of pleasure and various lusts. This was not that He at all delighted in our sins, but that He simply endured them; nor that He approved the time of working iniquity which then was, but that He sought to form a mind conscious of righteousness,310 310 The reading and sense are doubtful.
so that being convinced in that time of our unworthiness of attaining life through our own works, it should now, through the kindness of God, be vouchsafed to us; and having made it manifest that in ourselves we were unable to enter into the kingdom of God, we might through the power of God be made able. But when our wickedness had reached its height, and it had been clearly shown that its reward,311 311 Both the text and rendering are here somewhat doubtful, but the sense will in any case be much the same.
punishment and death, was impending over us; and when the time had come which God had before appointed for manifesting His own kindness and power, how312 312 Many variations here occur in the way in which the lacuna of the mss. is to be supplied. They do not, however, greatly affect the meaning.
the one love of God, through exceeding regard for men, did not regard us with hatred, nor thrust us away, nor remember our iniquity against us, but showed great long-suffering, and bore with us,313 313
Anf-01 ix.iv.xvii Pg 42
Gal. iv. 4.
By which is made manifest, that all things which had been foreknown of the Father, our Lord did accomplish in their order, season, and hour, foreknown and fitting, being indeed one and the same, but rich and great. For He fulfils the bountiful and comprehensive will of His Father, inasmuch as He is Himself the Saviour of those who are saved, and the Lord of those who are under authority, and the God of all those things which have been formed, the only-begotten of the Father, Christ who was announced, and the Word of God, who became incarnate when the fulness of time had come, at which the Son of God had to become the Son of man.
Anf-01 ix.iv.xxiii Pg 3
Gal. iv. 4.
And again, in that to the Romans, he says, “Concerning His Son, who was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, who was predestinated as the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.”3741 3741
Anf-01 ix.vii.xxii Pg 5
Gal. iv. 4.
For indeed the enemy would not have been fairly vanquished, unless it had been a man [born] of a woman who conquered him. For it was by means of a woman that he got the advantage over man at first, setting himself up as man’s opponent. And therefore does the Lord profess Himself to be the Son of man, comprising in Himself that original man out of whom the woman was fashioned (ex quo ea quæ secundum mulierem est plasmatio facta est), in order that, as our species went down to death through a vanquished man, so we may ascend to life again through a victorious one; and as through a man death received the palm [of victory] against us, so again by a man we may receive the palm against death.
Anf-01 ix.iv.xvii Pg 13
Gal. iv. 4, 5.
plainly indicating one God, who did by the prophets make promise of the Son, and one Jesus Christ our Lord, who was of the seed of David according to His birth from Mary; and that Jesus Christ was appointed the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, as being the first begotten in all the creation;3579 3579
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.iv Pg 10
Gal. iv. 4.
—the God, of course, who is the Lord of that very succession of times which constitutes an age; who also ordained, as “signs” of time, suns and moons and constellations and stars; who furthermore both predetermined and predicted that the revelation of His Son should be postponed to the end of the times.5330 5330 In extremitatem temporum.
“It shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain (of the house) of the Lord shall be manifested”;5331 5331
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.viii Pg 28
Gal. iv. 4.
and again, “This I say, brethren, that the time is short”5555 5555
Anf-03 v.vii.xx Pg 9
Gal. iv. 4.
Does he mean through a woman, or in a woman? Nay more, for the sake of greater emphasis, he uses the word “made” rather than born, although the use of the latter expression would have been simpler. But by saying “made,” he not only confirmed the statement, “The Word was made flesh,”7218 7218
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.iv Pg 9
So, instead of pursuing the contents of chap. iii., he proceeds to such of chap. iv. as Marcion reserved.
“But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son”5329 5329
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes x.xiii Pg 57.2
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (3) - Da 8:23; 9:24-27; 10:1; 11:27 Hab 2:3 Ac 17:26 Ro 5:6 Ga 4:4
