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Chapter
LXXII.
After the above statements, he continues:
“If he wished to remain hid, why was there heard a voice from
heaven proclaiming him to be the Son of God? And if he did not
seek to remain concealed, why was he punished? or why did he
die?” Now, by such questions he thinks to convict the
histories of discrepancy, not observing that Jesus neither desired all
things regarding Himself to be known to all whom He happened to meet,
nor yet all things to be unknown. Accordingly, the voice from
heaven which proclaimed Him to be the Son of God, in the words,
“This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased,”3404
is not stated to
have been audible to the multitudes, as this Jew of Celsus
supposed. The voice from the cloud on the high mountain,
moreover, was heard only by those who had gone up with Him. For
the divine voice is of such a nature, as to be heard only by those whom
the speaker wishes to hear it. And I maintain, that the voice of
God which is referred to, is neither air which has been struck, nor any
concussion of the air, nor anything else which is mentioned in
treatises on the voice;3405
| 3405 οὐδέπω δὲ
λέγω, ὅτι οὐ
πάντως ἐστὶν
ἀὴρ
πεπληγμένος·
ἢ πληγὴ
ἀέρος, ἢ ὅ τι
ποτὲ λέγεται
ἐν τοῖς περὶ
φωνῆς. | and therefore it is
heard by a better and more divine organ of hearing than that of
sense. And when the speaker will not have his voice to be heard
by all, he that has the finer ear hears the voice of God, while he who
has the ears of his soul deadened does not perceive that it is God who
speaks. These things I have mentioned because of his asking,
“Why was there heard a voice from heaven proclaiming him to be
the Son of God?” while with respect to the query, “Why was
he punished, if he wished to remain hid?” what has been stated at
greater length in the preceding pages on the subject of His suffering
may suffice.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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