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Chapter
V.—Jesus Inconsistent in His Teaching.
“‘In saying this, Jesus is consistent
not even with himself. For sometimes by other utterances, taken
from the Scriptures, he presents God as being terrible and just,
saying,1323
“Fear
not him who killeth the body, but can do nothing to the soul; but fear
Him who is able to cast both body and soul into the Gehenna of
fire. Yea, I say unto you, fear Him.” But that he
asserted that He is really to be feared as being a just God, to whom he
says those who receive injustice cry, is shown in a parable of which he
gives the interpretation, saying:1324
“If, then, the unjust judge did so, because he was continually
entreated, how much more will the Father avenge those who cry to Him
day and night? Or do you think that, because He bears long with
them, He will not do it? Yea, I say to you, He will do it, and
that speedily.” Now he who speaks of God as an avenging and
rewarding God, presents Him as naturally just, and not as good.
Moreover he gives thanks to the Lord of heaven and earth.1325
But if He is Lord of heaven and
earth, He is acknowledged to be the framer of the world, and if framer,
then He is just. When, therefore, he sometimes calls Him good and
sometimes just, he is not consistent with himself in this
point.1326
| 1326 [Comp.
xviii. 1, etc.; also Recognitions, iii. 37,
38.—R.] | But his
wise disciple maintained yesterday a third point, that real
sight1327
| 1327 The
mss. read ἐνέργειαν,
“activity.” Clericus amended it into ἐνάργειαν, which
means, vision or sight in plain open day with one’s own eyes, in
opposition to the other word οπτασία, vision in
sleep, or ecstasy, or some similar unusual state. | is more satisfactory than vision, not
knowing that real sight can be human, but that vision confessedly
proceeds from divinity.
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