Anf-01 v.iii.ix Pg 10
Isa. xxxv. 4.
Let us therefore no longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness; for “he that does not work, let him not eat.”688 688 2 Thess. iii. 10.
For say the [holy] oracles, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread.”689 689
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 6
Isa. xxxv. 4.
Be strong is not vainly repeated, nor is fear not vainly added; because with the renewal of the limbs there was to be, according to the promise, a restoration also of bodily energies: “Arise, and take up thy couch;” and likewise moral courage3765 3765 Animi vigorem.
not to be afraid of those who should say, “Who can forgive sins, but God alone?” So that you have here not only the fulfilment of the prophecy which promised a particular kind of healing, but also of the symptoms which followed the cure. In like manner, you should also recognise Christ in the same prophet as the forgiver of sins. “For,” he says, “He shall remit to many their sins, and shall Himself take away our sins.”3766 3766
Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 70
See Isa. xxxv. 4, 5, 6.
and so on; which works not even you deny that Christ did, inasmuch as you were wont to say that, “on account of the works ye stoned Him not, but because He did them on the Sabbaths.”1312 1312
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 91
Npnf-201 iii.xvi.iv Pg 106
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xx Pg 17
The four books of the Kings were sometimes regarded as two, “the first” of which contained 1 and 2 Samuel, “the second” 1 and 2 Kings. The reference in this place is to 2 Samuel vii. 12.
makes a promise to David for his seed, “which shall proceed,” says he, “out of thy bowels.”3386 3386 He here again makes bowels synonymous with womb.
Now, if you explain this simply of Solomon, you will send me into a fit of laughter. For David will evidently have brought forth Solomon! But is not Christ here designated the seed of David, as of that womb which was derived from David, that is, Mary’s? Now, because Christ rather than any other3387 3387 Magis.
was to build the temple of God, that is to say, a holy manhood, wherein God’s Spirit might dwell as in a better temple, Christ rather than David’s son Solomon was to be looked for as3388 3388 Habendus in.
the Son of God. Then, again, the throne for ever with the kingdom for ever is more suited to Christ than to Solomon, a mere temporal king. From Christ, too, God’s mercy did not depart, whereas on Solomon even God’s anger alighted, after his luxury and idolatry. For Satan3389 3389
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xx Pg 17
The four books of the Kings were sometimes regarded as two, “the first” of which contained 1 and 2 Samuel, “the second” 1 and 2 Kings. The reference in this place is to 2 Samuel vii. 12.
makes a promise to David for his seed, “which shall proceed,” says he, “out of thy bowels.”3386 3386 He here again makes bowels synonymous with womb.
Now, if you explain this simply of Solomon, you will send me into a fit of laughter. For David will evidently have brought forth Solomon! But is not Christ here designated the seed of David, as of that womb which was derived from David, that is, Mary’s? Now, because Christ rather than any other3387 3387 Magis.
was to build the temple of God, that is to say, a holy manhood, wherein God’s Spirit might dwell as in a better temple, Christ rather than David’s son Solomon was to be looked for as3388 3388 Habendus in.
the Son of God. Then, again, the throne for ever with the kingdom for ever is more suited to Christ than to Solomon, a mere temporal king. From Christ, too, God’s mercy did not depart, whereas on Solomon even God’s anger alighted, after his luxury and idolatry. For Satan3389 3389
Anf-01 viii.iv.lii Pg 2
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