Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xxii Pg 9
Comp. Ps. ii. 2, 3, with Acts iv. 25–30.
What did the apostles thereupon suffer? You answer: Every sort of iniquitous persecutions, from men that belonged indeed to that Creator who was the adversary of Him whom they were preaching. Then why does the Creator, if an adversary of Christ, not only predict that the apostles should incur this suffering, but even express His displeasure3407 3407 Exprobrat.
thereat? For He ought neither to predict the course of the other god, whom, as you contend, He knew not, nor to have expressed displeasure at that which He had taken care to bring about. “See how the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and how merciful men are taken away, and no man considereth. For the righteous man has been removed from the evil person.”3408 3408
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 4
VERSE (30) - Ex 6:6 De 4:34 Jer 15:15; 20:11,12 Lu 9:54-56; 22:49-51
