Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 251.1
Anf-02 vi.ii.ii Pg 39.1
Anf-03 iv.xi.xvi Pg 6
Eph. ii. 3.
he censures an irrational irascibility, such as proceeds not from that nature which is the production of God, but from that which the devil brought in, who is himself styled the lord or “master” of his own class, “Ye cannot serve two masters,”1603 1603
Anf-03 iv.xi.xxi Pg 11
Eph. ii. 3.
and, “Such were some of you, but ye are washed.”1661 1661
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 33
Eph. ii. 3.
he must not be understood to indicate that the Creator was the lord of sinful men, and the prince of this air; but as meaning that in his Judaism he had been one of the children of disobedience, having the devil as his instigator—when he persecuted the church and the Christ of the Creator. Therefore he says: “We also were the children of wrath,” but “by nature.”5979 5979
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 34
Eph. ii. 3.
Let the heretic, however, not contend that, because the Creator called the Jews children, therefore the Creator is the lord of wrath.5980 5980 In Marcion’s sense.
For when (the apostle) says, “We were by nature the children of wrath,” inasmuch as the Jews were not the Creator’s children by nature, but by the election of their fathers, he (must have) referred their being children of wrath to nature, and not to the Creator, adding this at last, “even as others,”5981 5981
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.xvii Pg 36
Eph. ii. 3.
who, of course, were not children of God. It is manifest that sins, and lusts of the flesh, and unbelief, and anger, are ascribed to the common nature of all mankind, the devil however leading that nature astray,5982 5982 Captante.
which he has already infected with the implanted germ of sin. “We,” says he, “are His workmanship, created in Christ.”5983 5983
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 2
VERSE (15) - Mt 3:7-9 Joh 8:39-41 Ro 4:16 Eph 2:3
