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PARALLEL HISTORY BIBLE - Isaiah 44:28


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LXX- Greek Septuagint - Isaiah 44:28

ο 3588 3739 λεγων 3004 5723 κυρω φρονειν 5426 5721 και 2532 παντα 3956 τα 3588 θεληματα 2307 μου 3450 ποιησει 4160 4162 5692 ο 3588 3739 λεγων 3004 5723 ιερουσαλημ 2419 οικοδομηθηση και 2532 τον 3588 οικον 3624 τον 3588 αγιον 39 μου 3450 θεμελιωσω

Douay Rheims Bible

Who say to Cyrus: Thou art my shepherd, and thou shalt perform all my pleasure. Who say to Jerusalem: Thou shalt be built: and to the temple: Thy foundations shall be laid.

King James Bible - Isaiah 44:28

That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

World English Bible

Who says of Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,' even saying of Jerusalem, 'She will be built;' and of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid.'"

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Isaiah 44:28

Early Christian Commentary - (A.D. 100 - A.D. 325)

Anf-03 v.v.xxxiv Pg 13
Isa. xlii. 15.

and “they shall seek water, and they shall find none.”6500

6500 *marg:


Anf-01 ix.iv.vii Pg 20
Jer. x. 11.

For, from the fact of his having subjoined their destruction, he shows them to be no gods at all. Elias, too, when all Israel was assembled at Mount Carmel, wishing to turn them from idolatry, says to them, “How long halt ye between two opinions?3346

3346 Literally, “In both houghs,” in ambabus suffraginibus.

If the Lord be God,3347

3347 The old Latin translation has, “Si unus est Dominus Deus”—If the Lord God is one; which is supposed by the critics to have occurred through carelessness of the translator.

follow Him.”3348

3348


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 25.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 153.1


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.xxxv Pg 8.1


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 25.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 153.1


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.xxxv Pg 8.1


Anf-01 ix.iii.iii Pg 12
Gen. i. 1.

and all other things in succession; but neither gods nor angels [had any share in the work].


Anf-01 viii.vi.xxviii Pg 5
Gen. i. 1.

then the sun, and the moon, and the stars. For having learned this in Egypt, and having been much taken with what Moses had written in the Genesis of the world, he fabled that Vulcan had made in the shield of Achilles a kind of representation of the creation of the world. For he wrote thus:2568

2568 Iliad, xviii. 483.

“There he described the earth, the heaven, the sea, The sun that rests not, and the moon full-orb’d; There also, all the stars which round about, As with a radiant frontlet, bind the skies.”


Anf-01 ix.ii.xix Pg 2
Gen. i. 1.

for, as they maintain, by naming these four,—God, beginning, heaven, and earth,—he set forth their Tetrad. Indicating also its invisible and hidden nature, he said, “Now the earth was invisible and unformed.”2880

2880


Anf-02 iii.ii.v Pg 5.1


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 6.1


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 30.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.vii Pg 8.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xiv Pg 17.1


Anf-03 v.iv.iii.iv Pg 8
Gen. i.

not as if He were ignorant of the good until He saw it; but because it was good, He therefore saw it, and honoured it, and set His seal upon it; and consummated2745

2745 Dispungens, i.e., examinans et probans et ita quasi consummans (Oehler).

the goodness of His works by His vouchsafing to them that contemplation. Thus God blessed what He made good, in order that He might commend Himself to you as whole and perfect, good both in word and act.2746

2746 This twofold virtue is very tersely expressed: “Sic et benedicebat quæ benefaciebat.”

As yet the Word knew no malediction, because He was a stranger to malefaction.2747

2747 This, the translator fears, is only a clumsy way of representing the terseness of our author’s “maledicere” and “malefacere.”

We shall see what reasons required this also of God. Meanwhile the world consisted of all things good, plainly foreshowing how much good was preparing for him for whom all this was provided. Who indeed was so worthy of dwelling amongst the works of God, as he who was His own image and likeness? That image was wrought out by a goodness even more operative than its wont,2748

2748 Bonitas et quidem operantior.

with no imperious word, but with friendly hand preceded by an almost affable2749

2749 Blandiente.

utterance: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”2750

2750


Anf-03 v.v.iii Pg 11
Gen. i. 1.

and as long as He continued making, one after the other, those things of which He was to be the Lord, it merely mentions God.  “And God said,” “and God made,” “and God saw;”6160

6160


Anf-03 v.v.xix Pg 6
Gen. i. 1.

just as it would have said, “At last God made the heaven and the earth,” if God had created these after all the rest.  Now, if the beginning is a substance, the end must also be material. No doubt, a substantial thing6320

6320 Substantivum aliquid.

may be the beginning of some other thing which may be formed out of it; thus the clay is the beginning of the vessel, and the seed is the beginning of the plant. But when we employ the word beginning in this sense of origin, and not in that of order, we do not omit to mention also the name of that particular thing which we regard as the origin of the other. On the other hand,6321

6321 De cetero.

if we were to make such a statement as this, for example, “In the beginning the potter made a basin or a water-jug,” the word beginning will not here indicate a material substance (for I have not mentioned the clay, which is the beginning in this sense, but only the order of the work, meaning that the potter made the basin and the jug first, before anything else—intending afterwards to make the rest. It is, then, to the order of the works that the word beginning has reference, not to the origin of their substances. I might also explain this word beginning in another way, which would not, however, be inapposite.6322

6322 Non ab re tamen.

The Greek term for beginning, which is ἀρχή, admits the sense not only of priority of order, but of power as well; whence princes and magistrates are called ἀρχοντες. Therefore in this sense too, beginning may be taken for princely authority and power. It was, indeed, in His transcendent authority and power, that God made the heaven and the earth.


Anf-03 v.v.xx Pg 12
Gen. i. 1.

—“and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  All things were made by Him, and without Him nothing was made.”6333

6333


Anf-03 v.v.xxii Pg 9
Gen. i. 1.

I revere6345

6345 Adoro: reverently admire.

the fulness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and the creation. In the gospel, moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.6346

6346


Anf-03 v.v.xxvi Pg 3
Gen. i. 1.

The Scripture, which at its very outset proposes to run through the order thereof tells us as its first information that it was created; it next proceeds to set forth what sort of earth it was.6367

6367 Qualitatem ejus: unless this means “how He made it,” like the “qualiter fecerit” below.

In like manner with respect to the heaven, it informs us first of its creation—“In the beginning God made the heaven:”6368

6368


Anf-03 v.v.xxvi Pg 5
Gen. i. 1.

it then goes on to introduce its arrangement; how that God both separated “the water which was below the firmament from that which was above the firmament,”6369

6369


Anf-03 v.v.xxix Pg 29
Cum cælo separavit: Gen. i. 1.



Anf-03 v.v.xxvi Pg 17
Gen. i. 1, 2.

—the very same earth, no doubt, which God made, and of which the Scripture had been speaking at that very moment.6381

6381 Cum maxime edixerat.

For that very “but6382

6382 The “autem” of the note just before this.

is inserted into the narrative like a clasp,6383

6383 Fibula.

(in its function) of a conjunctive particle, to connect the two sentences indissolubly together: “But the earth.” This word carries back the mind to that earth of which mention had just been made, and binds the sense thereunto.6384

6384 Alligat sensum.

Take away this “but,” and the tie is loosened; so much so that the passage, “But the earth was without form, and void,” may then seem to have been meant for any other earth.


Anf-03 vi.iii.iii Pg 8
Gen. i. 1, 2, and comp. the LXX.

The first thing, O man, which you have to venerate, is the age of the waters in that their substance is ancient; the second, their dignity, in that they were the seat of the Divine Spirit, more pleasing to Him, no doubt, than all the other then existing elements. For the darkness was total thus far, shapeless, without the ornament of stars; and the abyss gloomy; and the earth unfurnished; and the heaven unwrought: water8557

8557 Liquor.

alone—always a perfect, gladsome, simple material substance, pure in itself—supplied a worthy vehicle to God.  What of the fact that waters were in some way the regulating powers by which the disposition of the world thenceforward was constituted by God?  For the suspension of the celestial firmament in the midst He caused by “dividing the waters;”8558

8558


Anf-03 v.iv.iii.iv Pg 8
Gen. i.

not as if He were ignorant of the good until He saw it; but because it was good, He therefore saw it, and honoured it, and set His seal upon it; and consummated2745

2745 Dispungens, i.e., examinans et probans et ita quasi consummans (Oehler).

the goodness of His works by His vouchsafing to them that contemplation. Thus God blessed what He made good, in order that He might commend Himself to you as whole and perfect, good both in word and act.2746

2746 This twofold virtue is very tersely expressed: “Sic et benedicebat quæ benefaciebat.”

As yet the Word knew no malediction, because He was a stranger to malefaction.2747

2747 This, the translator fears, is only a clumsy way of representing the terseness of our author’s “maledicere” and “malefacere.”

We shall see what reasons required this also of God. Meanwhile the world consisted of all things good, plainly foreshowing how much good was preparing for him for whom all this was provided. Who indeed was so worthy of dwelling amongst the works of God, as he who was His own image and likeness? That image was wrought out by a goodness even more operative than its wont,2748

2748 Bonitas et quidem operantior.

with no imperious word, but with friendly hand preceded by an almost affable2749

2749 Blandiente.

utterance: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”2750

2750


Anf-03 v.ix.xii Pg 9
Gen. i. 6, 7.

and God also said, “Let there be lights (in the firmament); and so God made a greater and a lesser light.”7901

7901


Anf-03 vi.iii.iii Pg 10
Gen. i. 6, 7, 8.

the suspension of “the dry land” He accomplished by “separating the waters.” After the world had been hereupon set in order through its elements, when inhabitants were given it, “the waters” were the first to receive the precept “to bring forth living creatures.”8559

8559 Animas.

Water was the first to produce that which had life, that it might be no wonder in baptism if waters know how to give life.8560

8560 Animare.

For was not the work of fashioning man himself also achieved with the aid of waters?  Suitable material is found in the earth, yet not apt for the purpose unless it be moist and juicy; which (earth) “the waters,” separated the fourth day before into their own place, temper with their remaining moisture to a clayey consistency. If, from that time onward, I go forward in recounting universally, or at more length, the evidences of the “authority” of this element which I can adduce to show how great is its power or its grace; how many ingenious devices, how many functions, how useful an instrumentality, it affords the world, I fear I may seem to have collected rather the praises of water than the reasons of baptism; although I should thereby teach all the more fully, that it is not to be doubted that God has made the material substance which He has disposed throughout all His products8561

8561 Rebus.

and works, obey Him also in His own peculiar sacraments; that the material substance which governs terrestrial life acts as agent likewise in the celestial.


Anf-01 viii.iv.lxxxv Pg 5
Ps. cxlviii. 1, 2. [Kaye’s citations (chap. ix. p. 181) from Tatian, concerning angels and demons, are valuable aids to the understanding of Justin in his frequent references to this subject.]


Anf-01 ix.iii.iii Pg 11
Ps. xxxiii. 9, Ps. cxlviii. 5.

Whom, therefore, shall we believe as to the creation of the world—these heretics who have been mentioned that prate so foolishly and inconsistently on the subject, or the disciples of the Lord, and Moses, who was both a faithful servant of God and a prophet? He at first narrated the formation of the world in these words: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,”2996

2996


Anf-01 ix.iii.xxxv Pg 8
Ps. cxlviii. 5, 6.

And again, He thus speaks respecting the salvation of man: “He asked life of Thee, and Thou gavest him length of days for ever and ever;”3292

3292


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.iii Pg 15.1


Anf-01 ix.vii.xv Pg 3
Gen. ix. 5, 6, LXX.

and again, “Whosoever will shed man’s blood,4565

4565 One of the mss. reads here: Sanguis pro sanguine ejus effundetur.

it shall be shed for his blood.” In like manner, too, did the Lord say to those who should afterwards shed His blood, “All righteous blood shall be required which is shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.”4566

4566


Anf-01 v.xv.ii Pg 6
Gen. v. 1, Gen. ix. 6.

And that [the Son of God] was to be made man [Moses shows when] he says, “A prophet shall the Lord raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me.”1223

1223


Anf-03 v.viii.xxxix Pg 9
Gen. ix. 5, 6.

He declared it then to be of such a character as the Pharisees had admitted it, and such as the Lord had Himself maintained it, and such too as the Sadducees refused to believe it—such refusal leading them indeed to an absolute rejection of the whole verity. Nor had the Athenians previously understood Paul to announce any other resurrection.7542

7542


Anf-03 iv.iv.xv Pg 6
See Gen. i. 26, 27; ix. 6; and comp. 1 Cor. xi. 7.

to God; so as to render to Cæsar indeed money, to God yourself. Otherwise, what will be God’s, if all things are Cæsar’s? “Then,” do you say, “the lamps before my doors, and the laurels on my posts are an honour to God?” They are there of course, not because they are an honour to God, but to him who is honour in God’s stead by ceremonial observances of that kind, so far as is manifest, saving the religious performance, which is in secret appertaining to demons. For we ought to be sure if there are any whose notice it escapes through ignorance of this world’s literature, that there are among the Romans even gods of entrances; Cardea (Hinge-goddess), called after hinges, and Forculus (Door-god) after doors, and Limentinus (Threshold-god) after the threshold, and Janus himself (Gate-god) after the gate: and of course we know that, though names be empty and feigned, yet, when they are drawn down into superstition, demons and every unclean spirit seize them for themselves, through the bond of consecration. Otherwise demons have no name individually, but they there find a name where they find also a token. Among the Greeks likewise we read of Apollo Thyræus, i.e. of the door, and the Antelii, or Anthelii, demons, as presiders over entrances. These things, therefore, the Holy Spirit foreseeing from the beginning, fore-chanted, through the most ancient prophet Enoch, that even entrances would come into superstitious use. For we see too that other entrances280

280 The word is the same as that for “the mouth” of a river, etc. Hence Oehler supposes the “entrances” or “mouths” here referred to to be the mouths of fountains, where nymphs were supposed to dwell. Nympha is supposed to be the same word as Lympha. See Hor. Sat. i. 5, 97; and Macleane’s note.

are adored in the baths. But if there are beings which are adored in entrances, it is to them that both the lamps and the laurels will pertain. To an idol you will have done whatever you shall have done to an entrance. In this place I call a witness on the authority also of God; because it is not safe to suppress whatever may have been shown to one, of course for the sake of all. I know that a brother was severely chastised, the same night, through a vision, because on the sudden announcement of public rejoicings his servants had wreathed his gates.  And yet himself had not wreathed, or commanded them to be wreathed; for he had gone forth from home before, and on his return had reprehended the deed.  So strictly are we appraised with God in matters of this kind, even with regard to the discipline of our family.281

281 [He seems to refer to some Providential event, perhaps announced in a dream, not necessarily out of the course of common occurrences.]

Therefore, as to what relates to the honours due to kings or emperors, we have a prescript sufficient, that it behoves us to be in all obedience, according to the apostle’s precept,282

282


Anf-03 iv.ix.iv Pg 5
See Ex. xx. 8–; 11 and xii. 16 (especially in the LXX.).

always, and not only every seventh day, but through all time. And through this arises the question for us, what sabbath God willed us to keep? For the Scriptures point to a sabbath eternal and a sabbath temporal. For Isaiah the prophet says, “Your sabbaths my soul hateth;”1189

1189


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 70.1


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 70.1


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-01 v.vii.i Pg 6
Isa. v. 26, Isa. xlix. 22.

for all ages, through His resurrection, to all His holy and faithful [followers], whether among Jews or Gentiles, in the one body of His Church.


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xiv Pg 27
Isa. v. 26.

swiftly, because hastening towards the fulness of the times; with speed, because unclogged by the weights of the ancient law. They shall neither hunger nor thirst. Therefore they shall be filled,—a promise which is made to none but those who hunger and thirst. And again He says: “Behold, my servants shall be filled, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty.”3959

3959


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 70.1


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxix Pg 42
Vel: or, “if you please;” indicating some uncertainty in the quotation. The passage is more like Jer. xv. 14 than anything in Isaiah (see, however, Isa. xxx. 27; 30).

by Isaiah, “A fire has been kindled in mine anger.” He cannot lie. If it is not He who uttered His voice out of even the burning bush, it can be of no importance4691

4691 Viderit.

what fire you insist upon being understood.  Even if it be but figurative fire, yet, from the very fact that he takes from my element illustrations for His own sense, He is mine, because He uses what is mine. The similitude of fire must belong to Him who owns the reality thereof. But He will Himself best explain the quality of that fire which He mentioned, when He goes on to say, “Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division.”4692

4692


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-02 vi.iii.i.ix Pg 70.1


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-03 v.iii.vii Pg 11
“De enthymesi;” for this word Tertullian gives animationem (in his tract against Valentinus, ix.), which seems to mean, “the mind in operation.” (See the same treatise, x. xi.) With regard to the other word, Jerome (on Amos. iii.) adduces Valentinus as calling Christ ἔκτρωμα, that is, abortion.

Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up and pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions,1920

1920 Sententiis.

so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments, so productive of contentions—embarrassing1921

1921 Molestam.

even to itself, retracting everything, and really treating of1922

1922 Tractaverit, in the sense of conclusively settling.

nothing! Whence spring those “fables and endless genealogies,”1923

1923


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.v.viii Pg 30.1


Npnf-201 iii.xv.ix Pg 22


Npnf-201 iv.vi.i.xxxviii Pg 12


Npnf-201 iii.xvi.i Pg 15


Anf-03 iv.vi.xiii Pg 6
Ps. xx. 7.

From so much as a dwelling in that Babylon of John’s Revelation432

432


Npnf-201 iii.xvi.i Pg 15


Anf-01 vi.ii.xii Pg 26
Isa. xlv. 1.

Behold how David calleth Him Lord and the Son of God.


Anf-03 iv.ix.vii Pg 3
The reference is to Isa. xlv. 1. A glance at the LXX. will at once explain the difference between the reading of our author and the genuine reading. One letter—an “ι”—makes all the difference. For Κύρῳ has been read Κυρίῳ. In the Eng. ver. we read “His Anointed.”

whose right hand I have holden, that the nations may hear Him: the powers of kings will I burst asunder; I will open before Him the gates, and the cities shall not be closed to Him.” Which very thing we see fulfilled. For whose right hand does God the Father hold but Christ’s, His Son?—whom all nations have heard, that is, whom all nations have believed,—whose preachers, withal, the apostles, are pointed to in the Psalms of David: “Into the universal earth,” says he, “is gone out their sound, and unto the ends of the earth their words.”1219

1219


Anf-03 v.ix.xi Pg 18
Isa. xlv. 1.

Likewise, in the same prophet, He says to the Father respecting the Son: “Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We brought a report concerning Him, as if He were a little child, as if He were a root in a dry ground, who had no form nor comeliness.”7891

7891


Anf-03 v.ix.xxviii Pg 12
Here Tertullian reads τῷ Χριστῷ μου Κυρίῳ, instead of Κύρῳ, “to Cyrus,” in Isa. xlv. 1.

the Lord who speaks to the Father of Christ must be a distinct Being. Moreover, when the apostle in his epistle prays, “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of knowledge,”8172

8172


Anf-03 iv.ix.vii Pg 6
See Isa. xlv. 1, 2 (especially in Lowth’s version and the LXX.).

opened. Although there be withal a spiritual sense to be affixed to these expressions,—that the hearts of individuals, blockaded in various ways by the devil, are unbarred by the faith of Christ,—still they have been evidently fulfilled, inasmuch as in all these places dwells the “people” of the Name of Christ. For who could have reigned over all nations but Christ, God’s Son, who was ever announced as destined to reign over all to eternity? For if Solomonreigned,” why, it was within the confines of Judea merely:  “from Beersheba unto Dan” the boundaries of his kingdom are marked.1222

1222


Anf-01 vi.ii.xi Pg 7
Isa. xlv. 2, 3.

And “He shall dwell in a lofty cave of the strong rock.”1597

1597


Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.ix Pg 12.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.vii Pg 6
See Isa. xlv. 1, 2 (especially in Lowth’s version and the LXX.).

opened. Although there be withal a spiritual sense to be affixed to these expressions,—that the hearts of individuals, blockaded in various ways by the devil, are unbarred by the faith of Christ,—still they have been evidently fulfilled, inasmuch as in all these places dwells the “people” of the Name of Christ. For who could have reigned over all nations but Christ, God’s Son, who was ever announced as destined to reign over all to eternity? For if Solomonreigned,” why, it was within the confines of Judea merely:  “from Beersheba unto Dan” the boundaries of his kingdom are marked.1222

1222


Anf-02 vi.iii.iii.iii Pg 11.1


Anf-01 vi.ii.xii Pg 26
Isa. xlv. 1.

Behold how David calleth Him Lord and the Son of God.


Anf-03 iv.ix.vii Pg 3
The reference is to Isa. xlv. 1. A glance at the LXX. will at once explain the difference between the reading of our author and the genuine reading. One letter—an “ι”—makes all the difference. For Κύρῳ has been read Κυρίῳ. In the Eng. ver. we read “His Anointed.”

whose right hand I have holden, that the nations may hear Him: the powers of kings will I burst asunder; I will open before Him the gates, and the cities shall not be closed to Him.” Which very thing we see fulfilled. For whose right hand does God the Father hold but Christ’s, His Son?—whom all nations have heard, that is, whom all nations have believed,—whose preachers, withal, the apostles, are pointed to in the Psalms of David: “Into the universal earth,” says he, “is gone out their sound, and unto the ends of the earth their words.”1219

1219


Anf-03 v.ix.xi Pg 18
Isa. xlv. 1.

Likewise, in the same prophet, He says to the Father respecting the Son: “Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We brought a report concerning Him, as if He were a little child, as if He were a root in a dry ground, who had no form nor comeliness.”7891

7891


Anf-03 v.ix.xxviii Pg 12
Here Tertullian reads τῷ Χριστῷ μου Κυρίῳ, instead of Κύρῳ, “to Cyrus,” in Isa. xlv. 1.

the Lord who speaks to the Father of Christ must be a distinct Being. Moreover, when the apostle in his epistle prays, “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and of knowledge,”8172

8172


Anf-03 iv.ix.vii Pg 6
See Isa. xlv. 1, 2 (especially in Lowth’s version and the LXX.).

opened. Although there be withal a spiritual sense to be affixed to these expressions,—that the hearts of individuals, blockaded in various ways by the devil, are unbarred by the faith of Christ,—still they have been evidently fulfilled, inasmuch as in all these places dwells the “people” of the Name of Christ. For who could have reigned over all nations but Christ, God’s Son, who was ever announced as destined to reign over all to eternity? For if Solomonreigned,” why, it was within the confines of Judea merely:  “from Beersheba unto Dan” the boundaries of his kingdom are marked.1222

1222


Anf-01 ix.ii.vi Pg 11
Isa. xlv. 5, 6, Isa. xlvi. 9.

They further teach that the spirits of wickedness derived their origin from grief. Hence the devil, whom they also call Cosmocrator (the ruler of the world), and the demons, and the angels, and every wicked spiritual being that exists, found the source of their existence. They represent the Demiurge as being the son of that mother of theirs (Achamoth), and Cosmocrator as the creature of the Demiurge. Cosmocrator has knowledge of what is above himself, because he is a spirit of wickedness; but the Demiurge is ignorant of such things, inasmuch as he is merely animal. Their mother dwells in that place which is above the heavens, that is, in the intermediate abode; the Demiurge in the heavenly place, that is, in the hebdomad; but the Cosmocrator in this our world. The corporeal elements of the world, again, sprang, as we before remarked, from bewilderment and perplexity, as from a more ignoble source. Thus the earth arose from her state of stupor; water from the agitation caused by her fear; air from the consolidation of her grief; while fire, producing death and corruption, was inherent in all these elements, even as they teach that ignorance also lay concealed in these three passions.


Anf-01 ix.ii.xxx Pg 9
Ex. xx. 5; Isa. xlv. 5, 6.

Such are the falsehoods which these people invent.


Anf-01 ix.vii.xxxi Pg 7
Jer. viii. 16.

This, too, is the reason that this tribe is not reckoned in the Apocalypse along with those which are saved.4705

4705


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 31.3


Anf-03 v.ix.xvi Pg 17
Joel ii. 10; Ps. xcvii. 5.

who holdeth the whole world in His hand “like a nest;”7976

7976


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 15.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.iv.xxi Pg 58.1


Anf-02 vi.ii.viii Pg 16.1


Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 62
Ps. xlv. 3, 4.

And whatever other things of a like nature are spoken regarding Him, these indicated that beauty and splendour which exist in His kingdom, along with the transcendent and pre-eminent exaltation [belonging] to all who are under His sway, that those who hear might desire to be found there, doing such things as are pleasing to God. Again, there are those who say, “He is a man, and who shall know him?”4303

4303


Anf-01 viii.iv.xxxviii Pg 0


Anf-02 iv.ii.ii.x Pg 3.1


Anf-02 vi.iv.vi.xv Pg 5.1


Anf-03 iv.ix.ix Pg 34
Ps. xlv. 4 (xliv. 5 in LXX.).

Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles?  See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,—that is, the Divine word of God, doubly sharpened1279

1279


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 6
Ps. xlv. 4.

But who shall produce these results with the sword, and not their opposites rather—deceit, and harshness, and injury—which, it must be confessed, are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore, whether that is not some other sword, which has so different an action. Now the Apostle John, in the Apocalypse, describes a sword which proceeded from the mouth of God as “a doubly sharp, two-edged one.”3290

3290


Anf-03 v.iv.iv.xiv Pg 12
Ps. xlv. 4, but changed.

even the might of Thy spiritual grace, whereby the knowledge of Christ is spread. “Thine arrows are sharp;”3296

3296


Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 44

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