Anf-01 viii.iv.cxxvi Pg 9
Num. xi. 23.
And again, in other words, it thus says: ‘But the Lord spoke unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan: the Lord thy God, who goeth before thy face, He shall cut off the nations.’2447 2447
Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 194.1
Anf-03 v.viii.xxvi Pg 14
Isa. li. 9, Sept.
that is to say, in that innocence which preceded the fall into sin. For how can words of this kind of exhortation and invitation be suitable for that Jerusalem which killed the prophets, and stoned those that were sent to them, and at last crucified its very Lord? Neither indeed is salvation promised to any one land at all, which must needs pass away with the fashion of the whole world. Even if anybody should venture strongly to contend that paradise is the holy land, which it may be possible to designate as the land of our first parents Adam and Eve, it will even then follow that the restoration of paradise will seem to be promised to the flesh, whose lot it was to inhabit and keep it, in order that man may be recalled thereto just such as he was driven from it.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 14
VERSE (9) - Nu 11:23; 14:15,16 Ps 44:23-26 Isa 50:1,2; 51:9; 59:1
