Anf-02 vi.iv.iii Pg 60.1
Anf-03 v.vii.iii Pg 15
Gen. xxxii.
Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed into human bodily form,6983 6983 See below in chap. vi. and in the Anti-Marcion, iii. 9.
nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be God, after His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held in your belief, that the Creator’s angels are in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, and corrupted in others, the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would have been confuted in this matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the Spirit descended in the body6984 6984 Corpore.
of a dove, and sat upon the Lord.6985 6985
Anf-01 v.vi.iv Pg 14
1 Sam. xviii. 18; 2 Sam. vii. 18.
that I should pretend to be equal in honour to them? But as your “fellow-soldier,”916 916
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 32
VERSE (16) - Jer 12:1 Ge 32:9-12 2Sa 7:18-25 Eze 36:35-37 Php 4:6,7
