But whatever we wish for ourselves we augur for Him, and to Him we attribute what from Him we expect. And so, if the manifestation of the Lord’s kingdom pertains unto the will of God and unto our anxious expectation, how do some pray for some protraction of the age,8791
And it so happened as the Lord had spoken. Let us inquire, then, if there still is a temple of God. There is—where He himself declared He would make and finish it. For it is written, “And it shall come to pass, when the week is completed, the temple of God shall be built in glory in the name of the Lord.”1678
1678
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 firewhich 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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
also does in like manner not at all harmonize with their expositions. Moreover, the table of shew-bread3162
3162
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 firewhich 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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
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 Christἔκτρωμα, 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.
to God, is as one that touches the apple of God’s eye, how much more so is he that touches His beloved! And that this is He, has been sufficiently demonstrated.”
And in Leviticus: ‘Because they have transgressed against Me, and despised Me, and because they have walked contrary to Me, I also walked contrary to them, and I shall cut them off in the land of their enemies. Then shall their uncircumcisedheart be turned.1983
But the Sabbaths taught that we should continue day by day in God’s service.3988
3988 The Latin text here is: “Sabbata autem perseverantiam totius diei erga Deum deservitionis edocebant;” which might be rendered, “The Sabbaths taught that we should continue the whole day in the service of God;” but Harvey conceives the original Greek to have been, τὴν καθημερινὴν διαμονὴν τῆς περὶ τὸν Θεὸν λατρείας.
—not the literalflesh. If, now, he were for excluding circumcision, as the messenger of a new god, why does he say that “in Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision?”5361
