Anf-03 iv.ix.v Pg 4
See Gen. iv. 2–14. But it is to be observed that the version given in our author differs widely in some particulars from the Heb. and the LXX.
From this proceeding we gather that the twofold sacrifices of “the peoples” were even from the very beginning foreshown. In short, when the sacerdotal law was being drawn up, through Moses, in Leviticus, we find it prescribed to the people of Israel that sacrifices should in no other place be offered to God than in the land of promise; which the Lord God was about to give to “the people” Israel and to their brethren, in order that, on Israel’s introduction thither, there should there be celebrated sacrifices and holocausts, as well for sins as for souls; and nowhere else but in the holy land.1199 1199
Anf-03 vi.ii.xii Pg 8
Or, as some read, “in the cross.”
And in another prophet He declares, “All day long I have stretched forth My hands to an unbelieving people, and one that gainsays My righteous way.”1612 1612
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xvii Pg 8
Dan. iv. 33.
that mercy, too, which conceded to the devotion of the people the son of Saul when about to die,2904 2904
Anf-03 vi.vii.xiii Pg 10
Dan. iv. 33–37. Comp. de Pæn. c. 12. [I have removed an ambiguity by slightly touching the text here.]
after being exiled from human form in his seven years’ squalor and neglect, because he had offended the Lord; by the bodily immolation of patience not only recovered his kingdom, but—what is more to be desired by a man—made satisfaction to God. Further, if we set down in order the higher and happier grades of bodily patience, (we find that) it is she who is entrusted by holiness with the care of continence of the flesh: she keeps the widow,9158 9158
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 30
VERSE (5) - Ge 4:12-14 Ps 109:10 Da 4:25,32,33
