And when I repeated this, I said to them, “Have you perceived, my friends, that God says He will give Him whom He has established as a light of the Gentiles, glory, and to no other; and not, as Trypho said, that God was retaining the glory to Himself?”
Neither, indeed, was ever used by Christ that familiar phrase of all the prophets, “Thus saith the Lord.” For He was Himself the Lord, who openly spake by His own authority, prefacing His words with the formula, “Verily, verily, I say unto you.” What need is there of further argument? Hear what Isaiah says in emphatic words, “It was no angel, nor deputy, but the Lord Himself who saved them.”7148
First, He was clad in “sordid attire,” that is, in the indignity of passible and mortalflesh, when the devil, withal, was opposing himself to Him—the instigator, to wit, of Judas the traitor1462
First, He was clad in “sordid attire,” that is, in the indignity of passible and mortalflesh, when the devil, withal, was opposing himself to Him—the instigator, to wit, of Judas the traitor1462
Neither, indeed, was ever used by Christ that familiar phrase of all the prophets, “Thus saith the Lord.” For He was Himself the Lord, who openly spake by His own authority, prefacing His words with the formula, “Verily, verily, I say unto you.” What need is there of further argument? Hear what Isaiah says in emphatic words, “It was no angel, nor deputy, but the Lord Himself who saved them.”7148
First, He was clad in “sordid attire,” that is, in the indignity of passible and mortalflesh, when the devil, withal, was opposing himself to Him—the instigator, to wit, of Judas the traitor1462
First, He was clad in “sordid attire,” that is, in the indignity of passible and mortalflesh, when the devil, withal, was opposing himself to Him—the instigator, to wit, of Judas the traitor1462
Neither, indeed, was ever used by Christ that familiar phrase of all the prophets, “Thus saith the Lord.” For He was Himself the Lord, who openly spake by His own authority, prefacing His words with the formula, “Verily, verily, I say unto you.” What need is there of further argument? Hear what Isaiah says in emphatic words, “It was no angel, nor deputy, but the Lord Himself who saved them.”7148
And when I repeated this, I said to them, “Have you perceived, my friends, that God says He will give Him whom He has established as a light of the Gentiles, glory, and to no other; and not, as Trypho said, that God was retaining the glory to Himself?”
