Anf-01 ix.vi.xxiii Pg 3
John xiii. 5.
For this is the end of the human race inheriting God; that as in the beginning, by means of our first [parents], we were all brought into bondage, by being made subject to death; so at last, by means of the New Man, all who from the beginning [were His] disciples, having been cleansed and washed from things pertaining to death, should come to the life of God. For He who washed the feet of the disciples sanctified the entire body, and rendered it clean. For this reason, too, He administered food to them in a recumbent posture, indicating that those who were lying in the earth were they to whom He came to impart life. As Jeremiah declares, “The holy Lord remembered His dead Israel, who slept in the land of sepulture; and He descended to them to make known to them His salvation, that they might be saved.”4126 4126 This spurious quotation has been introduced before. See book iii. 20. 4.
For this reason also were the eyes of the disciples weighed down when Christ’s passion was approaching; and when, in the first instance, the Lord found them sleeping, He let it pass,—thus indicating the patience of God in regard to the state of slumber in which men lay; but coming the second time, He aroused them, and made them stand up, in token that His passion is the arousing of His sleeping disciples, on whose account “He also descended into the lower parts of the earth,”4127 4127
Anf-02 vi.iii.ii.viii Pg 12.1
Anf-03 iv.vi.viii Pg 6
John xiii. 1–5.
—a garment specially sacred to Osiris. It is thus in general I reply upon the point, admitting indeed that we use along with others these articles, but challenging that this be judged in the light of the distinction between things agreeable and things opposed to reason, because the promiscuous employment of them is deceptive, concealing the corruption of the creature, by which it has been made subject to vanity. For we affirm that those things only are proper to be used, whether by ourselves or by those who lived before us, and alone befit the service of God and Christ Himself, which to meet the necessities of human life supply what is simply; useful and affords real assistance and honourable comfort, so that they may be well believed to have come from God’s own inspiration, who first of all no doubt provided for and taught and ministered to the enjoyment, I should suppose, of His own man. As for the things which are out of this class, they are not fit to be used among us, especially those which on that account indeed are not to be found either with the world, or in the ways of Christ.
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.xxiii Pg 77.1, Lifetimes x.x Pg 35.1, Lifetimes x.x Pg 39.1, Lifetimes x.x Pg 43.1, Temple xiv Pg 16.1, Temple xiv Pg 26.6, Temple xxi Pg 52.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (5) - Joh 19:34 2Ki 3:11 Eze 36:25 Zec 13:1 Eph 5:26 1Jo 5:6
