Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxv Pg 44
Luke x. 23, 24.
you will find that they follow from the sense above, that no man indeed had come to the knowledge of God as he ought to have done,4507 4507 Ut decuit.
since even the prophets had not seen the things which were being seen under Christ. Now if He had not been my Christ, He would not have made any mention of the prophets in this passage. For what was there to wonder at, if they had not seen the things of a god who had been unknown to them, and was only revealed a long time after them? What blessedness, however, could theirs have been, who were then seeing what others were naturally4508 4508 Merito.
unable to see, since it was of things which they had never predicted that they had not obtained the sight;4509 4509 Repræsentationem.
if it were not because they might justly4510 4510 Æque.
have seen the things pertaining to their God, which they had even predicted, but which they at the same time4511 4511 Tamen.
had not seen? This, however, will be the blessedness of others, even of such as were seeing the things which others had only foretold. We shall by and by show, nay, we have already shown, that in Christ those things were seen which had been foretold, but yet had been hidden from the very prophets who foretold them, in order that they might be hidden also from the wise and the prudent. In the true Gospel, a certain doctor of the law comes to the Lord and asks, “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” In the heretical gospel life only is mentioned, without the attribute eternal; so that the lawyer seems to have consulted Christ simply about the life which the Creator in the law promises to prolong,4512 4512
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes ix.v Pg 63.1, Lifetimes ix.v Pg 79.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 10
VERSE (23) - Mt 13:16,17
