Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxviii Pg 24
Luke xii. 13, 14.
No other word of excuse was he able to find, without using4642 4642 Ne uteretur.
that with which the wicked, man and impious brother had rejected4643 4643 Excusserat. Oehler interprets the word by temptaverat.
the defender of probity and piety! In short, he approved of the excuse, although a bad one, by his use of it; and of the act, although a bad one, by his refusal to make peace between brothers. Or rather, would He not show His resentment4644 4644 Nunquid indigne tulerit.
at the rejection of Moses with such a word? And therefore did He not wish in a similar case of contentious brothers, to confound them with the recollection of so harsh a word? Clearly so. For He had Himself been present in Moses, who heard such a rejection—even He, the Spirit of the Creator.4645 4645 This is an instance of the title “Spirit” being applied to the divine nature of the Son. See Bp. Bull’s Def. Nic. Fid. (by the translator). [See note 13, p. 375, supra.]
I think that we have already, in another passage,4646 4646 Above, chap. xv. of this book, p. 369, supra.
sufficiently shown that the glory of riches is condemned by our God, “who putteth down the mighty from their throne, and exalts the poor from the dunghill.”4647 4647
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 12
VERSE (14) - Lu 5:20; 22:58 Ro 2:1,3; 9:20
