Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxx Pg 12
Luke xiii. 20, 21.
Now this is a capital conjecture for men who are begging for arguments. I must, however, on my side, dispel one fond conceit by another,4719 4719 Vanitatem vanitate.
and contend with even leaven is suitable for the kingdom of the Creator, because after it comes the oven, or, if you please,4720 4720 Vel.
the furnace of hell. How often has He already displayed Himself as a Judge, and in the Judge the Creator? How often, indeed, has He repelled, and in the repulse condemned? In the present passage, for instance, He says, “When once the master of the house is risen up;”4721 4721
Anf-02 vi.iii.i.xi Pg 2.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 170.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.ix Pg 169.2
Anf-03 iv.ix.ii Pg 5
Comp. Jer. xxxi. 27 (in LXX. it is xxxviii. 27); Hos. ii. 23; Zech. x. 9; Matt. xiii. 31–43.
of universal nations be believed to have given a law through Moses to one people, and not be said to have assigned it to all nations? For unless He had given it to all by no means would He have habitually permitted even proselytes out of the nations to have access to it. But—as is congruous with the goodness of God, and with His equity, as the Fashioner of mankind—He gave to all nations the selfsame law, which at definite and stated times He enjoined should be observed, when He willed, and through whom He willed, and as He willed. For in the beginning of the world He gave to Adam himself and Eve a law, that they were not to eat of the fruit of the tree planted in the midst of paradise; but that, if they did contrariwise, by death they were to die.1141 1141
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxiii Pg 109.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 13
VERSE (18) - :20; 7:31 La 2:13 Mt 13:31
