Anf-01 ix.vi.xxx Pg 3
Matt. xiii. 11–16; Isa. vi. 10.
For one and the same God [that blesses others] inflicts blindness upon those who do not believe, but who set Him at naught; just as the sun, which is a creature of His, [acts with regard] to those who, by reason of any weakness of the eyes cannot behold his light; but to those who believe in Him and follow Him, He grants a fuller and greater illumination of mind. In accordance with this word, therefore, does the apostle say, in the Second [Epistle] to the Corinthians: “In whom the this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine [unto them].”4210 4210
Anf-02 ii.iv.v Pg 15.1
Anf-02 vi.iv.v.xii Pg 12.1
Anf-03 v.iii.xxii Pg 7
Matt. xiii. 11.
which it was not permitted the people to understand? Was anything withheld from the knowledge of Peter, who is called “the rock on which the church should be built,”2074 2074
Anf-01 ix.viii.xiv Pg 3
Matt. xv. 17.
If then corruptible, it is obvious that she was also mortal. But if mortal, then there was certainly no curse; nor was that a [condemnatory] sentence, when the voice of God spake to the man, “For earth thou art, and unto earth shall thou return,”4819 4819
Anf-03 vi.iv.xiii Pg 5
See Matt. xv. 10, 11, 17–20; xxiii. 25, 26.
not those which most are superstitiously careful about, taking water at every prayer, even when they are coming from a bath of the whole body. When I was scrupulously making a thorough investigation of this practice, and searching into the reason of it, I ascertained it to be a commemorative act, bearing on the surrender8844 8844
Anf-01 ix.vii.xxvi Pg 3
Matt. xxiv. 15; 21.
