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-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 21
Luke ix. 20.
in the words, “Thou art the Christ,” he could not but have perceived that He was that Christ, beside whom he knew of none else in the Scriptures, and whom he was now surveying4276 4276 Recensebat.
in His wonderful deeds. This conclusion He even Himself confirms by thus far bearing with it, nay, even enjoining silence respecting it.4277 4277
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxxiv Pg 54
Luke ix. 20.
unless he had beforehand heard and believed Moses and the prophets, by whom alone Christ had been hitherto announced. Their faith, indeed, had deserved this confirmation by such a voice from heaven as should bid them hear Him, whom they had recognized as preaching peace, announcing glad tidings, promising an everlasting abode, building for them steps upwards into heaven.4855 4855
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 16
VERSE (15) - Mt 13:11 Mr 8:29 Lu 9:20
