Anf-03 iv.ix.xiv Pg 14
See Ps. viii. 5, 6 (6, 7 in LXX.); Heb. ii. 6–9.
And then shall they “learn to know Him whom they pierced, and shall beat their breasts tribe by tribe;”1457 1457
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.vii Pg 16
Ps. viii. 5, 6.
“Then shall they look on Him whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, tribe after tribe;”3194 3194
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xxvii Pg 19
Ps. viii. 6.
In which lowering of His condition He received from the Father a dispensation in those very respects which you blame as human; from the very beginning learning,3061 3061 Ediscens, “practising” or “rehearsing.”
even then, (that state of a) man which He was destined in the end to become.3062 3062
Anf-03 v.iv.iv.vii Pg 10
Ps. viii. 6.
declaring Himself to be “a worm and not a man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people.”3188 3188
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxi Pg 59
Ps. viii. 6.
“a worm and no man, a reproach of men, and despised of the people;”4314 4314
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.ix Pg 19
Ps. cx. 1, 2; and viii. 6.
It is necessary for me to lay claim to those Scriptures which the Jews endeavour to deprive us of, and to show that they sustain my view. Now they say that this Psalm5598 5598
Anf-03 v.vii.xv Pg 16
Ps. viii. 6, Sept.
and they deny the lower nature of that Christ who declares Himself to be, “not a man, but a worm;”7163 7163
Anf-03 v.ix.xvi Pg 12
Ps. viii. 6.
But the heretics, you may be sure, will not allow that those things are suitable even to the Son of God, which you are imputing to the very Father Himself, when you pretend7971 7971 Quasi.
that He made Himself less (than the angels) on our account; whereas the Scripture informs us that He who was made less was so affected by another, and not Himself by Himself. What, again, if He was One who was “crowned with glory and honour,” and He Another by whom He was so crowned,7972 7972
Anf-03 v.ix.xvi Pg 14
Ps. viii. 6.
—the Son, in fact, by the Father? Moreover, how comes it to pass, that the Almighty Invisible God, “whom no man hath seen nor can see; He who dwelleth in light unapproachable;”7973 7973
Anf-03 vi.vii.v Pg 7
See Ps. viii. 4–6.
For if he had endured (that), he would not have grieved; nor would he have envied man if he had not grieved. Accordingly he deceived him, because he had envied him; but he had envied because he had grieved: he had grieved because, of course, he had not patiently borne. What that angel of perdition9053 9053 Compare the expression in de Idol. iv., “perdition of blood” ="bloody perdition,” and the note there. So here “angel of perdition” may ="lost angel.”
first was—malicious or impatient—I scorn to inquire: since manifest it is that either impatience took its rise together with malice, or else malice from impatience; that subsequently they conspired between themselves; and that they grew up indivisible in one paternal bosom. But, however, having been instructed, by his own experiment, what an aid unto sinning was that which he had been the first to feel, and by means of which he had entered on his course of delinquency, he called the same to his assistance for the thrusting of man into crime. The woman,9054 9054 Mulier. See de Orat. c. xxii.
immediately on being met by him—I may say so without rashness—was, through his very speech with her, breathed on by a spirit infected with impatience: so certain is it that she would never have sinned at all, if she had honoured the divine edict by maintaining her patience to the end. What (of the fact) that she endured not to have been met alone; but in the presence of Adam, not yet her husband, not yet bound to lend her his ears,9055 9055
Anf-02 vi.iv.ii.xv Pg 38.1
Anf-03 vi.ii.ii Pg 3
Or, “while these things continue, those which respect the Lord rejoice in purity along with them—Wisdom,” etc.
