Anf-01 viii.iv.xlvii Pg 7
Ezek. xxxiii. 11–20.
tells, repents of sins; and reckons sinful, unrighteous, and impious the man who fails away from piety and righteousness to unrighteousness and ungodliness. Wherefore also our Lord Jesus Christ said, ‘In whatsoever things I shall take you, in these I shall judge you.’ ”2094 2094
Anf-02 ii.iv.vi Pg 21.1
Anf-03 iv.ix.xiii Pg 6
Isa. xxxiii. 17.
—which is what you do, being prohibited, in reward of your deserts, since the storming of Jerusalem, to enter into your land; it is permitted you merely to see it with your eyes from afar: “your soul,” he says, “shall meditate terror,”1387 1387
Anf-03 v.iv.v.x Pg 4
Isa. xxxv. 2.
What glory, and what excellency? “Be strong, ye weak hands, and ye feeble knees:”3763 3763
Anf-03 v.iv.iii.xxii Pg 14
An inexact quotation of Isa. xl .28.
Although He had respect to the offerings of Abel, and smelled a sweet savour from the holocaust of Noah, yet what pleasure could He receive from the flesh of sheep, or the odour of burning victims? And yet the simple and God-fearing mind of those who offered what they were receiving from God, both in the way of food and of a sweet smell, was favourably accepted before God, in the sense of respectful homage2975 2975 Honorem.
to God, who did not so much want what was offered, as that which prompted the offering. Suppose now, that some dependant were to offer to a rich man or a king, who was in want of nothing, some very insignificant gift, will the amount and quality of the gift bring dishonour2976 2976 Infuscabit.
to the rich man and the king; or will the consideration2977 2977 Titulus.
of the homage give them pleasure? Were, however, the dependant, either of his own accord or even in compliance with a command, to present to him gifts suitably to his rank, and were he to observe the solemnities due to a king, only without faith and purity of heart, and without any readiness for other acts of obedience, will not that king or rich man consequently exclaim: “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? I am full of your solemnities, your feast-days, and your Sabbaths.”2978 2978
Anf-03 v.viii.x Pg 4
Isa. xl. 5.
They notice God when He says in Genesis, “My Spirit shall not remain among these men, because they are flesh;”7354 7354
Anf-03 v.viii.lix Pg 5
Ver. 5.
It is the issues of men, not their substances, which he distinguishes. But who does not hold that the judgment of God consists in the twofold sentence, of salvation and of punishment? Therefore it is that “all flesh is grass,” which is destined to the fire; and “all flesh shall see the salvation of God,” which is ordained to eternal life. For myself, I am quite sure that it is in no other flesh than my own that I have committed adultery, nor in any other flesh am I striving after continence. If there be any one who bears about in his person two instruments of lasciviousness, he has it in his power, to be sure, to mow down7742 7742 Demetere.
“the grass” of the unclean flesh, and to reserve for himself only that which shall see the salvation of God. But when the same prophet represents to us even nations sometimes estimated as “the small dust of the balance,”7743 7743
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 22
VERSE (4) - Eze 33:18-20,23 Job 33:26 Ps 4:6 Isa 33:17; 35:2; 40:5 Mt 5:8
