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1 8 | years, ix months, xiii~days (11 etc.).~Galba . . . .vii
2 8 | xx years v months (20 5-12).~Yet again~Cleopatra reigned
3 8 | with Augustus . xiii years (13.)~After Cleopatra, Augustus
4 8 | viii months, xiii~days (3 etc.).~Nero Caesar, . .
5 8 | xx years v months (20 5-12).~Yet again~Cleopatra
6 8 | vii months,vi days. (7 etc.).~Otho . . . . iii
7 8 | viii mos., xxvii days (8 mos.)~Vespasian, in the
8 13 | sent into dispersion and abiding in it, manifest it is that
9 6 | OF THE ABOLITION AND THE ABOLISHER OF THE OLD LAW.~Therefore,
10 13 | Isaiah, "a man cast forth his abominations of gold and silver, which
11 9 | of the East is wont to abound in gold and odours, certain
12 7 | everywhere, worshipped by all the above-enumerated nations, reigning everywhere,
13 8 | Seventy hebdomads have been abridged upon thy commonalty, and
14 9 | nor was His voice heard abroad," who "crushed not the bruised
15 8 | have been subdivided in the abscision of the former hebdomads; (
16 2 | theft also they would have abstained, if they had not stealthily
17 9 | outpoured in thy lips." But very absurd it is if he was complimenting
18 5 | contribulate" is demonstrated an acceptable sacrifice to God. And thus,
19 3 | been made His people, by accepting the new law above mentioned,
20 2 | out of the nations to have access to it. But--as is congruous
21 10 | the cause of the favour accorded Him being shown,--in return,
22 9 | mighty deeds which he was to achieve (which mighty deeds Joshua
23 9 | who was being prepared to act as images of this sacrament
24 3 | the law into the pacific actions of "ploughing" and "tilling"
25 9 | moreover, He was to do acts of power from the Father: "
26 2 | sum and substance of the actual question within definite
27 | actually
28 1pref | we have God Himself as an adequate engager and faithful promiser,
29 13 | wood" on His own shoulders, adhering to the horns of the cross,
30 10 | He did not maledictively adjudge Christ to this passion,
31 1pref | fact--that Gentiles are admissible to God's Law--is enough
32 3 | deserts should prohibit their admission into Jerusalem: which circumstance,
33 14conc| that "rock"--so we must admit--which is read of in Daniel
34 9 | thought they ought to be admonished to recall to mind the context
35 9 | beneath thee,"--of course, in adoration. Thus mighty in war and
36 7 | nations, reigning everywhere, adored everywhere, conferred equally
37 2 | kill; Thou shall not commit adultery; Thou shalt not steal; False
38 10 | magnificent, the more to be adumbrated, that the difficulty of
39 10 | TESTAMENT PREDICTIONS AND ADUMBRATIONS.~Concerning the last step,
40 9 | Outstretch and prosper, advance and reign!" And he has added, "
41 2 | who institutes it? if He advances who begins? In short, before
42 11 | been fulfilled through His advent--that is, through the nativity,
43 10 | understood to have been affected by means of the cross and
44 11 | art about to see greater affections of theirs. And He introduced
45 10 | passion you raise a doubt; affirming that the passion of the
46 7 | a spiritual sense to be affixed to these expressions,--that
47 14conc| universal spitting, and afflicted with all contumelies, was
48 9 | lingering deserted in the world aforetime) into the land of promise, "
49 7 | inhabiters of the region of Africa which is beyond Cyrene,
50 9 | is born Christ. I demand, again--granting that He who was
51 11 | come: and not only in this age--a ruin which has already
52 10 | But the novel "King of ages," Christ Jesus, alone reared "
53 9 | of men was the universal aggregation of spiritual credentials
54 11 | even on the ground of that agreement of Scriptures, which has
55 8 | year under Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes,
56 10 | again when He implores the aid of the Father, "Save me,"
57 13 | desert and subverted by alien peoples." And in another
58 9 | weapons you have learnt to be allegorical. And thus, so far, the Christ
59 9 | Certainly, if nature nowhere allows this,--(namely,) to serve
60 14conc| function. But the "Jesus" there alluded to is CHRIST, the Priest
61 5 | nations, saith the Lord Almighty: and in every place they
62 1pref | and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they
63 3 | Nay, but if circumcision altogether brought salvation, even
64 10 | Joshua was battling against Amalek, pray sitting with hands
65 9 | at Jerusalem, and shall amass all the vigour of the surrounding
66 14conc| them, begirt with scarlet, amid cursing and universal spitting,
67 9 | Israel, "Thy father (was) an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite;"
68 10 | mid-day grew dark, the prophet Amos announces, saying, "And
69 1pref | Jews--that is, the more ancient--quite forsook God, and did
70 10 | such snakes--that is, his angels--on turning intently from
71 2 | and kept. And let us not annul this power which God has,
72 8 | lxii hebdomads shall the anointing be exterminated, and shall
73 2 | reforms the law's precepts answerably to the circumstances of
74 8 | thy word I make thee these answers." Whence we are bound to
75 10 | But the reason of the case antecedently explains the sense of this
76 13 | things happened to you; in anxiety shall ye sleep." Since,
77 9 | novelty, would not have appeared a sign. In a word, if, when
78 9 | is already come, there be applicable to Him, firstly, the name
79 9 | is Emmanuel), be commonly applied to Christ ever since Christ'
80 9 | error. In the course of the appointing of a successor to Moses,
81 11 | upon whom is the sign Tau approach ye not; and begin with my
82 13 | we have in so many ways approved to be come, let the Jews
83 8 | day before the calends of April, on the first day of unleavened
84 9 | again, "The kings of the Arabs and Saba shall bring Him
85 13 | things named, "the wise architect" too, who builds the church,
86 8 | reigned . xxiiii years .~Argus ....one year.~Another Darius,
87 5 | if thou offerest indeed aright, but dost not divide aright--
88 5 | aright, but dost not divide aright--sinned? Hold thy peace.
89 4 | all time. And through this arises the question for us, what
90 4 | priests should carry the ark of the testament of God
91 4 | sabbath; or that Noah the ark-builder observed, on account of
92 9 | dry in the sun, and then armed with satchels and rationed
93 7 | who inhabit Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and
94 | around
95 14conc| as the result of a divine arrangement. For unless He come after
96 3 | distinguished when the time should arrive wherein their above-mentioned
97 8 | reigned . . xviiii years .~Artaxerxes reigned . . xl and i years .~
98 11 | in the open court of it, ascended from the cherubim: and the
99 10 | of the cross is not to be ascribed to any but Him whose death
100 14conc| mouth," not even in His aspect comely. For "we have announced,"
101 9 | justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (
102 9 | subsequent passages evidently asserts. "And there shall be born,"
103 7 | hesitate to believe what we asseverate, since you see it taking
104 14conc| not be corrupted." Then, assuredly, is He to have an honourable
105 10 | which is the peculiar atrocity of the cross; and again
106 13 | from them that the infamy (attached to that name) began, and (
107 1pref | greater people," while it attains the grace of divine favour,
108 7 | that even the Jews do not attempt to disprove, inasmuch as
109 9 | which I have prepared thee: attend to him, and be not disobedient
110 14conc| He was clad in "sordid attire," that is, in the indignity
111 9 | are simple, you have the audacity to lie, as if the Scripture
112 3 | wont of the old law was to avenge itself by the vengeance
113 3 | outstretched hands, I will avert my face from you; and if
114 6 | come, he may have to be awaited, until by his advent it
115 9 | novel birth having been awarded, the next step after the
116 13 | were cutting "wood" with axes on the bank of the river
117 1pref | and enslave themselves to Baal. Whence is proved that they
118 9 | general. Forsooth, by His babyish cry the infant would summon
119 9 | malediction. So, again, Babylon, in our own John, is a figure
120 7 | Darius "reigned" over the Babylonians and Parthians, he had not
121 11 | five men have turned their backs unto the temple of the Lord,
122 10 | sackcloth, and upon every head baldness; and I will make the grief
123 2 | still to be observed as a balm of salvation, and circumcision
124 13 | some they stoned, some they banished; more, however, they delivered
125 13 | wood" with axes on the bank of the river Jordan, the
126 13 | faith which is on Him," the baptismal water of the "tree" of the
127 8 | prophets (were) until John" the Baptist. For, on Christ's being
128 8 | For, on Christ's being baptized, that is, on His sanctifying
129 7 | finds greater favour, no barbarian lesser joy; no dignities
130 7 | nations of the Moors, and the barbarism of the Gaetulians, are blockaded
131 7 | closed, before whom iron bars have been crumbled, and
132 9 | course) to the business of battles? See we, then, whether that
133 10 | the time when Joshua was battling against Amalek, pray sitting
134 8 | foreseeing what was to be--that they will not merely
135 6 | light from on high would beam upon us who were sitting
136 10 | as a victim, and himself bearing his own "wood," was even
137 10 | knees bended, and hands beating his breast, and a face prostrate
138 | became
139 | becomes
140 11 | darkness, each in a hidden bed-chamber: because they have said,
141 7 | confines of Judea merely: "from Beersheba unto Dan" the boundaries
142 11 | a ruin which has already befallen--but in the "day of retribution,"
143 11 | to believe: just as Moses beforetime kept on announcing in Exodus,
144 13 | the sons of the prophets beg of him to extract from the
145 6 | suppressed, and that the beginnings of the new law ought to
146 13 | to be made a sacrifice on behalf of all Gentiles, who "was
147 13 | Because no one at all of human beings was conscious of the nativity
148 9 | to cast any down from (a belief in) this divine prediction,
149 10 | the grief like that for a beloved (son), and them that are
150 10 | commended his prayer by knees bended, and hands beating his breast,
151 13 | the clouds being celestial benefits, which were commanded not
152 3 | sufficiently bound to God by His benefits--forgat his Lord and God,
153 9 | And deservedly so; for he bespoke credit for a thing incredible,
154 13 | John,"and the fishpool of Bethsaida until the advent of Christ:
155 10 | His "brethren"--when He is betrayed by Judas. For Joseph is
156 2 | prophets, has reformed for the better; and has premonished that
157 11 | there, women sitting and bewailing Thammuz. And the Lord said
158 9 | conferred on him, because He had bidden him thenceforth be called,
159 10 | cross) was freed from the bite of the serpents. Come, now,
160 13 | wherewith Moses sweetened the bitter water; whence the People,
161 10 | of unleavened bread) with bitterness;" and added that "it was
162 9 | gifts, and adoring Him on bonded knee as Lord and King, on
163 12 | as err--"to outloose from bonds the bound"--that is, to
164 13 | feet: they counted all my bones; they themselves, moreover,
165 3 | every land," shown in the book of Daniel. In short, the
166 13 | house of Israel; for it "had borne thorns"--whereof that house
167 9 | than how to lacerate the bosom!) Certainly, if nature nowhere
168 1pref | shall be divided from thy bowels; and people shall overcome
169 13 | caught by the horns in the bramble; Christ, on the other hand,
170 4 | Maccabees, too, they did bravely in fighting on the sabbaths,
171 14conc| pierced, and shall beat their breasts tribe by tribe;" of course
172 7 | cross their own limits; the Britons are shut within the circuit
173 7 | Gauls, and the haunts of the Britons--inaccessible to the Romans,
174 9 | abroad," who "crushed not the bruised reed"--Israel's faith, who "
175 1pref | accounted as a little drop of a bucket," or else as "dust out of
176 13 | wise architect" too, who builds the church, God's temple,
177 5 | fat of goats, and blood of bulls, I will not, not even if
178 2 | we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please
179 10 | remain on the tree, but with burial ye shall bury him on the
180 10 | midst." For neither was He buried except He were dead, nor
181 10 | but with burial ye shall bury him on the very day; because
182 9 | proper (of course) to the business of battles? See we, then,
183 2 | nations to have access to it. But--as is congruous with the
184 10 | others, and not them, with butchery. But, to come now to Moses,
185 1pref | Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out the day
186 8 | when he suffered.)~Again Caius Caesar, also~called Caligula, . .
187 8 | the eighth day before the calends of April, on the first day
188 1pref | and there had come forth a calf-like head, to this figment Israel
189 8 | Caius Caesar, also~called Caligula, . . iii years, viii months,
190 2 | in order that, being a candidate for eternal life, he might
191 7 | Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and they who dwell in Pontus,
192 12 | Christ, who has already taken captive the whole orb with the faith
193 1pref | by point, should be more carefully looked into, and that the
194 6 | precepts had been given carnally, in time preceding, to the
195 10 | you may perhaps think some carpenter-king is signified, and not Christ,
196 4 | People that priests should carry the ark of the testament
197 10 | them through judgment, casting them down from heaven to
198 13 | being offeted which was caught by the horns in the bramble;
199 8 | and an half: which make up ccccxxxvii years, vi months:) on the
200 8 | There are, (then,) made up cccxxx and vii years, v months: (
201 4 | the seventh day--that the celebration of this solemnity is to
202 13 | Sorek,"--the clouds being celestial benefits, which were commanded
203 9 | Mary is described in the census, of whom is born Christ.
204 10 | extremities are called; while the central pole of the mast is a "unicorn."
205 13 | earth also trembled to her centre, and the veil of the temple
206 8 | over the kingdom of the Chaldees, I Daniel understood in
207 9 | Accordingly the Jews say: Let us challenge that prediction of Isaiah,
208 13 | done, whether nations will change their gods (and these are
209 13 | gods!). But My People hath changed their glory: whence no profit
210 9 | out the foe, not from His charger's back or from a rampart,
211 11 | of it, ascended from the cherubim: and the Lord called the
212 8 | be upon us, and upon our children;" and, "If thou dismiss
213 3 | upon one occasion have been choked by an angel, if Zipporah,
214 2 | inobservant of the Sabbath, was chosen to the priesthood of God.
215 13 | the unction of the royal chrism to be compounded. But, if
216 1pref | dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte.
217 1pref | less" people--that is, the Christian--overcome the "greater."
218 4 | pertaineth unto life." Whence we (Christians) understand that we still
219 3 | admission into Jerusalem: which circumstance, because it was to be, used
220 1pref | appellation, any should dare to claim for himself the privilege
221 1pref | the occasion, indeed, of claiming Divine grace even for the
222 9 | the signal of war not with clarion, but with rattle, and point
223 2 | had fashioned them from clay of the earth, as out of
224 3 | law's wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to tranquillity
225 11 | entered, and took their stand close to the brazen altar. And
226 1pref | be overcast by a sort of cloud. It was therefore our pleasure
227 2 | appointed one uncircumcised as colonist of paradise. Therefore,
228 9 | which Emmanuel signifies is come--that is, "God with us."
229 14conc| not even in His aspect comely. For "we have announced,"
230 11 | nativity, which we have above commemorated, and the passion, which
231 4 | whencesoever they may have commenced, must necessarily include
232 9 | that) which they had had in common with the Samaritans, as
233 9 | which is Emmanuel), be commonly applied to Christ ever since
234 10 | foretelling that all the community of the sons of lsrael was
235 8 | times prescribed, and of competent signs and operations of
236 9 | very absurd it is if he was complimenting on the bloom of his beauty
237 9 | second people (which is composed of us nations, lingering
238 13 | of the royal chrism to be compounded. But, if there is no longer "
239 3 | it on the journey, at the compulsion of the angel. Consider we,
240 3 | that one single infant's compulsory circumcision cannot have
241 9 | every heart, and carrying compunction and transfixion to each
242 8 | Whence we are bound to compute from the first year of Darius,
243 8 | trace in Daniel; and, after computing them, shall prove Him to
244 10 | pointing to Christ's death; conceded, as He was, as a victim
245 13 | nativity of Christ at His conception, when as the Virgin Mary
246 3 | Christ, "praecised without concisors' hands, filling every land,"
247 10 | prophets--"and in their concupiscence they hamstrung a bull!"--
248 13 | exile? Restore to Judea the condition which Christ is to find;
249 13 | Israel." So, again, we find a conditional threat of the sword: "If
250 14conc| they did not know Him when conditioned in the humility of human
251 9 | right hand, he says, "shall conduct thee"--the virtue to wit,
252 8 | unto ruin. And he shall confirm a testament in many. In
253 2 | that he was freed from the conflagration of the Sodomites.~
254 1pref | that which, owing to the confused noise of disputation, could
255 8 | says, "And understand and conjecture that at the completion of
256 1pref | them, did they again, in conjunction with Jeroboam, worship golden
257 7 | regions, after he had quite conquered them; if the Germans, to
258 9 | and transfixion to each conscience: "peoples shall fall beneath
259 13 | all of human beings was conscious of the nativity of Christ
260 1pref | figment Israel with one consent (abandoning God) gave honour,
261 8 | again, on the ground of the consequences which were ever announced
262 11 | have suffered, and by the consequent conclusion of the "lxx hebdomads,"
263 2 | inobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel,
264 14conc| pair, on the one hand, and consimilar (they were), because of
265 9 | sons) by reason of their consimilarity in impiety, whom of old (
266 4 | of this solemnity is to consist, that Joshua the son of
267 9 | from God, unless it had consisted in some portentous novelty,
268 3 | neglect) already exhibited conspicuously in their leader's son. For
269 9 | Scriptures regard "gold" as constituting the "power" also of all
270 8 | Tiberius Caesar, in the consulate of Rubellius Geminus and
271 4 | demonstrated as having been consummated at its specific times, so
272 13 | which will not be able to contain water." Undoubtedly, by
273 9 | lie, as if the Scripture contained (the announcement), that
274 10 | be able to satisfy you, containing as it does the whole passion
275 3 | semblance of eternity, and not contaminated with human passions, or
276 13 | they themselves, moreover, contemplated and saw me, and in my thirst
277 2 | salvation. In fine, let him who contends that the Sabbath is still
278 1pref | proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out
279 9 | house of David; no petty contest have ye with men, since
280 9 | admonished to recall to mind the context of this passage as well.
281 2 | were to die. Which law had continued enough for them, had it
282 9 | sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that
283 2 | paradise; but that, if they did contrariwise, by death they were to die.
284 9 | warfare." But we, on the contrary, have thought they ought
285 2 | God, they would not have contravened His precept; if they had
286 2 | falling from immortality, by contravening God's precept; from theft
287 14conc| and afflicted with all contumelies, was crucified outside the
288 5 | For unto thee shall thy conversion be and he shall lord it
289 9 | senses the Jews shall be convicted. "Gird thee," says David, "
290 14conc| scandal," but "the highest corner-stone," after reprobation (on
291 14conc| kingdom one which shall not be corrupted." Then, assuredly, is He
292 6 | new kingdom which is not corruptible. Inquire, I say, we must,
293 13 | my hands and feet: they counted all my bones; they themselves,
294 5 | said unto Cain, Why is thy countenance fallen? hast thou not--if
295 5 | says: "Bring to God, ye countries of the nations"--undoubtedly
296 11 | over the house, in the open court of it, ascended from the
297 5 | victims and enter into His courts." For that it is not by
298 12 | I have given Thee for a covenant of my family, for a light
299 2 | mother; if they had not coveted another's, they would not
300 1pref | who set up to vindicate Cows Law as his own was of the
301 2 | resolved to form, righteous creatures. For what wonder if He extends
302 9 | aggregation of spiritual credentials appropriate, except to Christ;
303 10 | besides, that it is not credible that God should have exposed
304 11 | I will not pity. And He cried into mine ears with a loud
305 5 | the blood of thy brother crieth forth unto me from the earth.
306 1pref | Scriptures, as guilty of the crime of idolatry; whereas our "
307 10 | when, in circumstances so critical, he ought rather, surely,
308 10 | yard--which is part of a cross--this is the name by which
309 14conc| somewhat lower than angels, "crowned Him with glory and honour
310 14conc| mount, which shall crush and crumble the image of secular kingdoms.
311 7 | whom iron bars have been crumbled, and brazen gates opened.
312 14conc| from a mount, which shall crush and crumble the image of
313 9 | voice heard abroad," who "crushed not the bruised reed"--Israel'
314 13 | vineyard, or as a shed in a cucumber garden,"--ever since the
315 3 | and like a watchhouse in a cucumber-field, and as it were a city which
316 13 | Christ: thereafter it ceased curatively to remove from Israel infirmities
317 14conc| begirt with scarlet, amid cursing and universal spitting,
318 13 | sons of the prophets were cutting "wood" with axes on the
319 7 | of Africa which is beyond Cyrene, Romans and sojourners,
320 8 | Ochus (who is also~called Cyrus) reigned . xxiiii years .~
321 7 | and of the Sarmatians, and Dacians, and Germans, and Scythians,
322 9 | even by this fact, that a daily occurrence--the pregnancy
323 7 | merely: "from Beersheba unto Dan" the boundaries of his kingdom
324 10 | does, even at so early a date, His own glory. "They dug,"
325 9 | since Christ's light has dawned, and I think you will not
326 4 | that is, of the seventh day--that the celebration of
327 13 | uttered on this wise: "Before daybreak shall they arise unto Me,
328 9 | see, and the ears of the deaf shall hear, and the mutes'
329 5 | in every place they offer dean sacrifices to my Name, saith
330 14conc| with manifold figures, and debased it with every dishonour,
331 14conc| been (not undeservedly) deceived as to the more obscure--
332 9 | obedience to God the Father's decree. "The greatness of thy right
333 10 | a tree; and ye shall not defile the land which the Lord
334 1pref | quite forsook God, and did degrading service to idols, and, abandoning
335 10 | to name no more, not to delay my own course), that he
336 14conc| Father, His own Christ, is delineated in a twofold garb with reference
337 8 | upon the holy city, until delinquency be made inveterate, and
338 8 | will both persecute and deliver Him to death--both recapitulated,
339 9 | of whom is born Christ. I demand, again--granting that He
340 13 | who, again, in the Psalm, demands of the Father their dispersion,
341 3 | abolition the action itself demonstrates? For the wont of the old
342 9 | first step is to look at the demonstration of His age, to see whether
343 13 | already come, let us put in a demurrer against them out of the
344 9 | Christ. For (Scripture) denoted idolatry by the name of "
345 1pref | have above related, had departed. For thus has the "less"--
346 11 | seeth us not; the Lord hath derelinquished the earth. And He said unto
347 10 | persist in rejecting and deriding all these interpretations,
348 9 | have above mentioned) must derive her lineage of the seed
349 9 | among the Romans, Mary is described in the census, of whom is
350 9 | elsewhere as well the Scriptures designate Christ a warrior, as we
351 10 | constantly being predicted. For I desire to show, in one utterance
352 8 | because thou art a man of desires; and ponder thou on the
353 8 | saying to Pilate, when he was desirous to dismiss Him, "His blood
354 13 | thenceforth God's grace desisted (from working) among them.
355 13 | DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND DESOLATION OF JUDEA.~Therefore, since
356 3 | circumcision, the people should not despise it, from seeing this example (
357 13 | impiety with which they despised and slew Him. For first,
358 9 | appellation of "Samaritans,"--"despoiled"(of that) which they had
359 8 | in a deluge; and he shall destroy the pinnacle unto ruin."
360 8 | and that the pinnacle is destroyed unto ruin." And so the times
361 6 | darkness, and were being detained in the shadow of death.
362 9 | himself to be reigning, if he detrudes the saints from the religion
363 10 | malediction; for He says in Deuteronomy: "If, moreover, (a man)
364 9 | serve as a soldier before developing into manhood, to take "the
365 10 | one day singly against the devil--the figure of the cross
366 13 | with fire, while strangers devour their region in their sight:
367 10 | and does not bear either diadem on his head, or else sceptre
368 10 | the judgment of death, and died suspended on a tree, he
369 9 | that there is enunciated a different ensuing ordering of the
370 10 | be adumbrated, that the difficulty of its intelligence might
371 13 | water of life, and they have digged for themselves worn-out
372 7 | barbarian lesser joy; no dignities or pedigrees enjoy distinctions
373 1pref | evening. By the opposing din, moreover, of some partisans
374 7 | His advent that they are directing their hope. Nor need we
375 7 | Him been given, and not disavow the new testament in Him
376 4 | have profaned." Whence we discern that the temporal sabbath
377 9 | understanding, the spirit of discernment and piety, the spirit of
378 2 | Law, which germinated when disclosed at their proper times. For
379 3 | Because the subsequent discourse of the prophet reproaches
380 14conc| and debased it with every dishonour, while the SECOND (was foretold
381 9 | attend to him, and be not disobedient to him; for he hath not
382 13 | their dispersion, saying, "Disperse them in Thy power;" who,
383 13 | synagogues for the use of the "dispersions of the Gentiles," in which
384 9 | Now, let each count be disposed of summarily. Accordingly,
385 7 | the Jews do not attempt to disprove, inasmuch as it is to His
386 1pref | to the confused noise of disputation, could be less fully elucidated
387 1pref | happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian
388 7 | dignities or pedigrees enjoy distinctions of merit; to all He is equal,
389 10 | hand, or else some mark of distinctive vesture? But the novel "
390 14conc| enjoy a spiritual public distribution (as it were) of the Lord'
391 13 | the confines of the very district, in order that this prophetic
392 7 | limits of the Spains, and the diverse nations of the Gauls, and
393 1pref | and two peoples shall be divided from thy bowels; and people
394 2 | Cain, who was not rightly dividing what he was offering. Noah
395 1pref | idols, and, abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images;
396 9 | into Syrophoenicia on the division of the Syrias: the "power"
397 1pref | from which Israel has been divorced.~
398 7 | he possess his kingdom's dominion; if Nebuchadnezzar with
399 5 | offerest indeed aright, but dost not divide aright--sinned?
400 11 | the north, and each one's double-axe of dispersion was in his
401 4 | people of Israel. Nor is it doubtful that they "wrought servile
402 9 | Eastern magi be believed, dowering with gold and incense the
403 14conc| far followed the stream downward of the order of Christ's
404 13 | of thirst in the desert, drank and revived; just as we
405 4 | obedience to God's precept, they drave the preys of war. For in
406 10 | Christ to this passion, but drew a distinction, that whoever,
407 9 | of Gomorrha," when those dries had already long been extinct.
408 13 | deprived of the divine word), drinking, "by the faith which is
409 1pref | are accounted as a little drop of a bucket," or else as "
410 9 | oiled first, I suppose, to dry in the sun, and then armed
411 10 | date, His own glory. "They dug," He says, "my hands and
412 | during
413 1pref | of a bucket," or else as "dust out of a threshing-floor:"
414 7 | Cappadocia, and they who dwell in Pontus, and Asia, and
415 7 | inasmuch as in all these places dwells the "people" of the Name
416 9 | by prophets; as Isaiah (e.g.,) foretells, "Hear ye, house
417 14conc| one alone which they could easily understand and believe (
418 9 | its fulfilment. Let those Eastern magi be believed, dowering
419 4 | been made a prey by the edge of the sword by all the
420 1pref | beyond doubt, through the edict of the divine utterance,
421 13 | from the dead, which was effected on the third day, did the
422 7 | hereditary kingdom, over the Egyptians, in that country merely
423 7 | believed,--Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and they who inhabit Mesopotamia,
424 11 | thou hast seen what the elders of Israel do, each one of
425 13 | name for a satiety to Mine elect, but you the Lord shall
426 13 | Whence they understood that Elijah's spirit was presently conferred
427 1pref | disputation, could be less fully elucidated point by point, should be
428 2 | to Adam we recognise in embryo all the precepts which afterwards
429 9 | withal the interpretation of Emmanuel--"God with us"--in order
430 11 | or "prophet;" whence most emphatically he says that His advent "
431 11 | of Scriptures, which has enabled us to speak out, in opposition
432 13 | cross, with a thorny crown encircling His head. For Him it behoved
433 2 | sanctioned, we recognise enclosed all the precepts specially
434 9 | called by that name, nor engaged in warfare." But we, on
435 1pref | God Himself as an adequate engager and faithful promiser, in
436 13 | with our breast doubly enlightened through Christ's truth,
437 10 | king in the world wears the ensign of his power on his shoulder,
438 9 | received" in receiving its ensigns,--gold, to wit, and odours. "
439 1pref | golden kine, and groves, and enslave themselves to Baal. Whence
440 10 | overcame the death which ensued from His passion of "the
441 11 | about his loins: and they entered, and took their stand close
442 3 | should be prohibited from entering the holy city, as we see
443 9 | accordingly, (Scripture) entitled the magi also with the appellation
444 8 | righteousness obtained by entreaty, and righteousness eternal
445 7 | and which we can scarce enumerate? In all which places the
446 9 | the sign is, that there is enunciated a different ensuing ordering
447 8 | xvii years ~After him~Epiphanes, . . xxiiii years .~Then
448 7 | distinctions of merit; to all He is equal, to all King, to all Judge,
449 1pref | times, as having in the last era of the world attained the
450 13 | of Israel affirm that we err in receiving the Christ,
451 12 | blind"--of course, such as err--"to outloose from bonds
452 3 | the God of Jacob,"--not of Esau, the former son, but of
453 2 | skulk beneath a tree to escape the view of the Lord their
454 9 | to him; for he hath not escaped thy notice, since my name
455 8 | had reconquered, and had established his kingdom firmly in Alexandria,
456 14conc| in the humility of human estate. Jeremiah says: "He is a
457 7 | kings, "from India unto Ethiopia" he had his kingdom's boundaries;
458 8 | confirmed. And justly does the evangelist write, "The law and the
459 9 | says, "are sharp,"--God's everywhere-flying precepts (arrows) threatening
460 9 | as Lord and King, on the evidence of the guiding and indicating
461 13 | asunder? "because these two evils hath My People done; Me,"
462 5 | Abel, from the fruit of his ewes. "God had respect unto Abel,
463 3 | despise it, from seeing this example (of neglect) already exhibited
464 7 | by the Romans, lest they exceed the confines of their own
465 5 | supplicatory gift: a thing execrable to me;" and again He says, "
466 8 | and in the holy place the execration of devastation, (and) until
467 3 | to remodel the pristine execution of "war" upon the rivals
468 4 | it that it is not in the exemption from work of the sabbath--
469 10 | prophets--they slew, and exhausted their savagery by transfixing
470 10 | that in this case he was exhibiting the Lord's cross on which
471 13 | of a race which is now in exile? Restore to Judea the condition
472 2 | but was more ancient; (existing) first in paradise, subsequently
473 13 | seed of Israel none at all exists in Bethlehem. A second time,
474 2 | well-known) time after their exode from Egypt, after the interval
475 11 | beforetime kept on announcing in Exodus, saying, "Ye shall be ejected
476 10 | pray sitting with hands expanded, when, in circumstances
477 6 | inquire whether there be expected a giver of the new law,
478 14conc| in so far as, after the expiation of all sins, the priests
479 11 | which we have evidently explained--that is the reason withal
480 10 | of the case antecedently explains the sense of this malediction;
481 9 | arrows) threatening the exposure of every heart, and carrying
482 7 | sense to be affixed to these expressions,--that the hearts of individuals,
483 7 | their own legions, nor can extend the might of their kingdom
484 7 | nations? But Christ's Name is extending everywhere, believed everywhere,
485 2 | creatures. For what wonder if He extends a discipline who institutes
486 8 | the holy place shall he exterminate together with the Leader,
487 9 | dries had already long been extinct. And elsewhere it says,
488 13 | the clamour whereby it had extorted His surrender to the cross.
489 13 | the prophets beg of him to extract from the stream the iron
490 10 | nations alike unto the very extremity of the earth." Of course
491 11 | temple of the Lord, and their faces over against the east; these
492 1pref | the Israelites." For this fact--that Gentiles are admissible
493 11 | and a pining soul, and failing eyes, that they see not:
494 1pref | an adequate engager and faithful promiser, in that He promised
495 2 | murder upon themselves, by falling from immortality, by contravening
496 2 | adultery; Thou shalt not steal; False witness thou shall not utter;
497 2 | been made partners with the falsehood-asseverating devil, by believing him
498 5 | go out"--"bring to God fame and honour; bring to God
499 12 | Thee for a covenant of my family, for a light of Gentiles,
500 2 | as their Father, who had fashioned them from clay of the earth,