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1001 9 | ye with men, since God is proposing a struggle. Therefore God
1002 1pref | a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious
1003 9 | to say, "Outstretch and prosper, advance and reign!" And
1004 10 | beating his breast, and a face prostrate on the ground; except it
1005 13 | which yielded death to the protoplasts, but the "tree" of the passion
1006 9 | being equally great and proud of her sway, and triumphant
1007 2 | the brother of Abraham, proves that it was for the merits
1008 2 | precept; since it is His province withal subsequently to train,
1009 7 | many remote nations, and of provinces and islands many, to us
1010 14conc| men." "Grace," says the Psalmist, "hath been outpoured in
1011 5 | my Name." Again, in the Pslams, David says: "Bring to God,
1012 8 | xxxviii years .~Ptolemy . . . .xxxvii years .~Cleopatra, . . .
1013 14conc| were to enjoy a spiritual public distribution (as it were)
1014 6 | the new sacrifices, and a purger of the new circumcision,
1015 14conc| and raised sublime for the purpose of consummation, and that "
1016 1pref | should determine, for reading purposes, the questions handled For
1017 9 | reed"--Israel's faith, who "quenched not the burning flax"--that
1018 1pref | for reading purposes, the questions handled For the occasion,
1019 1pref | that is, posterior--people, quitting the idols which formerly
1020 7 | by this time, the varied races of the Gaetulians, and manifold
1021 14conc| stripped of His former sordid raiment, and adorned with a garment
1022 13 | clouds were commanded not to rain a shower upon the vineyard
1023 13 | not yet irrigated with rains, nor fertilized by showers,
1024 10 | plainly, of His passion you raise a doubt; affirming that
1025 14conc| taken up (into heaven) and raised sublime for the purpose
1026 13 | wood," was reserved, the ram being offeted which was
1027 9 | charger's back or from a rampart, but from the back or neck
1028 9 | armed with satchels and rationed on butter,--who are to know
1029 9 | not with clarion, but with rattle, and point out the foe,
1030 14conc| the whole world with the rays of His gospel. In short,
1031 1pref | pen should determine, for reading purposes, the questions
1032 10 | ages," Christ Jesus, alone reared "on His shoulder" His own
1033 8 | a word for restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem unto the Christ,
1034 9 | ought to be admonished to recall to mind the context of this
1035 4 | their foreign foes, and recalled the law of their fathers
1036 8 | deliver Him to death--both recapitulated, and said, that in lx and
1037 9 | infancy. But that he is to receives "the power of Damascus and
1038 | recently
1039 9 | hand, used formerly to be reckoned to Arabia before it was
1040 10 | a death which had to be recompensed,--it is likewise shown that
1041 8 | and Persians, whom he had reconquered, and had established his
1042 10 | not only(as we have above recorded it predicted of Him) was
1043 1pref | according to the memorial records of the divine Scriptures,
1044 13 | the sons of the prophets recovered. Whence they understood
1045 3 | transported through the Red Sea, and who in the desert,
1046 10 | mouth; and God willed to redeem His soul from death," and
1047 4 | at the time that he was reducing the city Jericho by war.
1048 9 | crushed not the bruised reed"--Israel's faith, who "quenched
1049 2 | power which God has, which reforms the law's precepts answerably
1050 14conc| ignominy of man, and the refuse of the People." Which evidences
1051 9 | and bring forth; you are refuted even by this fact, that
1052 11 | the Christ whom you have rejected. For thus it is written: "
1053 10 | your heart shall persist in rejecting and deriding all these interpretations,
1054 1pref | Israel, as we have above related, had departed. For thus
1055 9 | becomes intelligible by the relation of its fulfilment. Let those
1056 1pref | I. OCCASION OF WRITING. RELATIVE POSITION OF JEWS AND GENTILES
1057 4 | victim, pleased Him by a religious reverence for the sabbath;
1058 10 | tree, his body shall not remain on the tree, but with burial
1059 13 | of the race of Israel has remained in Bethlehem; and (so it
1060 4 | Moses said to the People: "REMEMBER the day of the sabbaths,
1061 8 | prophet," and "sins" were remitted, which, through faith in
1062 3 | glaives" and "lances," and to remodel the pristine execution of "
1063 7 | and Scythians, and of many remote nations, and of provinces
1064 13 | it ceased curatively to remove from Israel infirmities
1065 10 | dead, nor was His sepulture removed from the midst except through
1066 5 | sacrifice of praise, and render to the Highest thy vows."
1067 9 | equity of its own wisdom; rendering to each one according to
1068 3 | prophet Jeremiah says, "Make a renewal for you, and sow not in
1069 13 | the veil of the temple was rent, and the tombs were burst
1070 9 | prediction; nay, rather, repay to truth what you are unwilling
1071 10 | singing, saying, "They were repaying me evil for good;" and, "
1072 2 | Gentiles too and, after repeatedly promising so to do through
1073 6 | the new sacrifices, and repress the ancient ceremonies,
1074 3 | discourse of the prophet reproaches them, saying, "Sons have
1075 5 | sacrifices are understood to be reprobated--of which Isaiah withal speaks,
1076 14conc| highest corner-stone," after reprobation (on earth) taken up (into
1077 5 | seen by me: for who hath required these things from your hands?"
1078 13 | hand, with his "wood," was reserved, the ram being offeted which
1079 2 | to train, who had before resolved to form, righteous creatures.
1080 4 | precepts was temporary, and respected the necessity of present
1081 4 | sanctified the seventh day, by resting on it from all His works
1082 13 | race which is now in exile? Restore to Judea the condition which
1083 13 | tree" in Adam, should be restored through the "tree" in Christ?
1084 8 | going forth of a word for restoring and rebuilding Jerusalem
1085 14conc| wholly worthy of God, it has resulted therefrom, that, by fixing
1086 13 | which is His glorious resurrection--He received back into the
1087 3 | for eye," and to inflict retaliatory revenge for injury. But
1088 11 | befallen--but in the "day of retribution," which will be subsequent.
1089 9 | Behold, our God will deal retributive judgment; Himself will come
1090 10 | was put; for so Christ has revealed, calling His body "bread,"
1091 3 | and to inflict retaliatory revenge for injury. But the new
1092 4 | pleased Him by a religious reverence for the sabbath; or that
1093 9 | for she had at that time revolted from God under King Jeroboam.
1094 13 | do, being prohibited, in reward of your deserts, since the
1095 10 | destined to attain these rewards because of death, was to
1096 10 | Of course no one-horned rhinoceros was there pointed to, nor
1097 10 | for His sepulture, and the rich for His death, because He
1098 2 | brother Cain, who was not rightly dividing what he was offering.
1099 1pref | necklaces of the women and the rings of the men had been wholly
1100 13 | adore with vain and hurtful (rites),"--that is, ever since
1101 3 | execution of "war" upon the rivals and foes of the law into
1102 13 | axes on the bank of the river Jordan, the iron flew off
1103 9 | is a figure of the city Rome, as being equally great
1104 13 | succeeded to, and occupy, the room of the prophets, at the
1105 13 | submerged, forthwith it rose and swam on the surface,
1106 3 | prescribed to every people, and rounded, as it were, a law for keeping
1107 4 | fighting on the sabbaths, and routed their foreign foes, and
1108 8 | Caesar, in the consulate of Rubellius Geminus and Fufius Geminus,
1109 9 | placed side by side with the rule of the Scriptures. For,
1110 6 | eternal sacrifices, eternal ruler of the eternal kingdom,
1111 9 | matter if, among you, infants rush out into battle,--oiled
1112 9 | The kings of the Arabs and Saba shall bring Him gifts."
1113 13 | fulfilled. For "the Lord of Sabaoth hath taken away, among the
1114 10 | will lay upon your loins sackcloth, and upon every head baldness;
1115 9 | to act as images of this sacrament was inaugurated under the
1116 10 | peccancy of sins to the sacraments of Christ's cross, salvation
1117 9 | the Samaritans, as we have said--idolatry in opposition to
1118 4 | that from the beginning God sanctified the seventh day, by resting
1119 4 | day of the sabbaths, to sanctify it: every servile work ye
1120 8 | baptized, that is, on His sanctifying the waters in His own baptism,
1121 2 | the tree's fruit, He had sanctioned, we recognise enclosed all
1122 11 | the feet, and a girdle of sapphire about his loins: and they
1123 7 | subjugated to Christ, and of the Sarmatians, and Dacians, and Germans,
1124 9 | sun, and then armed with satchels and rationed on butter,--
1125 13 | transmit your name for a satiety to Mine elect, but you the
1126 10 | will at length be able to satisfy you, containing as it does
1127 10 | slew, and exhausted their savagery by transfixing His sinews
1128 10 | Judge; to others gentle, as Saviour; whose "horns" were to be
1129 14conc| of offence nor a rock of scandal," but "the highest corner-stone,"
1130 7 | unknown, and which we can scarce enumerate? In all which
1131 10 | diadem on his head, or else sceptre in his hand, or else some
1132 9 | being ignominious on the score of idolatry; for she had
1133 10 | Levi, he prophesies of the scribes and Pharisees; for from
1134 7 | Dacians, and Germans, and Scythians, and of many remote nations,
1135 3 | transported through the Red Sea, and who in the desert,
1136 8 | grace-gifts ceased in Christ, sealing as He did all vision and
1137 9 | which Isaiah foretold, and (secondly) the signs of it which he
1138 10 | perfected iniquity out of their sect," --whereby, to wit, they
1139 14conc| and crumble the image of secular kingdoms. Of which second
1140 11 | sun. And He said unto me, Seest thou, son of man? Are such
1141 11 | they have said, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath derelinquished
1142 10 | good;" and, "What I had not seized I was then paying in full;"
1143 2 | gave to all nations the selfsame law, which at definite and
1144 3 | manna, was wrought to the semblance of eternity, and not contaminated
1145 9 | comparison of the remaining senses the Jews shall be convicted. "
1146 13 | suffered them, and see them sent into dispersion and abiding
1147 3 | says, "whom I knew not hath served me; in obedience of the
1148 2 | purges? At all events, in settling him in paradise, He appointed
1149 8 | understand in the vision. Seventy hebdomads have been abridged
1150 6 | were being detained in the shadow of death. And so there is
1151 9 | Thine arrows," he says, "are sharp,"--God's everywhere-flying
1152 | she
1153 9 | as a lamb before him who sheareth him, opened not His mouth."
1154 9 | the Gentiles--but made it shine more by the rising of His
1155 10 | the cross. For even in a ship's yard--which is part of
1156 3 | spiritual circumcision has shone out into the voluntary obediences
1157 13 | carried His "wood" on His own shoulders, adhering to the horns of
1158 9 | neither did contend nor shout, nor was His voice heard
1159 13 | commanded not to rain a shower upon the vineyard of Sorek,"--
1160 13 | rains, nor fertilized by showers, out of which man was of
1161 8 | Whence, therefore, do we showy that the Christ came within
1162 11 | introduced me into the inner shrine of the house of the Lord;
1163 13 | mid-day:" (and when did it "shudder exceedingly" except at the
1164 13 | when Christ suffered), "and shuddered," he says, "most exceedingly;"
1165 7 | limits; the Britons are shut within the circuit of their
1166 3 | ploughs, and their lances into sickles; and nations shall not take
1167 10 | than His who alone was so signally crucified by the People.
1168 9 | because that which Emmanuel signifies is come--that is, "God with
1169 9 | shall wish to say Emmanuel, signify that God is with us: and
1170 10 | His passion of "the tree." Similarly, again, Isaiah says: "For
1171 9 | or to convert whoever are simple, you have the audacity to
1172 2 | what he was offering in simplicity of heart, and reprobated
1173 2 | given) in Horeb, nor in Sinai and in the desert, but was
1174 10 | savagery by transfixing His sinews with nails. Else it is idle
1175 3 | blood;" and again, "Woe! sinful nation; a people full of
1176 10 | enter the lists one day singly against the devil--the figure
1177 5 | dost not divide aright--sinned? Hold thy peace. For unto
1178 2 | circumcise him, even after his sinning, if circumcision purges?
1179 12 | that is, to free them from sins--"and from the house of prison"--
1180 12 | that is, of death--"such as sit in darkness"--of ignorance,
1181 11 | in his hand. And, behold, six men were coming toward the
1182 2 | nor had been anxious to skulk beneath a tree to escape
1183 1pref | idols which formerly it used slavishly to serve, has been converted
1184 13 | you; in anxiety shall ye sleep." Since, therefore, the
1185 1pref | the men had been wholly smelted by fire, and there had come
1186 10 | for every one hurt by such snakes--that is, his angels--on
1187 2 | the conflagration of the Sodomites.~
1188 9 | calls your rulers "rulers of Sodore," and your people the "people
1189 9 | For He was from the native soil of Bethlehem, and from the
1190 7 | beyond Cyrene, Romans and sojourners, yes, and in Jerusalem Jews,
1191 9 | namely,) to serve as a soldier before developing into manhood,
1192 10 | lamb, and were to eat this solemn sacrifice of this day (that
1193 4 | the celebration of this solemnity is to consist, that Joshua
1194 | sometimes
1195 14conc| afterwards, after making Him somewhat lower than angels, "crowned
1196 7 | ever the theme of prophetic song, upon whom we--the nations,
1197 9 | are to know how to lance sooner than how to lacerate the
1198 13 | shower upon the vineyard of Sorek,"--the clouds being celestial
1199 1pref | began to be overcast by a sort of cloud. It was therefore
1200 5 | as well for sins as for souls; and nowhere else but in
1201 3 | Make a renewal for you, and sow not in thorns; be circumcised
1202 2 | Fashioner of humanity,the Sower of universal nations be
1203 2 | after the interval and spaces of four hundred years. In
1204 7 | Moors, all the limits of the Spains, and the diverse nations
1205 5 | reprobated--of which Isaiah withal speaks, saying, "To what end is
1206 2 | enclosed all the precepts specially of the posterior Law, which
1207 4 | been consummated at its specific times, so also the observance
1208 10 | a hanging posture, for a spectacle of healing to Israel, at
1209 9 | Inquire, then, whether this speech, "God with us" (which is
1210 10 | Lord Jesus was the theme of speech--destined as He was to enter
1211 10 | his blessing) interprets spiritually thus: "Simeon and Levi perfected
1212 10 | other hand, Christ, who spoke not guile from His mouth,
1213 13 | as to seem justly to have spoken of himself; but the Christ
1214 4 | walls of the city would spontaneously fall. Which was so done;
1215 2 | precepts which afterwards sprouted forth when given through
1216 1pref | contentious cable they each spun out the day until evening.
1217 14conc| point to each successive stage in the character of the
1218 14conc| likewise made, through all (stages of suffering) a victim for
1219 14conc| sight; and they who were standing by led (Him) unto Him. And
1220 9 | the guiding and indicating star, became "the spoils of Samaria,"
1221 10 | my soul! and upon their station rest not my heart! because
1222 2 | adultery; Thou shalt not steal; False witness thou shall
1223 2 | abstained, if they had not stealthily tasted of the fruit of the
1224 2 | Law of Moses, written in stone-tables, I contend that there was
1225 3 | were a city which is being stormed." Why so? Because the subsequent
1226 3 | deserted and subverted by strange peoples, the daughter of
1227 9 | power"--for that is the "strength"--of the East is wont to
1228 14conc| In the next place, He was stripped of His former sordid raiment,
1229 9 | since God is proposing a struggle. Therefore God Himself will
1230 10 | the more likely to be "a stumbling-stone," if it had been nakedly
1231 4 | fathers to the primitive style of life by fighting on the
1232 9 | suckler and nurse, and thus subdue Damascus and Samaria in
1233 8 | completed, and the Jews subdued, there afterwards ceased
1234 8 | first year of his empire, subdues the Jews in war; and there
1235 9 | this passage as well. For subjoined is withal the interpretation
1236 10 | resurrection. Finally, he subjoins: "Therefore He shall have
1237 7 | inaccessible to the Romans, but subjugated to Christ, and of the Sarmatians,
1238 9 | sword; of whom he proceeds subjunctively to say, "Outstretch and
1239 14conc| into heaven) and raised sublime for the purpose of consummation,
1240 13 | where the iron had been submerged, forthwith it rose and swam
1241 2 | determine we the sum and substance of the actual question within
1242 7 | would come; that, if we succeed in recognising that He has
1243 14conc| they, too, point to each successive stage in the character of
1244 9 | course of the appointing of a successor to Moses, Oshea the son
1245 9 | the back or neck of His suckler and nurse, and thus subdue
1246 9 | again," say they, "nature suffers not a 'virgin' to be a parent;
1247 10 | we will prove that it may suffice that the death of the Christ
1248 11 | unction" thenceforth cease. Sufficient it is thus far, on these
1249 3 | loaves"--the manna--and sufficiently bound to God by His benefits--
1250 14conc| evidences of ignobility suit the FIRST ADVENT, just as
1251 14conc| throne "unto the age" is more suitable to Christ, God's Son, than
1252 2 | foot, and determine we the sum and substance of the actual
1253 9 | each count be disposed of summarily. Accordingly, let us work
1254 11 | FURTHER PROOFS, FROM EZEKIEL. SUMMARY OF THE PROPHETIC ARGUMENT
1255 9 | babyish cry the infant would summon men to arms, and would give
1256 3 | OF CIRCUMCISION AND THE SUPERCESSION OF THE OLD LAW.~But Abraham, (
1257 2 | times. For the subsequent superinduction of a law is the work of
1258 9 | prophet, on the count of superstition and malediction. So, again,
1259 8 | in the beginning of thy supplication went out a word. And I am
1260 5 | wheat flour, it is a vain supplicatory gift: a thing execrable
1261 9 | our interpretation will be supported while (we find that) elsewhere
1262 9 | battle,--oiled first, I suppose, to dry in the sun, and
1263 6 | the old Law's precepts are suppressed, and that the beginnings
1264 4 | sabbath. But the Jews are sure to say, that ever since
1265 10 | critical, he ought rather, surely, to have commended his prayer
1266 13 | it rose and swam on the surface, and the "wood" sank, which
1267 13 | whereby it had extorted His surrender to the cross. And thus,
1268 1pref | abandoning the Divinity, was surrendered to images; while "the people"
1269 9 | amass all the vigour of the surrounding peoples, gold and silver."
1270 10 | shall die, and ye shall suspend him on a tree, his body
1271 10 | sins were the cause of his suspension on the tree. On the other
1272 13 | prophets, at the present day sustain in the world that treatment
1273 13 | submerged, forthwith it rose and swam on the surface, and the "
1274 9 | equally great and proud of her sway, and triumphant over the
1275 13 | of yore wherewith Moses sweetened the bitter water; whence
1276 9 | life, than which nought is sweeter); and this had to come about,
1277 8 | Moses. Accordingly, all the synagogue of Israel did slay Him,
1278 13 | worn-out tanks," that is, synagogues for the use of the "dispersions
1279 9 | Syrophoenicia on the division of the Syrias: the "power" whereof Christ
1280 9 | it was transferred into Syrophoenicia on the division of the Syrias:
1281 7 | and Asia, and Pamphylia, tarriers in Egypt, and inhabiters
1282 13 | time past He was wont to tarry in the temple before the
1283 13 | heathendom in which we were tarrying perishing with thirst (that
1284 2 | world; who did not first taste death, in order that, being
1285 3 | understood but we, who, fully taught by the new law, observe
1286 9 | order we have set down, teaching that Christ was announced
1287 14conc| universal spitting, and tearing, and piercing, was cast
1288 2 | be believed to have been temporarily observed and kept. And let
1289 14conc| even after His baptism had tempted Him. In the next place,
1290 10 | days announced under the term "bread." If you shall still
1291 13 | he says, "shall meditate terror,"--namely, at the time when
1292 9 | doubly sharpened with the two Testaments of the ancient law and the
1293 11 | women sitting and bewailing Thammuz. And the Lord said unto
1294 13 | which now Christ through theflesh has been born of a virgin; "
1295 2 | contravening God's precept; from theft also they would have abstained,
1296 11 | see greater affections of theirs. And He introduced me into
1297 2 | their neighbour--that is, themselves--they would not have believed
1298 8 | libations and sacrifices," which thenceforward have not been able to be
1299 | thereafter
1300 13 | the heaven turned pale thereat" (and when did it turn pale?
1301 | thereby
1302 14conc| of God, it has resulted therefrom, that, by fixing their gaze
1303 9 | devil, who to this hour thinks himself to be reigning,
1304 14conc| little child, as a root in a thirsty land; and there was not
1305 2 | Abraham's "four hundred and thirty years" that the Law was
1306 13 | horns of the cross, with a thorny crown encircling His head.
1307 9 | we, on the contrary, have thought they ought to be admonished
1308 9 | everywhere-flying precepts (arrows) threatening the exposure of every heart,
1309 1pref | or else as "dust out of a threshing-floor:" although we have God Himself
1310 14conc| gospel. In short, again, a throne "unto the age" is more suitable
1311 2 | shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; Thou shalt not kill; Thou
1312 3 | actions of "ploughing" and "tilling" the land. Therefore as
1313 3 | time, not for a prerogative title to salvation. In fact, subsequent
1314 12 | says, "My Son art Thou; to-day have I begotten Thee. Ask
1315 14conc| perdition, marked with manifest tokens of Christ's passion; who,
1316 13 | temple was rent, and the tombs were burst asunder? "because
1317 9 | shall hear, and the mutes' tongues shall be loosed, and the
1318 11 | loins: and they entered, and took their stand close to the
1319 3 | to be manifest above the tops of the mounts: "And it shall
1320 8 | beginning, flying; and he touched me, as it were, at the hour
1321 4 | existence of the prescript touching "the day of the sabbaths."
1322 8 | inquired into, which we shall trace in Daniel; and, after computing
1323 11 | points, to have meantime traced the course of the ordained
1324 2 | province withal subsequently to train, who had before resolved
1325 14conc| instigator, to wit, of Judas the traitor--who even after His baptism
1326 3 | clemency, and to convert to tranquillity the pristine ferocity of "
1327 9 | humility, patience, and tranquillity--whether He be come? Equally
1328 9 | Scriptures, figuratively to use a transference of name grounded on parallelism
1329 10 | exhausted their savagery by transfixing His sinews with nails. Else
1330 9 | carrying compunction and transfixion to each conscience: "peoples
1331 13 | shall howl: for ye shall transmit your name for a satiety
1332 3 | upraised" in Egypt, and was transported through the Red Sea, and
1333 13 | sustain in the world that treatment which the prophets always
1334 13 | Christ, when the earth also trembled to her centre, and the veil
1335 5 | thy brother. Groaning and trembling shalt thou be upon the earth,
1336 13 | thirst, and from general tribulation of spirit shall howl: for
1337 11 | son of man? Are such deeds trifles to the house of Judah, that
1338 9 | and proud of her sway, and triumphant over the saints. On this
1339 9 | not; lift up, as with a trumpet, thy voice, and announce
1340 11 | eyes; and thou shalt not trust thy life." And so, since
1341 14conc| to the foot, and with a turban and a clean mitre, that
1342 10 | that is, his angels--on turning intently from the peccancy
1343 5 | angel Malachi, one of the twelve prophets: "I will not receive
1344 11 | of the altar, as it were twenty and five men have turned
1345 10 | of the Lord's cross, the twenty-first Psalm will at length be
1346 10 | there pointed to, nor any two-horned minotaur. But Christ was
1347 7 | various ways by the devil, are unbarred by the faith of Christ,--
1348 2 | was offering. Noah also, uncircumcised--yes, and inobservant of
1349 14conc| glory), they have been (not undeservedly) deceived as to the more
1350 14conc| grace; but His mien was unhonoured, deficient in comparison
1351 10 | and from the horn of the unicorns my humility,"--from the
1352 2 | God, the founder of the universe, the Governor of the whole
1353 7 | and islands many, to us unknown, and which we can scarce
1354 2 | would not have tasted of the unlawful fruit. Therefore, in this
1355 14conc| at all events, the more unworthy--that is, the FIRST. And
1356 2 | contend that there was a law unwritten, which was habitually understood
1357 10 | already committed by them, he upbraids others, and not them, with
1358 3 | sign," not for salvation, urges the circumcision of the
1359 10 | reference to Christ, and urging, besides, that it is not
1360 13 | with a prophecy of Hosea, uttered on this wise: "Before daybreak
1361 7 | instance, by this time, the varied races of the Gaetulians,
1362 14conc| salvation. Therefore, since the vaticinations of the FIRST ADVENT obscured
1363 13 | trembled to her centre, and the veil of the temple was rent,
1364 11 | at hand; and each one had vessels of extermination in his
1365 5 | sacrifices of His name: take up victims and enter into His courts."
1366 10 | which Jesus was to win the victory? Why, again, did the same
1367 8 | year, which is the xx and viiith of Augustus after the death
1368 4 | other law which they thus vindicated, than the one in which they
1369 13 | blessings,"--of course that virgin-earth, not yet irrigated with
1370 9 | setting before us, then, of a virgin-mother is deservedly believed to
1371 9 | shall conduct thee"--the virtue to wit, of the spiritual
1372 8 | any volumes of prophets, visible miracles wrought by any
1373 9 | that the pronouncement is visibly figurative. "But again,"
1374 8 | assert that His advent "seals visions and prophecy." Accordingly,
1375 13 | found" in "the time of their visitation," their land has been made "
1376 8 | Otho . . . . iii days.~Vitellius, . . . viii mos., xxvii
1377 1pref | been depicted, out of the volume of the divine Scriptures,
1378 3 | circumcision has shone out into the voluntary obediences of peace. For "
1379 12 | thenceforth emerging from the vortex of human error to the Lord
1380 5 | render to the Highest thy vows." Thus, accordingly, the
1381 10 | universal nations through faith, wafting them away from earth to
1382 10 | reigned from the tree," I wait to hear what you understand
1383 3 | nations; and many shall walk, and say, Come, ascend we
1384 13 | contumacious and gainsaying Me, who walketh in a way not good, but after
1385 9 | that name, nor engaged in warfare." But we, on the contrary,
1386 9 | in the Psalms, without warlike achievements, with the figurative
1387 9 | sign; but not equally so a warrior-infant. For there would not in
1388 8 | the name of Christ, are washed away for all who believe
1389 13 | of Sion is derelict, as a watch-tower in a vineyard, or as a shed
1390 3 | in a vineyard, and like a watchhouse in a cucumber-field, and
1391 8 | on His sanctifying the waters in His own baptism, all
1392 7 | prophetic song, upon whom we--the nations, to wit--were
1393 9 | Thus mighty in war and weapon-bearing is Christ; thus will He "
1394 10 | into his bread, and let us wear him away out of the land
1395 10 | What king in the world wears the ensign of his power
1396 11 | and God shall give thee a wearying heart, and a pining soul,
1397 2 | given to Moses, at that (well-known) time after their exode
1398 5 | me," He says, "the finest wheat flour, it is a vain supplicatory
1399 4 | sabbath-day. For seven days, whencesoever they may have commenced,
1400 | whenever
1401 6 | was to supervene a time whereat the precepts of the ancient
1402 13 | mystery, it was of yore wherewith Moses sweetened the bitter
1403 10 | bull!"--that is, Christ, whom--after the slaughter of prophets--
1404 3 | a people full of sins; wicked sons; ye have quite forsaken
1405 10 | death, because He did not wickedness, nor was guile found in
1406 10 | through which Jesus was to win the victory? Why, again,
1407 3 | return from battle, bread and wine. "But again," (you say) "
1408 11 | that they may be thoroughly wiped away; but all upon whom
1409 9 | do, whenever they shall wish to say Emmanuel, signify
1410 7 | whom we--the nations, to wit--were ever announced as destined
1411 13 | former gifts of grace being withdrawn, "the law and the prophets
1412 2 | Thou shalt not steal; False witness thou shall not utter; Honour
1413 3 | full of blood;" and again, "Woe! sinful nation; a people
1414 1pref | proceed out of the womb of one woman: nor did grace make distinction
1415 9 | the Assyrians," this is a wondrous sign. Keep to the limit
1416 4 | only must the priests have worked, but the city must have
1417 13 | God's grace desisted (from working) among them. And "the clouds
1418 14conc| He pronounces Himself "a worm, and not a man, an ignominy
1419 1pref | conjunction with Jeroboam, worship golden kine, and groves,
1420 7 | everywhere, believed everywhere, worshipped by all the above-enumerated
1421 14conc| as) manifest and wholly worthy of God, it has resulted
1422 1pref | I. OCCASION OF WRITING. RELATIVE POSITION OF JEWS
1423 10 | X. CONCERNING THE PASSION
1424 14conc| XIV. CONCLUSION. CLUE TO THE
1425 8 | Augustus reigned other . xliii years .~For all the years
1426 8 | years .~Then~Philopator . . .xvii years ~After him~Epiphanes, . .
1427 8 | For Darius reigned . . xviiii years .~Artaxerxes reigned . .
1428 8 | is also~named Melas, ...xxi years .~Alexander the Macedonian, .
1429 8 | him succeeds~Euergetes, .xxv years .~Then~Philopator . . .
1430 8 | Vitellius, . . . viii mos., xxvii days (8 mos.)~Vespasian,
1431 8 | xx years, vii months, xxviii~days (20 etc.).~(In the
1432 8 | another~Euergetes, . . .xxviiii years .~Then another~Soter, . . . .
1433 8 | Alexandria,)~Soter,. . . . .xxxv years .~To whom succeeds~
1434 8 | xxxviii years .~Ptolemy . . . .xxxvii years .~Cleopatra, . . .
1435 8 | Then another~Soter, . . . .xxxviii years .~Ptolemy . . . .xxxvii
1436 10 | cross. For even in a ship's yard--which is part of a cross--
1437 13 | tree" in paradise which yielded death to the protoplasts,
1438 | yourselves
1439 11 | eyes, and pity not elder or youth or virgin; and little ones