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 1 1 |             end, even death itself, says Seneca to like effect. It
 2 5 |             of creation. And "God," says (the Scripture), "formed
 3 7 |          For although the Scripture says, "Shall the clay say to
 4 9 |           although ruined, since He says, "I am come to save that
 5 9 |           although sinful, since He says, "I desire rather the salvation
 6 9 |             although condemned, for says He, "I shall wound, and
 7 10|             They notice God when He says in Genesis, "My Spirit shall
 8 10|          the flesh. For although he says that "in his flesh dwelleth
 9 13|           even in His own Scripture says: "The righteous shall flourish
10 16|            actions to the flesh, he says, "Therefore glorify and
11 22|        coming on the earth." "For," says He, "the powers of heaven
12 23|   resurrection. In so many words he says: "Since ye are risen with
13 23|         hidden. In like manner John says: "And it doth not yet appear
14 23|         righteousness by faith." He says "we wait for it," not we
15 23|     Philippians: "If by any means," says he, "I might attain to the
16 23|             proper time. Even as he says to the Gala-tians: "Let
17 23|            the Acts refers, when he says: "Repent ye therefore, and
18 26|             God. Then he afterwards says: "The earth saw and trembled;
19 27|            reward of good works, he says: "Then shall thy light break
20 28|             prophet, (how that) God says: "For your blood of your
21 29|          And the hand of the Lord," says he, "was upon me; and the
22 30|          the concluding sentence He says, "And ye shall know how
23 31|     likewise. "Ye shall go forth," (says Malachi), "from your sepulchres,
24 31|        enemies." And again, (Isaiah says): "Your heart shall rejoice,
25 33|        shall be more tolerable," He says, "for Tyre and Sidon in
26 34|           with the passage where He says that He is come to "to seek
27 34|        meaning of the thing when He says: "I came not to do my own
28 34|             us! For more "blessed," says Christ, "are they who have
29 35|        without the will of God." He says this, that you may believe
30 37|  CONSISTENTLY WITH OUR DOCTRINE.~He says, it is true, that "the flesh
31 37|           be scattered from Him, He says: "The flesh profiteth nothing."
32 37|           by death; for "the hour," says He, "is coming, when the
33 37|        entered? Then again, when He says, "Marvel not at this: for
34 39|               Men and brethren," he says, "I am a Pharisee, the son
35 39|             before Agrippa also, he says that he was advancing "none
36 40|          passage, where the apostle says: "For our light affliction,
37 40|            resurrection. So also he says elsewhere: "If so be that
38 40|    statement he had already made he says, "When we were come into
39 41|       sufferings: "for we know;" he says, "that if our earthly house
40 42|           flesh. "And the dead," he says, "shall be raised, and we
41 42|       surprised at last; because he says that we are burdened whilst
42 42|            immortality? Now, he who says that mortality is going
43 43|            In the same way, when he says, "Therefore we are always
44 43|           absence from the body, he says that we are strangers, absent
45 43|          while to his home. Then he says even to all: "We therefore
46 44|        person of Jesus Christ," and says that "we have this treasure
47 44|           the Lord? In order, as he says, "that His life also may
48 45|             old man. For "put off," says he, "concerning the former
49 46|          the Spirit. And, again, he says that "the body is dead;"
50 46|        perfect plainness? "For if," says he, "the Spirit of Him that
51 46|            of death. "For the law," says he, "of the Spirit of life
52 46|             therefore (the apostle) says that "sin dwelleth in the
53 46|           on account of sin. For he says in another passage also "
54 47|            On the same principle he says: "Likewise reckon ye also
55 48|             in the flesh. "For," he says, "since by man came death,
56 48| resurrection of the dead." (This he says) in order, on the one hand,
57 48|          the flesh. "I die daily," (says he); that is, undoubtedly,
58 49|            to this t point also. He says: "The first man is of i
59 49|             discipline. For when he says "let us bear" in the imperative
60 51|          neither shall corruption," says he, "inherit incorruption.
61 51|       inherit incorruption. This he says, not that you may take flesh
62 51|           of death itself: "Death," says he, "is swallowed up in
63 51|            against his will. Now he says in a previous passage (of
64 51|     statement to the flesh, when he says "this corruptible" and "
65 52|         such question. "Thou fool," says he, "that which thou sowest
66 52|         which is sown, even when he says, "But bare grain, it may
67 52|        course to the grain which he says is sown bare. No doubt,
68 52|            is in this sense that he says, "All flesh is not the same
69 52|           whom the prophet actually says, "Man is like the senseless
70 52|        comparison of) the grain, he says: "It is sown in corruption,
71 54|            this same intent. Death, says the apostle, has devoured
72 57|        breaches. And so the apostle says: "The dead shall be raised
73 58|           PEACE.~"Everlasting joy," says Isaiah, "shall be upon their
74 59|             however, in his epistle says, "Whether it be the world,
75 59|           gives you no help when he says, "All flesh is grass;" and
76 62|     effectual end: "They shall be," says He, "equal unto the angels."