Since, therefore, the Jews were predicted as destined to suffer these calamities on Christ's account, and we find that they have suffered them, and see them sent into dispersion and abiding in it, manifest it is that it is on Christ's account that these things have befallen the Jews, the sense of the Scriptures harmonizing with the issue of events and of the order of the times. Or else, if Christ is not yet come, on whose account they were predicted as destined thus to suffer, when He shall have come it follows that they will thus suffer. And where will then be a daughter of Sion to be derelict, who now has no existence? where the cities to be exust, which are already exust and in heaps? where the dispersion of a race which is now in exile? Restore to Judea the condition which Christ is to find; and (then, if you will), contend that some other (Christ) is coming.
[1383] Mic. v. 2; Matt. ii. 3-6. Tertullian's Latin agrees rather with the Greek of St. Matthew than with the LXX.
[1384] See Isa. i. 7.
[1385] Comp. John v. 43; x. 37, 38.
[1386] Isa. xxxiii. 17.
[1387] Isa. xxxiii. 18.
[1388] Comp. the "failing eyes" in the passage from Deuteronomy given in c. xi., if "eyes" is to be taken as the subject here. If not, we have another instance of the slipshod writing in which this treatise abounds.
[1389] As His name "Christ" or "Messiah" implies.
[1390] Comp. Ex. xxx. 22-33.
[1391] i.e., in Jerusalem or Judea.
[1392] The Jews.
[1393] Comp. 1 Kings (3 Kings in LXX.) i. 39, where the Eng. ver. has "an horn;" the LXX. to keras, "the horn;" which at that time, of course, was in David's tabernacle (2 Sam.--2 Kings in LXX.--vi. 17,) for "temple" there was yet none.
[1394] Dan. ix. 26.
[1395] See Isa. lxv. 2; Rom. x. 21.
[1396] Ps. xxii. 16, 17 (xxi. 17, 18, in LXX.), and lxix. 21 (lxviii. 22 in LXX.).
[1397] i.e., displaced, dislocated.
[1398] See c. x. above.
[1399] See Ps. lxvii. 6 (lxvi. 7 in LXX.), lxxxv. 12 (lxxxiv. 13 in LXX.).
[1400] "Lignum," as before.
[1401] See Joel ii. 22.
[1402] See c. xi. above, and the note there.
[1403] Sacramento.
[1404] See Ex. xv. 22-26.
[1405] Sæculi.
[1406] See Acts xxvi. 18, ad fin.
[1407] See Jer. ii. 10-12.
[1408] See Amos viii. 9, as before, in c.x.
[1409] See Matt. xxvii. 45, 50-52; Mark xv. 33, 37, 38, Luke xxiii. 44, 45.
[1410] hudatos zoes in the LXX. here (ed. Tischendorf, who quotes the Cod. Alex. as reading, however, hudatos zontos). Comp. Rev. xxii. 1, 17, and xxi. 6; John vii. 37-39. (The reference, it will be seen, is still to Jer. ii. 10-13; but the writer has mixed up words of Amos therewith.)
[1411] Comp. The ten diasporan ton Ellenon of John vii. 35; and see 1 Pet. i. 1.
[1412] See Isa. lxv. 13-16 in LXX.
[1413] Hujus ligni sacramentum.
[1414] Lignum.
[1415] Helisæo. Comp. Luke iv. 27.
[1416] The careless construction of leaving the nominative "Elisha" with no verb to follow it is due to the original, not to the translator.
[1417] See 2 Kings vi. 1-7 (4 Kings vi. 1-7 in LXX). It is not said, however, that the wood sank.
[1418] This conclusion they had drawn before, and are not said to have drawn, consequently, upon this occasion. See 2 Kings (4 Kings in LXX.) ii. 16.
[1419] Sacramento.
[1420] "Sæculi," or perhaps here "heathendom."
[1421] For a similar argument, see Anselm's Cur Deus Homo? l. i. c. iii. sub fin.
[1422] Sæculo.
[1423] Mortis necem.
[1424] Comp. Acts vii. 51, 52; Heb. xi. 32-38.
[1425] Sacramenta.
[1426] See Gen. xxii. 1-14.
[1427] See Matt. xxvii. 11-14; Mark xv. 1-5; John xix. 8-12.
[1428] See Isa. liii. 7, 8.
[1429] Oehler refers to Hos. vi. 1; add 2 (ad init.).
[1430] See Luke i. 35.
[1431] For this sense of the word "approve," comp. Acts ii. 22, Greek and English, and Phil. i. 10, Greek and English.
[1432] See Isa. ii. 20.
[1433] See Isa. iii. 1, 3; and comp. 1 Cor. iii. 10; Eph. ii. 20, 21; 1 Pet. ii. 4-8, and many similar passages.
[1434] Comp. Isa. v. 2 in LXX. and Lowth.
[1435] Comp. Isa. v. 6, 7, with Matt. xxvii. 20-25, Mark xv. 8-15, Luke xxiii. 13-25, John xix. 12-16.
[1436] Matt. xi. 13; Luke xvi. 16.
[1437] See John v. 1-9; and comp. de Bapt. c. v., and the note there.
[1438] See Isa. lii. 5; Ezek. xxxvi. 20, 23; Rom. ii. 24. (The passage in Isaiah in the LXX. agrees with Rom. ii. 24.)
[1439] See Isa. lv. 6, 7.
[1440] See Luke xix. 41-44.
[1441] See Isa. i. 7, 8, 4.
[1442] Isa. i. 20.
[1443] See Ps. lix. 11 (lviii. 12 in LXX.)
[1444] See Isa. l. 11 in LXX.