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Translated from the Greek original by Frederick Crombie.
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Page 119
For they appear to have heard the declaration, "I kill," [3282] and they often make it to us a subject of reproach; but the words, "I will make alive," they do not remember,--the whole sentence showing that those who live amid public wickedness, and who work wickedly, are put to death by God, and that a better life is infused into them instead, even one which God will give to those who have died to sin. And so also these men have heard the words, "I will smite;" but they do not see these, "and I will heal," which are like the words of a physician, who cuts bodies asunder, and inflicts severe wounds, in order to extract from them substances that are injurious and prejudicial to health, and who does not terminate his work with pains and lacerations, but by his treatment restores the body to that state of soundness which he has in view. Moreover, they have not heard the whole of the announcement, "For He maketh sore, and again bindeth up;" but only this part, "He maketh sore." So in like manner acts this Jew of Celsus who quotes the words, "O Father, would that this cup might pass from Me;" but who does not add what follows, and which exhibits the firmness of Jesus, and His preparedness for suffering. But these matters, which afford great room for explanation from the wisdom of God, and which may reasonably be pondered over [3283] by those whom Paul calls "perfect" when he said, "We speak wisdom among them who are perfect," [3284] we pass by for the present, and shall speak for a little of those matters which are useful for our present purpose.
[3282] Deut. xxxii. 39.
[3283] kai tauta de pollen echonta diegesin apo sophias Theou hois ho Paulos onomase teleiois eulogos paradothesemenen.
[3284] 1 Cor. ii. 6.
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