A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church Volume 5; Saint Augustin Anti-Pelagian writings - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... some one would confine the meaning of the phrase so far as to say, that nothing else is meant in the Lord's saying, "He desired to see my day," than "He desired to see me," who am the never-ending Day, or the unfailing Light, as when we mention the life of the Son, concerning which it is said in the Gospel: "So hath He given to the Son to have life in Himself."' Here the life is nothing less than Himself. So we understand the Son Himself to be the life, when He said, " I am the way, the truth, and the life;"' of whom also it was said, "He is the true God, and eternal life."3 Supposing, then, that Abraham desired to see this equal divinity of the Son's with the Father, without any precognition of His coming in the flesh--as certain philosophers sought Him, who knew nothing of His flesh--can that other act of Abraham, when he orders his servant to place his hand under his thigh, and to swear by the God of heaven,4 be rightly understood by any one otherwise than as showing that Abraham well knew that the flesh in which the God of heaven was to come was the offspring of that very thigh?5 8 Rom. iii. 21. i Judg. vi. 36-40. Matt, xxvii. 51. 6 1 Cor. xv. ai, aa. 7 1 Cor. xi. 3. 8 John viii. 56. CHAP. 33 XVIII.--HOW CHRIST IS OUR MEDIATOR. Of this flesh and blood Melchizedek also, when he blessed Abram himself,6 gave the testimony which is very well known to Christian believers, so that long afterwards it was said to Christ in the Psalms: "Thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek."7 This was not then an accomplished fact, but was still future; yet that faith of the fathers, which is the self-same faith as our own, used to chant it. Now, to all who find death in Adam, Christ is of this av...

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