22. et are unworthy to be saved. He has declared that He will
Divinity and Humaniiy of Christ.
Just. Kiiigdom, one like the Son of Man, does he not signify the Mart. g^j-^-,g thing ?
For the words, like the Son ofMan, shew that "
' He should appear, and be made man, but that He should i.s!
Dan. 2, ^^^ ^^ of human seed ; and when he calls Him, a Stone cut out ivithout hands, he declares the same thing in a figure ; for to say that He is cut out without hands, shews He is not a > See human production, but is of the wilP of God the Father of note*!'
^^^ things, who sendeth Him forth.
These words of Isaiah also, JFho shall declare His generation? shew that He has a generation that is ineifable ; for no one who is a man of men has a generation that cannot be declared; and are not those words of Moses, He shall wash His robe in the blood of the grajye, that, as I have already often affirmed to you, which He has mystically foretold ?
He foretold that He should have blood, but not of men, as it is not man who engenders the blood of the grape, but God
; and when Isa.9,6. Isaiah called Him, The Angel of the great Cou7isel, did he not foretell that He should be a Teacher of those things which He taught when He did come ?
For the great things which the Father had purposed to do to those who either were or should be pleasing to Him, and to all who revolted against His will, angels and man alike. He alone Matt. 8, taught without disguise, saying, They shall come from the 21. 22. g^^^ andfrom the west, and they shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the kingd,om of heaven : but the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness.
Matt. 7, And, Many shall say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have ^^- ^^' we not eat, and drank, and prophesied, and cast out devils Luteis, i/2 Thy Name?
And I will say unto them. Depart from Me.
Matt. 7, And in other words, in which He will condemn those who 22. et are unworthy to be saved. He has declared that He will Matt, ^^y? Depart ye into outer darkness, which the Father hath 25,41. prepared for the devil and his angels.
And again in other Lukeio, words He has said, I give you power to tread on serpe7its, and scorpions, and venomous insects, and over all the power of the enemy.
And now we who believe in Him Who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, Jesus our Lord, exorcise all evil spirits, and have them in subjection to us^.
^ Many other primitive writers asphilus of Antioch to Autolycus, book 2. sert the same thing; e. g.
St. Then- §. 8. page 354. Ed. Ben. of St. Justin