wise and prudent, and who loves his Lord?"[1] Since, therefore, having renewed us by the remission of our sins, He hath made us after another pattern, [it is His purpose] that we should possess the soul of children, inasmuch as He has created us anew by His Spirit.[2] For the Scripture says concerning us, while He speaks to the Son, "Let us make man after our image, and after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the beasts of the earth, and the fowls of heaven, and the fishes of the sea."[3] And the Lord said, on beholding the fair creature[4] man, "Increase, and multiply, and replenish the earth."[5] These things [were spoken] to the Son. Again, I will show thee how, in respect to us,[6] He has accomplished a second fashioning in these last days. The Lord says, "Behold, I will make[7] the last like the first."[8] In reference to this, then, the prophet proclaimed, "Enter ye into the land flowing with milk and honey, and have dominion over it."[9] Behold, therefore, we have been refashioned, as again He says in another prophet, "Behold, saith the Lord, I will take away from these, that is, from those whom the Spirit of the Lord foresaw, their stony hearts, and I will put hearts of flesh within them,"[10] because He[11] was to be manifested in flesh, and to sojourn among us. For, my brethren, the habitation of our heart is a holy temple to the Lord.[12] For again saith the Lord, "And wherewith shall I appear before the Lord my God, and be glorified?"[13] He says,[14] "I will
- ↑ Not found in Scripture. Comp. Isa. xl. 13; Prov. i. 6. Hilgenfeld, however, changes the usual punctuation, which places a colon after prophet, and reads, "For the prophet speaketh the parable of the Lord. Who shall understand," etc.
- ↑ The Greek is here very elliptical and obscure: "His Spirit" is inserted above, from the Latin.
- ↑ Gen. i. 26.
- ↑ Cod. Sin. has "our fair formation."
- ↑ Gen. i. 28.
- ↑ Cod. Sin. inserts, "the Lord says."
- ↑ Cod. Sin. has "I make."
- ↑ Not in Scripture, but comp. Matt. xx. 16, and 2 Cor. v. 17.
- ↑ Ex. xxxiii. 3.
- ↑ Ezek. xi. 19, xxxvi. 26.
- ↑ Cod. Sin. inserts "Himself;" comp. John i. 14.
- ↑ Comp. Eph. ii. 21.
- ↑ Comp. Ps. xlii. 2.
- ↑ Cod. Sin. omits "He says."
