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BOOK I.

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PART I.

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CHAPTERS I THROUGH III.

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BOOK I.

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CHAPTER I.

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THE PLAN OF THE WORK.

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It is my purpose to write an account of
the successions of the holy apostles,

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as well as of the times which have elapsed
from the days of our Savior to our own,

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and to relate the many important events
which are said to have occurred in the

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history of the Church, and to mention
those who have governed and presided over

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the Church in the most prominent parishes,
and those who in each generation have

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proclaimed the divine word, either orally
or in writing.

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It is my purpose also to give the names
and number and times of those who through

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love of innovation have run into the
greatest errors, and, proclaiming

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themselves discoverers of knowledge,
falsely so called, have like fierce wolves

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unmercifully devastated the flock of
Christ.

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It is my intention, moreover, to recount
the misfortunes which immediately came

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upon the whole Jewish nation in
consequence of their plots against our

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Savior, and to record the ways and the
times in which the divine word has been

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attacked by the Gentiles, and to describe
the character of those who at various

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periods have contended for it in the face
of blood and of tortures, as well as the

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confessions which have been made in our
own days, and finally the gracious and

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kindly succor which our Savior has
afforded them all.

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Since I propose to write of all these
things, I shall commence my work with the

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beginning of the dispensation of our
Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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But at the outset I must crave for my work
the indulgence of the wise, for I confess

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that it is beyond my power to produce a
perfect and complete history, and since I

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am the first to enter upon the subject,
I am attempting to traverse, as it were,

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a lonely and untrodden path.

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I pray that I may have God as my guide,
and the power of the Lord as my aid,

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since I am unable to find even the bare
footsteps of those who have traveled the

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way before me, except in brief fragments,
in which some in one way, others in

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another, have transmitted to us particular
accounts of the times in which they lived.

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From afar they raise their voices like
torches, and they cry out, as from some

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lofty and conspicuous watchtower,
admonishing us where to walk and how to

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direct the course of our work steadily and
safely.

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Having gathered therefore from the matters
mentioned here and there by them whatever

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we consider important for the present
work, and having plucked like flowers from

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a meadow the appropriate passages from
ancient writers, we shall endeavor to

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embody the whole in an historical
narrative, content if we preserve the

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memory of the successions of the apostles
of our Savior, if not indeed of all,

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yet of the most renowned of them in those
churches which are the most noted,

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and which even to the present time are
held in honor.

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This work seems to me of especial
importance, because I know of no

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ecclesiastical writer who has devoted
himself to this subject, and I hope that

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it will appear most useful to those who
are fond of historical research.

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I have already given an epitome of these
things in the chronological canons which I

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have composed, but notwithstanding that,
I have undertaken in the present work to

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write as full an account of them as I am
able.

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My work will begin, as I have said,
with the dispensation of the Savior

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Christ, which is loftier and greater than
human conception, and with a discussion of

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His divinity.

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For it is necessary, inasmuch as we derive
even our name from Christ, for one who

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proposes to write a history of the Church
to begin with the very origin of Christ's

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dispensation, a dispensation more divine
than many think.

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Chapter 2 Summary View of the Preexistence
and Divinity of Our Savior and Lord Jesus

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Christ Since in Christ there is a twofold
nature, and the one, insofar as he is

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thought of as God, resembles the head of
the body, while the other may be compared

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with the feet, insofar as he, for the sake
of our salvation, put on human nature with

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the same passions as our own, the
following work will be complete only if we

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begin with the chief and lordliest events
of all his history.

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In this way will the antiquity and
divinity of Christianity be shown to those

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who suppose it of recent and foreign
origin, and imagine that it appeared only

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yesterday.

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No language is sufficient to express the
origin and the worth, the being and the

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nature of Christ.

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Wherefore also the Divine Spirit says in
the prophecies, Who shall declare his

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generation?

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For none knoweth the Father except the
Son.

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Neither can any one know the Son
adequately except the Father alone who

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hath begotten him.

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For who beside the Father could clearly
understand the light which was before the

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world, the intellectual and essential
wisdom which existed before the ages,

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the living word which was in the beginning
with the Father and which was God,

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the first and only begotten of God,
which was before every creature and

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creation visible and invisible,
the commander-in-chief of the rational and

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immortal host of heaven, the messenger of
the great council, the executor of the

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Father's unspoken will, the creator with
the Father of all things, the second cause

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of the universe after the Father,
the true and only begotten Son of God,

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the Lord and God and King of all created
things, the one who has received dominion

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and power with divinity itself and with
might and honor from the Father,

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as it is said in regard to him in the
mystical passages of scripture which speak

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of his divinity, in the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with God,

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and the Word was God.

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All things were made by him, and without
him was not anything made.

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This, too, the great Moses teaches,
when, as the most ancient of all the

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prophets, he describes under the influence
of the Divine Spirit the creation and

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arrangement of the universe.

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He declares that the maker of the world
and the creator of all things yielded to

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Christ himself and to none other than his
own clearly divine and firstborn Word the

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making of inferior things, and communed
with him respecting the creation of man.

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For, says he, God said, let us make man in
our image and in our likeness.

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And another of the prophets confirms this,
speaking of God in his hymns as follows.

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He spake, and they were made.

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He commanded, and they were created.

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He here introduces the Father and Maker as
ruler of all, commanding with a kingly nod

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and second to him the divine Word,
none other than the one who is proclaimed

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by us, as carrying out the Father's
commands.

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All that are said to have excelled in
righteousness and piety since the creation

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of man, the great servant Moses,
and before him in the first place Abraham

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and his children, and as many righteous
men and prophets as afterward appeared,

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have contemplated him with the pure eyes
of the mind, and have recognized him and

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offered to him the worship which is due
him as son of God.

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But he, by no means neglectful of the
reverence due the Father, was appointed to

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teach the knowledge of the Father to them
all.

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For instance, the Lord God, it is said,
appeared as a common man to Abraham while

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he was sitting at the oak of Mamre.

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And he, immediately falling down,
although he saw a man with his eyes,

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nevertheless worshipped him as God,
and sacrificed to him as Lord,

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and confessed that he was not ignorant of
his identity when he uttered the words,

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Lord, the judge of all the earth,
wilt thou not execute righteous judgment?

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For if it is unreasonable to suppose that
the unbegotten and immutable essence of

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the Almighty God was changed into the form
of man, or that it deceived the eyes of

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the beholders with the appearance of some
created thing, and if it is unreasonable

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to suppose, on the other hand,
that the scripture should falsely invent

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such things, when the God and Lord who
judgeth all the earth and executeth

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judgment is seen in the form of a man,
who else can be called, if it be not

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lawful to call him the first cause of all
things, than his only preexistent word?

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Concerning whom it is said in the Psalms,
he sent his word and healed them,

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and delivered them from their
destructions.

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Moses most clearly proclaims him second
Lord after the Father, when he says,

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The Lord reigned upon Sodom and Gomorrah,
brimstone and fire from the Lord.

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The divine scripture also calls him God,
when he appeared again to Jacob in the

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form of a man, and said to Jacob,
Thy name shall be called no more Jacob,

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but Israel shall be thy name, because thou
hast prevailed with God.

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Wherefore also Jacob called the name of
that place vision of God, saying,

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For I have seen God face to face,
and my life is preserved.

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Nor is it admissible to suppose that the
theophanies recorded were appearances of

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subordinate angels and ministers of God,
for whenever any of these appeared to men,

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the scripture does not conceal the fact,
but calls them by name not God nor Lord,

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but angels, as it is easy to prove by
numberless testimonies.

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Joshua also, the successor of Moses,
calls him, as leader of the heavenly

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angels and archangels, and of the
supra-mundane powers, and as lieutenant of

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the Father, entrusted with the second rank
of sovereignty and rule over all,

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captain of the host of the Lord,
although he saw him not otherwise than

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again in the form and appearance of a man.

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For it is written, And it came to pass,
when Joshua was at Jericho, that he looked

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and saw a man standing over against him
with his sword drawn in his hand.

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And Joshua went unto him, and said,
Art thou for us or for our adversaries?

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And he said unto him, As captain of the
host of the Lord am I now come.

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And Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
and said unto him, Lord, what dost thou

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command thy servant?

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And the captain of the Lord said unto
Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy feet,

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for the place whereon thou standest is
holy.

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You will perceive also from the same words
that this was no other than he who talked

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with Moses.

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For the scripture says in the same words,
and with reference to the same one,

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When the Lord saw that he drew near to
see, the Lord called to him out of the

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bush, and said, Moses, Moses.

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And he said, What is it?

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And he said, Draw not nigh hither.

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Loose thy shoe from off thy feet,
for the place whereon thou standest is

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holy ground.

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And he said unto him, I am the God of thy
fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God

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of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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And that there is a certain substance
which lived and subsisted before the

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world, and which ministered unto the
Father and God of the universe for the

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formation of all created things,
and which is called the word of God and

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wisdom, we may learn, to quote other
proofs in addition to those already cited,

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from the mouth of wisdom herself,
who reveals most clearly through Solomon

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the following mysteries concerning
herself.

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I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence and
knowledge, and I have invoked

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understanding.

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Through me kings reign, and princes ordain
righteousness.

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Through me the great are magnified,
and through me sovereigns rule the earth.

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To which she adds, The Lord created me in
the beginning of his ways, for his works.

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Before the world he established me,
in the beginning, before he made the

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earth, before he made the depths,
before the mountains were settled,

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before all hills he begot me.

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When he prepared the heavens, I was
present with him.

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And when he established the fountains of
the region under heaven, I was with him,

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disposing.

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I was the one in whom he delighted.

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Daily I rejoiced before him at all times,
when he was rejoicing at having completed

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the world.

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That the divine word therefore pre-existed
and appeared to some, if not to all,

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has thus been briefly shown by us.

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But why the gospel was not preached in
ancient times to all men and to all

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nations, as it is now, will appear from
the following considerations.

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The life of the ancients was not of such a
kind as to permit them to receive the

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all-wise and all-virtuous teaching of
Christ.

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For immediately in the beginning,
after his original life of blessedness,

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the first man despised the command of God
and fell into this mortal and perishable

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state, and exchanged his former divinely
inspired luxury for this curse-laden

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earth.

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His descendants, having filled our earth,
showed themselves much worse, with the

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exception of one here and there,
and entered upon a certain brutal and

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insupportable mode of life.

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They thought neither of city nor state,
neither of arts nor sciences.

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They were ignorant even of the name of
laws and of justice, of virtue and of

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philosophy.

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As nomads they passed their lives in
deserts, like wild and fierce beasts,

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destroying, by an excess of voluntary
wickedness, the natural reason of man,

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and the seeds of thought and of culture
implanted in the human soul.

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They gave themselves wholly over to all
kinds of profanity, now seducing one

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another, now slaying one another,
now eating human flesh, and now daring to

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wage war with the gods and to undertake
those battles of the giants celebrated by

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all, now planning to fortify earth against
heaven, and in the madness of ungoverned

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pride to prepare an attack upon the very
God of all.

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On account of these things, when they
conducted themselves thus, the all-seeing

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God sent down upon them floods and
conflagrations as upon a wild forest

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spread over the whole earth.

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He cut them down with continuous famines
and plagues, with wars, and with

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thunderbolts from heaven, as if to check
some terrible and obstinate disease of

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souls with more severe punishments.

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Then, when the excess of wickedness had
overwhelmed nearly all the race,

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like a deep fit of drunkenness beclouding
and darkening the minds of men,

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the firstborn and first created wisdom of
God, the preexistent word himself,

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induced by his exceeding love for man,
appeared to his servants, now in the form

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of angels, and again to one and another of
those ancients who enjoyed the favor of

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God, in his own person as the saving power
of God, not otherwise, however,

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than in the shape of man, because it was
impossible to appear in any other way.

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And as by them the seeds of piety were
sown among a multitude of men and the

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whole nation, descended from the Hebrews,
devoted themselves persistently to the

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worship of God, he imparted to them
through the prophet Moses, as to

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multitudes still corrupted by their
ancient practices, images and symbols of a

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certain mystic sabbath and of
circumcision, and elements of other

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spiritual principles, but he did not grant
them a complete knowledge of the mysteries

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themselves.

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But when their law became celebrated,
and like a sweet odor was diffused among

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all men, as a result of their influence
the dispositions of the majority of the

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heathen were softened by the lawgivers and
philosophers who arose on every side,

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and their wild and savage brutality was
changed into mildness, so that they

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enjoyed deep peace, friendship,
and social intercourse.

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Then, finally, at the time of the origin
of the Roman Empire, there appeared again

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to all men and nations throughout the
world, who had been, as it were,

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previously assisted, and were now fitted
to receive the knowledge of the Father,

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that same teacher of virtue, the minister
of the Father in all good things,

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the divine and heavenly Word of God,
in a human body not at all differing in

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substance from our own.

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He did and suffered the things which had
been prophesied, for it had been foretold

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that one who was at the same time man and
God should come and dwell in the world,

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should perform wonderful works,
and should show himself a teacher to all

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nations of the piety of the Father.

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The marvelous nature of his birth and his
new teaching and his wonderful works had

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also been foretold.

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So, likewise, the manner of his death,
his resurrection from the dead,

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and finally, his divine ascension into
heaven.

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For instance, Daniel the prophet,
under the influence of the divine Spirit,

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seeing his kingdom at the end of time,
was inspired thus to describe the divine

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vision in language fitted to human
comprehension.

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For I beheld, he says, until thrones were
placed, and the Ancient of Days did sit,

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whose garment was white as snow,
and the hair of his head like pure wool.

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His throne was a flame of fire and his
wheels burning fire.

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A river of fire flowed before him.

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Thousand thousands ministered unto him,
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood

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before him.

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He appointed judgment, and the books were
opened.

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And again, I saw, says he, and behold,
one like the Son of Man came with the

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clouds of heaven, and he hastened unto the
Ancient of Days and was brought into his

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presence.

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And there was given him the dominion and
the glory and the kingdom.

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And all peoples, tribes, and tongues serve
him.

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His dominion is an everlasting dominion
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom

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shall not be destroyed.

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It is clear that these words can refer to
no one else than to our Savior,

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the God Word, who was in the beginning
with God, and who was called the Son of

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Man because of his final appearance in the
flesh.

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But since we have collected in separate
books the selections from the prophets

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which relate to our Savior, Jesus Christ,
and have arranged in a more logical form

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those things which have been revealed
concerning him, what has been said will

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suffice for the present.

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Chapter 3.

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The name Jesus and also the name Christ
were known from the beginning,

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and were honored by the inspired prophets.

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It is now the proper place to show that
the very name Jesus and also the name

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Christ were honored by the ancient
prophets beloved of God.

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Moses was the first to make known the name
of Christ as a name especially august and

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glorious.

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When he delivered types and symbols of
heavenly things and mysterious images in

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accordance with the oracle which said to
him, look that thou make all things

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according to the pattern which was shown
thee in the mount, he consecrated a man,

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high priest of God, insofar as that was
possible, and him he called Christ.

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And thus to this dignity of the high
priesthood, which in his opinion surpassed

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the most honorable position among men,
he attached for the sake of honor and

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glory the name of Christ.

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He knew so well that in Christ was
something divine, and the same one

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foreseeing, under the influence of the
divine spirit, the name Jesus,

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dignified it also with a certain
distinguished privilege.

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For the name of Jesus, which had never
been uttered among men before the time of

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Moses, he applied first and only to the
one who he knew would receive after his

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death again as a type and symbol,
the supreme command.

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His successor, therefore, who had not
hitherto borne the name Jesus,

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but had been called by another name,
Osses, which had been given him by his

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parents, he now called Jesus, bestowing
the name upon him as a gift of honor,

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far greater than any kingly diadem.

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For Jesus himself, the son of Nave,
bore a resemblance to our Savior in the

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fact that he alone, after Moses and after
the completion of the symbolical worship

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which had been transmitted by him,
succeeded to the government of the true

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and pure religion.

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Thus Moses bestowed the name of our
Savior, Jesus Christ, as a mark of the

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highest honor, upon the two men who in his
time surpassed all the rest of the people

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in virtue and glory, namely, upon the high
priest and upon his own successor in the

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government.

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And the prophets that came after also
clearly foretold Christ by name,

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predicting at the same time the plots
which the Jewish people would form against

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him, and the calling of the nations
through him.

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Jeremiah, for instance, speaks as follows,
The spirit before our face, Christ the

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Lord, was taken in their destructions,
of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall

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live among the nations.

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And David, in perplexity, says,
Why did the nations rage, and the people

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imagine vain things?

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The kings of the earth set themselves in
array, and the rulers were gathered

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together against the Lord and against his
Christ.

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To which he adds, in the person of Christ
himself, The Lord said unto me,

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Thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee.

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Ask of me, and I will give thee the
nations for thine inheritance,

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and the uttermost parts of the earth for
thy possession.

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And not only those who were honored with
the high priesthood, and who for the sake

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of the symbol were anointed with a
specially prepared oil, were adorned with

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the name of Christ among the Hebrews,
but also the kings whom the prophets

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anointed under the influence of the divine
spirit, and thus constituted, as it were,

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typical Christs.

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For they also bore in their own persons
types of the royal and sovereign power of

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the true and only Christ, the divine word
who ruleth over all.

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And we have been told also that certain of
the prophets themselves became,

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by the act of anointing, Christs in type,
so that all these have reference to the

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true Christ, the divinely inspired and
heavenly word, who is the only high priest

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of all, and the only king of every
creature, and the father's only supreme

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prophet of prophets.

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And the proof of this is that no one of
those who were of old symbolically

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anointed, whether priests or kings or
prophets, possessed so great a power of

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inspired virtue as was exhibited by our
Savior and Lord Jesus, the true and only

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Christ.

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None of them, at least, however superior
in dignity and honor they may have been

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for many generations among their own
people, ever gave to their followers the

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name of Christians from their own typical
name, Christ.

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Neither was divine honor ever rendered to
any one of them by their subjects,

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nor after their death was the disposition
of their followers such that they were

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ready to die for the one whom they
honored.

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And never did so great a commotion arise
among all the nations of the earth in

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respect to any one of that age,
for the mere symbol could not act with

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such power among them as the truth itself,
which was exhibited by our Savior.

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He, although he received no symbols and
types of high priesthood from any one,

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although he was not born of a race of
priests, although he was not elevated to a

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kingdom by military guards, although he
was not a prophet like those of old,

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although he obtained no honor nor
preeminence among the Jews, nevertheless

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was adorned by the Father with all,
if not with the symbols, yet with the

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truth itself.

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And therefore, although he did not possess
like honors with those whom we have

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mentioned, he is called Christ more than
all of them.

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And as himself the true and only Christ of
God, he has filled the whole earth with

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the truly august and sacred name of
Christians, committing to his followers no

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longer types and images, but the uncovered
virtues themselves and a heavenly life in

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the very doctrines of truth.

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And he was not anointed with oil prepared
from material substances, but,

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as befits divinity, with the divine spirit
himself, by participation in the

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unbegotten deity of the Father.

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And this is taught also again by Isaiah,
who exclaims, as if in the person of

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Christ himself, the spirit of the Lord is
upon me, therefore hath he anointed me.

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He hath sent me to preach the gospel to
the poor, to proclaim deliverance to

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captives and recovery of sight to the
blind.

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And not only Isaiah, but also David
addresses him, saying, Thy throne,

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O God, is forever and ever.

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A scepter of equity is the scepter of thy
kingdom.

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Thou hast loved righteousness and hast
hated iniquity.

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Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee
with the oil of gladness above thy

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fellows.

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Here the scripture calls him God in the
first verse, in the second it honors him

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with the royal scepter.

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Then, a little farther on, after the
divine and royal power, it represents him

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in the third place as having become
Christ, being anointed not with oil made

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of material substances, but with the
divine oil of gladness.

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It thus indicates his especial honor,
far superior to and different from that of

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those who, as types, were of old anointed
in a more material way.

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And elsewhere, the same writer speaks of
him as follows.

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The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my
right hand until I make thine enemies thy

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footstool.

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And, out of the womb, before the morning
star, have I begotten thee.

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The Lord hath sworn, and he will not
repent.

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Thou art a priest forever, after the order
of Melchizedek.

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But this Melchizedek is introduced in the
holy scriptures as a priest of the Most

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High God, not consecrated by any anointing
oil, especially prepared, and not even

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belonging by descent to the priesthood of
the Jews.

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Wherefore, after his order, but not after
the order of the others, who received

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symbols and types, was our Savior
proclaimed, with an appeal to an oath,

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Christ and priest.

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History, therefore, does not relate that
he was anointed corporeally by the Jews,

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nor that he belonged to the lineage of
priests, but that he came into existence

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from God Himself before the morning star,
that is, before the organization of the

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world, and that he obtained an immortal
and undecaying priesthood for eternal

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ages.

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But it is a great and convincing proof of
his incorporeal and divine unction that he

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alone of all those who have ever existed
is even to the called Christ by all men

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throughout the world, and is confessed and
witnessed to under this name, and is

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commemorated both by Greeks and
barbarians, and even to this day is

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honored as a king by his followers
throughout the world, and is admired as

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more than a prophet, and is glorified as
the true and only High Priest of God.

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And besides all this, as the preexistent
Word of God, called into being before all

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ages, he has received august honor from
the Father, and is worshipped as God.

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But most wonderful of all is the fact that
we who have consecrated ourselves to him

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honor him not only with our voices and
with the sound of words, but also with

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complete elevation of soul, so that we
choose to give testimony unto him rather

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than to preserve our own lives.

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I have of necessity prefaced my history
with these matters in order that no one,

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judging from the date of his incarnation,
may think that our Savior and Lord Jesus,

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the Christ, has but recently come into
being.

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End of Book 1, Part 1