Cyprian

Footnotes

^[3996] Isa. vii. 10-15. The ordinary reading here is, “before He knows, to refuse the evil and to choose the good.” The reading in the text, however, is more authentic.

^[3997] Gen. iii. 14, 15.

10. That Christ is both man and God, compounded of both natures, that He might be a Mediator between us and the Father.

^[3998] Jer. xvii. 9.

^[3999] Num. xxiv. 17.

^[4000] [Here the English (q. v.) gives the more literal reading, which the Septuagint treats as a proverb, unfolding its sense. “Water from the bucket” seems to have signified the same as our low proverb “a chip from the block,” hence = a Son from the Father. Num. xxiv. 7.]

^[4001] The Oxford translator follows the English version, and reads, “over Agag.”

^[4002] Num. xxiv. 7-9.

^[4003] Isa. lxi. 1, 2.

^[4004] Luke i. 35.

^[4005] “Limo.”

^[4006] 1 Cor. xv. 47-49.

11. That Christ was to be born of the seed of David, according to the flesh.

^[4007] 2 Sam. vii. 5, 12-16.

^[4008] Isa. xi. 1-3.

^[4009] Ps. cxxxii. 11.

^[4010] Luke i. 30-33.

^[4011] Rev. v. 1-5.