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, like the other apostles and Cephas? "But when he subjoins those (expressions)which show his abstinence from (insisting on) the supply of maintenance, saying, "For have we not the power of eating and drinking? "he does not demonstrate that "wives" were led about by the apostles, whom even such as have not still have the power of eating and drinking; but simply "women," who used to minister to them in the stone way (as they did) when accompanying the Lord.[67]

the fruits [of the earth], how the sowing of grain takes place. The sower[121]

And some fell by the wayside, and was trodden down; and some on the rocky places, and sprang up," he says, "and on account of its having no depth (of soil), it withered and died; and some," he says, "fell on fair and good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty fold. Who hath ears," he says, "to hear, let him hear."[101]

And these (heretics) suppose that this is what is spoken by the Saviour: "A sower went forth to sow; and that which fell on the fair and good ground produced, some a hundred-fold, and some sixty-fold, and some thirty-fold."[10]

Then Peter said: "If I were asked to speak of these things only on your account, who come only for the purpose of contradicting, you should never hear a single discourse from me; but seeing it is necessary that the husbandman, wishing to sow good ground, should sow some seeds, either in stony places, or places that are to be trodden of men, or in places filled with brambles and briers (as our Master also set forth, indicating by these the diversities of the purposes of several souls),[6]

-which now claims notice as having furnished to Christ that frequent form of His earnest instruction: "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."[707]

These things the Saviour Himself seals when He says: "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven."[148]

His words are: "That seeing they might not see; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest they should be converted, and their sins be forgiven them."[72]

Even as beautiful vines, when they are neglected, are withered up by thorns and divers plants, so men who have believed, and have afterwards fallen away into many of those actions above mentioned, go astray in their minds, and lose all understanding in regard to righteousness; for if they hear of righteousness, their minds are occupied with their business,[2]

" There are those who still have thorns with which they crown and dishonour Jesus, those, namely, who are choked by the cares, and riches, and pleasures of life, and though they have received the word of God, do not bring it to perfection.[63]

Now, for whatever reason He threatens the "deprivation," it will not be the work of a god who knows not how to threaten, because incapable of anger. I am, moreover, astonished when he says that "a candle is not usually hidden,"[712]

if we do not shine in (the midst of) darkness, and stand eminent amid them who are sunk down? If you hide your lamp beneath a bushel,[133]

And if one say that it is written, "There is nothing secret which shall not be revealed, nor hidden which shall not be disclosed,"[32]

who had hidden himself-a greater and more needful light-during so long a time; and when he promises that "everything shall be brought out of its secrecy and made manifest,"[713]

For who will grant to you, a man of so faithless repentance, one single sprinkling of any water whatever? To approach it by stealth, indeed, and to get the minister appointed over this business misled by your asseverations, is easy; but God takes foresight for His own treasure, and suffers not the unworthy to steal a march upon it. What, in fact, does He say? "Nothing hid which shall not be revealed."[52]

not only bestows honour, but also takes away what a man seems to have.[1495]

For to him who is worthy to know, is due that which he does not know; but from him who is not worthy, even should he seem to have any thing it is taken away,[23]

And how else could they have said that His mother and His brethren were standing without?[147]

Now He had in precisely similar terms rejected His mother or His brethren, whilst preferring those who heard and obeyed God.[1090]

The transaction about the swine, which were driven down a steep place by the demons and drowned in the sea, is said to have taken place in the country of the Gerasenes.[118]

For with the last enemy death did He fight, and through the trophy of the cross He triumphed. Now of what God did the Legion testify that Jesus was the Son?[748]

they heard that the demons had been put to flight; the sick restored to health[32]

,[745]

he handed himself over to the prince of this age. He set him over "swine," to feed that flock familiar to demons,[111]

They maintain, further, that that girl of twelve years old, the daughter of the ruler of the synagogue,[97]

Allow me some indulgence in my effort against the heretic. Jesus is touched by the woman who had an issue of blood,[756]

, but only the hem of His garment, with a view to her cure.[161]

And to Peter, when he began to sink, it was said, "O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? "[131]

And according to the law of Moses it is written about certain things, "Ye shall cast them to the dogs,"[186]

When Christ approved of the faith of this woman, which simply rested in the Creator, He declared by His answer to her,[770]

and the father and mother of the maiden."[191]