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114 Credibilily of the Gospel History.
confirmed, they endured bonds and imprisonments for the
name of the Lord, and triumphed over the powers of the
world, and over all torments.' I place in the margin*
another passage, in which he quotes the words of Joel
which are also alleged by St. Peter, Acts ii. 16, 17. See
Joel ii. 28.
6. I proceed to St. Paul's epistles.
1. The epistle to the Romans is often quoted as St. Paul's
by this presbyter of the church of Rome, who was also afterwards
chosen bishop by a part of the same church. 'The^ apostle
Paul writes in his epistle: " Whose," says he, " are the
fathers, ofwhom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over
all, God blessed for ever," Rom. ix. 5. In the epistle penned
by Novatus, sent to Cyprian by the presbyters and deacons
of the church of Rome in 250, it is said :
apostle had not so commended us, saying :
' Otherwise s the
" That your faith
is spoken of throughout the whole world," ' Rom. i. 8.
2. ' Lastly,'' the apostle Paul knew this harmony and unity,
with a distinction of persons ; for, writing to the Corinthians,
'' I," says he, " have planted, iVpollos w atered, but God gave
the increase :" ' intending 1 Cor. iii. 6, 7, 8.
3. ' Lastly' the apostle Paul : " Having," says he, " the
same spirit, as it is written, I believed, therefore have I
spoken : we also believe, and therefore speak," ' 2 Cor. iv.
13.
4. ' And'' in another place [the apostle Paul :]| " Now a
mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one," ' Gal. iii.
20. Words of this epistle are several times cited by this
writer as the apostle Paul's.
5. ' Of Avhom the apostle Paul : " He that descended is
the same that ascended above all heavens, that he might fill
all things," Eph. iv. 10.
6. ' But"" why should we pass by that place in the apostle?
^ Est eaim per Joeleni prophetam repromissus, sed per Christum redditus :
In novissimis, inquit, diebus effuudam de Spiritu meo super servos et ancillas
meas. lb. p. 218. ' Quod si et apostolus Paulus, Quorum,
inquit, patres, et ex quibus Christus secundum camera, qui est super omnia
Deus benedictus in secula, in suis Uteris scribit. cap. 13. p. 99.
s Quoniam nee tantas de nobis laudes apostolus protulisset, dicendo : Quia
fides vestra prtedicatur in toto mundo, p. 289. "^ Denique novit hanc
concordiae unitatem, cum personarum tamen distinctione. Nam, cum ad
Corinthios scriberet. Ego, inquit, plantavi, &c. de Reg. Fid. cap. 27. [al. 22.]
' Denique apostolus Paulus, Habentes, inquit, eumdum spiritum. cap. 29. p.
219. '^ Et alio in loco: Mediator autem unius non est, Deus
autem unus est. cap. 30. p. 230. ' De quo apostolus Paulus:
Qui descendit, ipse est qui ascendit super omnes coelos. cap. 17. [al. 25.] p. 134.
" Cur autem—ilium prsetereamus apud apostolorum locum ? Qui cum in
forma Dei esset, non rapinam arbitratus est gequalem se Deo esse. De Reg. Fid.
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