were an institution of the Law, but only as an observance included in the Law. Hence Our Lord said ( Jn. 7:20 ) that circumcision was "not of Moses, but of his fathers." Again, among those who worshipped God, the priesthood was in existence before the Law by human appointment, fo…

dness of an impenitent heart. For in another place, the Jews said of the Lord, that He had a devil [ John 7:20 ], without however His saying any thing there about the blasphemy against the Spirit; and the reason is, that they did not there cast in His teeth the unclean spirit, in…

m vero humanae naturae mensuram nullatenus ignorans Judaeos alloquitur, nunc «me quaeritis occidere (Joan. VII, 20) ,» hominem qui veritatem locutus sum vobis, item non minus eum qui in similitudinem et aequalitatem Patris est Deum verum etiam in mensuris humanitatis ejus agnosci…