Ps. li. 4 (Prayer-book).
Editorial footnote · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II., editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source
Search a Bible verse · Source library · Sources and text rights
Exposition of the Christian Faith — Historical footnotes
Chapter II.
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Augustus Henry Eugene de Romestin, Eugene de Romestin (assistant), Henry Thomas Forbes Duckworth (assistant).
Read the original source · Text reuse terms
Read the surrounding source paragraph
20. Howbeit, I would not that the Son should rely on the mere prerogative of His nature and the claims of peculiar rights of His Majesty. Let us not call Him good, if He merit not the title; and if He merit not this by works, by acts of lovingkindness, let Him waive the right He enjoys by virtue of His nature, and be submitted to our judgment. He Who is to judge us disdains not to be brought to judgment, that He may be “justified in His saying, and clear when He is judged.”
“Hath shown me good things.”—Ps. xiii. 6. For the passage of the Red Sea, vide Ex. xiv.
Editorial footnote · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II., editorial note cite_note-2 · Original source
Read the surrounding source paragraph
21. Is He then not good, Who hath shown me good things? Is He not good, Who when six hundred thousand of the people of the Jews fled before their pursuers, suddenly opened the tide of the Red Sea, an unbroken mass of waters?—so that the waves flowed round the faithful, and were walls to them, but poured back and overwhelmed the unbelievers.
Ex. xvii. 6: Num. xx. 8, 11.
Editorial footnote · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II., editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source
Read the surrounding source paragraph
22. Is He not good, at Whose command the seas became firm ground for the feet of them that fled, and the rocks gave forth water for the thirsty? so that the handiwork of the true Creator might be known, when the fluid became solid, and the rock streamed with water? That we might acknowledge this as the handiwork of Christ, the Apostle said: “And that rock was Christ.”
Ps. cxviii. 1; cxxxvi. 1; cvi. 1; cvii. 1.
Editorial footnote · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II., editorial note cite_note-11 · Original source
Read the surrounding source paragraph
27. It concerns my interest to believe Him to be good, for “It is a good thing to trust in the Lord.” It is to my interest to confess Him Lord, for it is written: “Give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good.”
St. Ambrose’s syllogism appears to be: The Judge is the righteous God, the Son of God is the Judge; therefore, the Son of God is the righteous God.
Editorial footnote · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II., editorial note cite_note-12 · Original source
Read the surrounding source paragraph
28. It is to my interest to esteem my Judge to be good, for the Lord is a righteous Judge to the house of Israel. If, then, the Son of God is Judge, surely, seeing that the Judge is the righteous God and the Son of God is Judge, [it follows that] He who is Judge and Son of God is the righteous God.
Song of Solomon i. 1.
Editorial footnote · Exposition of the Christian Faith, Chapter II., editorial note cite_note-16 · Original source
Read the surrounding source paragraph
32. But why do we doubt? The Church hath believed in His goodness all these ages, and hath confessed its faith in the saying: “Let Him kiss me with the kisses of His mouth; for thy breasts are better than wine;” and again: “And thy throat is like the goodliest wine.” Of His goodness, therefore, He nourisheth us with the breasts of the Law and Grace, soothing men’s sorrows with telling them of heavenly things; and do we, then, deny His goodness, when He is the manifestation of goodness, expressing in His Person the likeness of the Eternal Bounty, even as we showed above that it was written, that He is the spotless reflection and counterpart of that Bounty?