The Lantern

Apocriticus · English Translation3

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BOOK III. These words are contained in the Third Book of the words of Answer to the Greeks .

Proem (Introduction to seven attacks by the Philosopher) 51

The Christian (Introduction to his seven answers) 51

Chs. i. and viii. How Jesus endured to be crucified with insult 52

Chs. ii. and ix. How it is said : If it be possible, let the cup pass 57

Chs. iii. and x. How it is said : If ye believe Moses, ye would believe me 60

Chs. iv. and xi. What is the meaning of the swine and the demons ? 62

Chs. v. and xii. What is the meaning of the saying : It is easier for a camel to go through a needle, than a rich man into the kingdom of God ? 69

Chs. vi. and xiii. How it is said : About the fourth watch of the night He came upon the sea 73

Chs. vii. and xiv. What is the meaning of: The poor ye have always, but me ye have not always ? 76

The Greek (Introduction to the next eight attacks) 78

Chs. xv. and xxiii. (With the Christian's Introduction to his eight answers.)

What is the meaning of: Except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood, ye have no life in you ? 78

Chs. xvi. and xxiv. How it is said : And if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them 85

Chs. xvii. and xxv. What is the meaning of the grain of mustard seed ? 88

Chs. xviii. and xxvi. How it is said : Cast thyself down 89

Chs. xix. xx. and xxvii. What is the meaning of: Get thee behind me, Satan ; and the address to Peter? What is the meaning of the seventy times seven ? 91

(The beginning of another proposition from the Acts of the Apostles.)

Chs. xxi. and xxviii. How Peter killed Ananias and Sapphira 95

Chs. xxii. and xxix. How Peter went forth when the prison was shut 97

Chs. xxx, and xxxvii. (With brief introductions to the next six questions and answers by the Greek and the Christian.) How Paul circumcised Timothy 99

Chs. xxxi. and xxxviii. How Paul says he is a Roman, though he was not a Roman 102

Chs. xxxii. and xxxix. How it is said : No one goeth a warfare at his own charges 103

Chs. xxxiii. and xl. How it is said: He is a debtor to do the whole law 105

Chs. xxxiv. and xli. How it is said : The law entered, that the transgression might abound 107

Chs. xxxv. and xlii. How it is said: I would not that ye should become partakers of demons 108

Chs. xxxvi. and xliii. How it is said: In the latter times some shall depart from the faith 113