Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:15 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.16 For no where doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.17 Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.18 For in that, wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted, he is able to succour them also that are tempted.
That Lord, I say, who in His simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and of the virgin's womb became ineffably incarnate; that Lord, who was partaker of nothing else save the lump of Adam, who was by the serpent tripped up. For the Lord laid not hold of the seed of angels
Alleluia. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles.2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant; ye sons of Jacob his chosen.7 He is the Lord our God: his judgments are in all the earth.8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever: the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.9 Which he made to Abraham; and his oath to Isaac:
In Psalm 104 [LXX], David, when referring to the stories of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the very men who were his godly ancestors, who lived before Moses' day, calls them Christs, only because they all received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And when he tells how they were hospitably received by foreigners, and how they learned that God was their Savior when plots were devised against them, following Moses' account, he names them prophets also and Christs, before Moses had been born and before he had laid down the rule that such men should be anointed with oil.
And immediately going out of the synagogue they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.30 And Simon’s wife’s mother lay in a fit of a fever: and forthwith they tell him of her.31 And coming to her, he lifted her up, taking her by the hand; and immediately the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.32 And when it was evening, after sunset, they brought to him all that were ill and that were possessed with devils.33 And all the city was gathered together at the door.34 And he healed many that were troubled with divers diseases; and he cast out many devils, and he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him.35 And rising very early, going out, he went into a desert place: and there he prayed.36 And Simon, and they that were with him, followed after him.†37 And when they had found him, they said to him: All seek for thee.38 And he saith to them: Let us go into the neighbouring towns and cities, that I may preach there also; for to this purpose am I come.39 And he was preaching in their synagogues, and in all Galilee, and casting out devils.
(de Cons. Evan. ii. 19) But by this preaching, which, he says, He continued in all Galilee, is also meant the sermon of the Lord delivered on the mount, which Matthew mentions, and Mark has entirely passed over, without giving any thing like it, save that he has repeated some sentences not in continuous order, but in scattered places, spoken by the Lord at other times.
About CSB. A personal translation of the New Testament, rendered directly from the public-domain Greek in a literary style — not a scholarly critical edition, and not for liturgical or doctrinal authority. It is one reader's work, offered for enjoyment; where it matters, weigh it against an established translation. (Placeholder text — final wording to come.)