Theological Theses · §2009 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

New Testament: Tyre and Sidon would have repented (Matthew 11:21); Paul told to leave Jerusalem (Acts 22:18)

From the New Testament they make much of Christ's words in Matthew 11:21: 'Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.' Here Christ declares that the people of Tyre and Sidon would have repented if God had used the same means with them that he used with the Jews. So God had known from eternity that their repentance would have occurred under that condition.

They also lay weight on the passage where the Lord, in a trance of Paul's, tells him to leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people there would not accept his testimony about him. God foresaw that if Paul preached Christ to the Jews, they would not believe his testimony (Acts 22:18).

Latin

XIV. Ex novo quoque Testamento multum urgent Christi verba quae habentur Matth. 11. 21. Vae tibi Corazaim, vae tibi Bethsaida: quia si in Tyro & Sidone factae essent virtutes quae factae sunt in vobis, olim sacco & cinere poenitentiam egissent. Ubi affirmat Christus poenitentiam acturos fuisse Tyrios & Sidonios, si eadem media Deus erga illos adhibuisset, quibus erga Judaeos usus est. Adeoque Deus, illorum poenitentiam sub ista conditione futuram fuisse ab aeterno noverat. Ac vim quoque faciunt in eo quod Dominus in quodam Pauli raptu jubet eum ocyus Hierosolymis exire, propterea quod non essent testimonium de ipso suscepturi. Nempe praevidebat Deus, quod si Christum Paulus Judaeis praedicaret, non essent fidem ejus testimonio habituri, Act. 22. 18.

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