{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030436.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030436.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030436.htm","text":"Chapter XXXVII.\u2014Christ and Zacch\u00e6us. The Salvation of the Body as Denied by Marcion. The Parable of the Ten Servants Entrusted with Ten Pounds. Christ a Judge, Who is to Administer the Will of the Austere Man, I.e. The Creator.\n\u201cSalvation comes to the house\u201d of Zacp. 412 ch\u00e6us even. 4962 For what reason? Was it because he also believed that Christ came by Marcion? But the blind man\u2019s cry was still sounding in the ears of all: \u201cJesus, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.\u201d And \u201call the people gave praise unto God\u201d\u2014not Marcion\u2019s, but David\u2019s. Now, although Zacch\u00e6us was probably a Gentile, 4963 he yet from his intercourse with Jews had obtained a smattering 4964 of their Scriptures, and, more than this, had, without knowing it, fulfilled the precepts of Isaiah: \u201cDeal thy bread,\u201d said the prophet, \u201cto the hungry, and bring the poor that are cast out into thine house.\u201d 4965 This he did in the best possible way, by receiving the Lord, and entertaining Him in his house. \u201cWhen thou seest the naked cover him.\u201d 4966 This he promised to do, in an equally satisfactory way, when he offered the half of his goods for all works of mercy. 4967 So also \u201che loosened the bands of wickedness, undid the heavy burdens, let the oppressed go free, and broke every yoke,\u201d 4968 when he said, \u201cIf I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.\u201d 4969 Therefore the Lord said, \u201cThis day is salvation come to this house.\u201d 4970 Thus did He give His testimony, that the precepts of the Creator spoken by the prophet tended to salvation. 4971 But when He adds, \u201cFor the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost,\u201d 4972 my present contention is not whether He was come to save what was lost, to whom it had once belonged, and from whom what He came to save had fallen away; but I approach a different question. Man, there can be no doubt of it, is here the subject of consideration. Now, since he consists of two parts, 4973 body and soul, the point to be inquired into is, in which of these two man would seem to have been lost? If in his body, then it is his body, not his soul, which is lost. What, however, is lost, the Son of man saves. The body, 4974 therefore, has the salvation. If, (on the other hand,) it is in his soul that man is lost, salvation is designed for the lost soul; and the body which is not lost is safe. If, (to take the only other supposition,) man is wholly lost, in both his natures, then it necessarily follows that salvation is appointed for the entire man; and then the opinion of the heretics is shivered to pieces, 4975 who say that there is no salvation of the flesh. And this affords a confirmation that Christ belongs to the Creator, who followed the Creator in promising the salvation of the whole man. The parable also of the (ten) servants, who received their several recompenses according to the manner in which they had increased their lord\u2019s money by trading 4976 proves Him to be a God of judgment\u2014even a God who, in strict account, 4977 not only bestows honour, but also takes away what a man seems to have. 4978 Else, if it is the Creator whom He has here delineated as the \u201caustere man,\u201d who \u201ctakes up what he laid not down, and reaps what he did not sow,\u201d 4979 my instructor even here is He, (whoever He may be,) to whom belongs the money He teaches me fruitfully to expend. 4980\nThe older reading, which we here follow, is: \u201cEnimvero Zacch\u00e6us etsi allophylus fortasse,\u201d etc. Oehler, however, points the passage thus: \u201cEnimvero Zacch\u00e6us etsi allophylus, fortasse,\u201d etc., removing the doubt, and making Zacch\u00e6us \u201cof another race\u201d than the Jewish, for certain. This is probably more than Tertullian meant to say.\n412:4964 412:4965 412:4966 412:4967\nFor the history of Zacch\u00e6us, see Luke xix. 1-10.\n412:4968 412:4969 412:4970 412:4971 412:4972 412:4973 412:4974\nCaro: \u201cthe flesh,\u201d here a synonym with the corpus of the previous clauses.\n412:4975 412:4976 412:4977 412:4978\nThis phrase comes not from the present passage, but from Luke viii. 18, where the words are \u1f45 \u03b4\u03bf\u03ba\u03b5\u1fd6 \u1f14\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd; here the expression is \u1f45 \u1f14\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9 only.\n412:4979 412:4980\nThe original of this obscure sentence is as follows: \u201cAut si et hic Creatorem finxerit austerum\u2026..hic quoque me ille instruit eujus pecuniam ut fenerem edocet.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: Christ...","type":"page"}