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1 44 | about their avoiding and abhorring the same. (He and His apostles,
2 34 | condemnation, by reason of the above-mentioned definition, of lateness
3 8 | that is to say, "the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob."
4 30 | excommunication, they scattered abroad the poisons of their doctrines.
5 29 | as long as there was an absence of heresies? Truth had to
6 25 | have called them, as being absent, those things, not these
7 38 | subject-matter. Valentinus, however, abstained from such excision, because
8 30 | out of sight of his most abstemious master. Returning therefrom,
9 29 | likeness succeeds the reality. Absurd enough, however, is it,
10 17 | FACT, DO NOT USE BUT ONLY ABUSE, SCRIPTURE. NO COMMON GROUND
11 7 | concord is there between the Academy and the Church? what between
12 42 | is, that they more easily accomplish the ruin of standing houses
13 17 | and diminutions, for the accomplishment of it own purpose; and such
14 26 | without respect to persons, in accordance with the Lord's saying, "
15 32 | the same faith, they are accounted as not less apostolic because
16 38 | doctrine could not have accrued, without integrity in those
17 30 | Christ); for thus, too, is He accustomed to make His apostles--to
18 36 | each of them severally. Achaia is very near you, (in which)
19 30 | different expositions and acknowledged emendations, makes these
20 42 | progress of the matter is an acknowledgment at once of its character
21 14 | some one of your close acquaintance who is curious like yourself;
22 7 | its philosophers) become acquainted with that human wisdom which
23 11 | indeed to err it is itself an act of delinquency. With impunity,
24 38 | own subject-matter, but adapted his matter to the Scriptures;
25 40 | upon, and succeeded in, adapting to his profane and rival
26 38 | every particular word, and adding fantastic arrangements of
27 34 | until Marcion introduced, in addition to the Creator, another
28 44 | existing among us, are an additional proof of truth, from which
29 17 | it perverts by means of additions and diminutions, for the
30 15 | preparing in the preamble of our address (which we have just completed),--
31 5 | are evils, he immediately adds heresies likewise. Now,
32 8 | heretics). Our brethren adduce it as a pretext for entering
33 4 | TESTAMENT. SUNDRY PASSAGES ADDUCED. THESE IMPLY THE POSSIBILITY
34 42 | ELEVATE. HERETICS DO NOT ADHERE EVEN TO THEIR OWN TRADITIONS,
35 18 | not knowing which side to adjudge heretical. For, no doubt,
36 37 | order that the truth may be adjudged to belong to us, "as many
37 37 | committed it to a trust, and adjured (the trustees to be faithful
38 41 | ordinations, are carelessly. administered, capricious, changeable.
39 20 | s will was which He was administering, what the duty of man was
40 40 | things of which consists the administration of Christ's sacraments,
41 37 | from the pursuit incur and admit the name of heretics. Thus,
42 36 | discipline thus (maintained) she admits no gainsayer. This is the
43 15 | above ,all others, of not admitting them to any discussion of
44 16 | DISPUTED WITH, BUT TO BE ADMONISHED.~I might be thought to have
45 44 | another and better father has adopted me! I had forbidden you
46 18 | go so far as to say that adulterations of the Scriptures, and false
47 14 | they were in the habit of advancing, then it is high time for
48 15 | contention to which our adversaries challenge us. They put forward
49 23 | presented himself as an adversary to Him They accordingly
50 34 | of the law and of Israel, affirming that he was fire. Valentinus
51 24 | any man, and if any heresy affirms that it does itself follow
52 18 | of strengthening him when afflicted with doubts, (let me ask)
53 1intro| their final cause is, by affording a trial to faith, to give
54 39 | HERETICAL MANIPULATION. AFFORDS MATERIAL FOR HERESIES, JUST
55 26 | am quite sure, were they afraid,--neither of Jews nor of
56 36 | with even (our) churches in Africa! One Lord God does she acknowledge,
57 32 | the midst Of the apostolic age, that they may thereby seem
58 7 | the body is taken from the aggregate school of all the philosophers;
59 30 | those menlived not so long ago,--in the reign of Antoninus
60 42 | innovate on the faith, as was agreeable to their own pleasure. In
61 30 | professed repentance, and agreed to the conditions granted
62 21 | that all doctrine which agrees with the apostolic churches--
63 15 | for at this point we were aiming, and for this we were preparing
64 32 | apostolic because they are akin in doctrine. Then let all
65 4 | and inasmuch as we are not alarmed because they exist, so we
66 30 | a woman, and withdrew to Alexandria, out of sight of his most
67 41 | they hear alike, they pray alike--even heathens, if any such
68 7 | and when any doctrine is alleged touching a god of fire,
69 42 | manner of its birth. That was allowable to the Valentinians which
70 38 | again, or else add to it, or alter it, in order to restore
71 38 | SCRIPTURES, AND MUTILATED, AND ALTERED THEM. CATHOLICS NEVER CHANGE
72 17 | selected, because their ambiguity. Though most skilled in
73 4 | after proving all things amiss, one might not through error
74 14 | not as yet found anything amounting to certainty; and therefore,
75 2 | II. ANALOGY BETWEEN FEVERS AND HERESIES.
76 33 | inculcated the worship of angels, was itself actually reckoned
77 7 | Which he settles with the answer: From enthymesis and ectroma.
78 44 | INTRODUCTION TO CERTAIN OTHER ANTI-HERETICAL WORKS OF OUR AUTHOR.~These
79 4 | perversion of doctrine, than will Antichrist persecute her at that day
80 9 | confidence in our proof, that I anticipate it, in the shape of an admonition
81 4 | heresies, and have given us, in anticipation, warnings to avoid them;
82 30 | long ago,--in the reign of Antoninus for the most part,--and
83 | anyhow
84 33 | God. John, however, in the Apocalypse is charged to chastise those "
85 4 | martyrs, (but) heresy only apostates. And therefore "heresies
86 41 | another, persons who have apostatized from us, to bind them by
87 30 | He accustomed to make His apostles--to give them, (that is),
88 11 | not believed, although I apparently had become a believer, or
89 29 | FREE COURSE BEFORE THEY APPEARED. PRIORITY OF THE CHURCH'
90 40 | idolatry, seeing that they appertain both to the same author
91 8 | BUT AS PRINCIPLES TO BE APPLIED.~I come now to the point
92 5 | TRIALS FOR TRAINING AND APPROVING THE FAITH OF CHRISTIANS.~
93 15 | HERETICS NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO ARGUE OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES. THE
94 36 | Even the rough wild-olive arises from the germ of the fruitful,
95 7 | enthymesis and ectroma. Unhappy Aristotle! who invented for these
96 34 | they were not the same, but arose afterwards in a different
97 38 | word, and adding fantastic arrangements of things which have no
98 38 | necessity of differently arranging the instruments of doctrine.
99 36 | the water (of baptism), arrays with the Holy Ghost, feeds
100 44 | TEACHING ON THIS SOLEMN ARTICLE OF THE FAITH. THE PRESENT
101 39 | These were the ingenious arts of "spiritual wickednesses,"
102 13 | third day; (then) having ascended into the heavens, He sat
103 36 | you are able to cross to Asia, you get Ephesus. Since,
104 44 | which no man can safely turn aside, who bears in mind that
105 28 | by Christ, and for this asked of the Father that He might
106 11 | For to every one that asketh," says He, "it shall be
107 10 | but Apelles, too, will assail me with the same quotation;
108 12 | door that the persevering assailant kept knocking. Nor was it
109 44 | depraved and perverse doctrines assailing them, or about their avoiding
110 33 | opinion did the Valentinians assert of themselves. When again
111 34 | different form, and merely assumed from them certain tenets,
112 22 | the Spirit of truth. And assuredly He fulfilled His promise,
113 1intro| that we ought not to be astonished at the heresies (which abound)
114 28 | great, should have gone astray into one and the same faith?
115 43 | with mountebanks, with astrologers, with philosophers; and
116 4 | day by the cruelty of his attacks, except that persecution
117 22 | had promised the future attainment of all truth by help of
118 7 | of heart." Away with all attempts to produce a mottled Christianity
119 41 | overthrow of discipline, attention to which on our part they
120 36 | places, in which their own authentic writings are read, uttering
121 39 | WICKEDNESSES DISPLAYED BY PAGAN AUTHORS, AND BY HERETICS, IN NO
122 40 | his priestly offices and badges and privileges, his sacrificial
123 30 | into the church, and, when banished at last to a permanent excommunication,
124 36 | seals with the water (of baptism), arrays with the Holy Ghost,
125 8 | the Son of God, and John (Baptist) had actually ceased to
126 40 | sacraments of God. He, too, baptizes some--that is, his own believers
127 20 | utterance; and after first bearing witness to the faith in
128 44 | can safely turn aside, who bears in mind that future judgment,
129 | becomes
130 | beforehand
131 8 | account of their sins, they began to be without God. The Gentiles,
132 33 | while these again afterwards beget Man and the Church. From
133 | begin
134 27 | how the epistle actually begins: "I marvel that ye are so
135 7 | he says, "See that no one beguile you through philosophy and
136 | behind
137 3 | at the heart." "The Lord (beholdeth and) knoweth them that are
138 9 | anything beyond what they have believed--that this is what they ought
139 15 | be clearly seen to whom belongs the possession of the Scriptures,
140 22 | from John, the Lord's most beloved disciple, who used to lean
141 44 | faith from the danger which besets it. On the present occasion,
142 26 | themselves, in their epistles, besought men that they would all
143 2 | than wonder at, and to the best of our power guard against,
144 14 | for a while to hold, they betray their own scepticism, whilst
145 3 | deserted His apostle: the betrayer of Christ was himself one
146 27 | foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you?" and, "Ye did run so
147 41 | apostatized from us, to bind them by vainglory, since
148 22 | the power of "loosing and binding in heaven and on earth?"
149 42 | and of the manner of its birth. That was allowable to the
150 32 | unfold the roll of their bishops, running down in due succession
151 5 | CHRISTIANS.~Moreover, when he blames dissensions and schisms,
152 42 | show themselves humble and bland and respectful. Otherwise
153 44 | but in this I erred! Such (blasphemies), it is possible, do enter
154 3 | much as it will at every blast of temptation, all the purer
155 30 | under the episcopate of the blessed Eleutherus, until on account
156 14 | be "led, blindly by the blind, down into the ditch." But
157 14 | waverers, must needs be "led, blindly by the blind, down into
158 36 | doctrine along with their blood! where Peter endures a passion
159 33 | apostle) directs a similar blow against those who said that "
160 24 | ADD TO THE FAITH. HERETICS BOAST AS IF FAVOURED WITH SOME
161 36 | first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence remitted
162 35 | definitions, let all the heresies boldly on their part also advance
163 20 | title of brotherhood, and bond of hospitality,--privileges
164 10 | for you this limit. This boundary has He set for you Himself,
165 12 | What soldier expects to get bounty and pay from kings who are
166 2 | in faith. In a combat of boxers and gladiators, generally
167 16 | either the stomach or the brain.~
168 23 | TEACHING.~Now, with the view of branding the apostles with some mark
169 22 | who used to lean on His breast to whom alone the Lord pointed
170 17 | will lose nothing but your breath, and gain nothing but vexation
171 23 | brethren to brethren, by brethren--to them, indeed, by men
172 24 | question for the set purpose of bringing the earlier doctrine into
173 41 | which on our part they call brothelry. Peace also they huddle
174 14 | no doubt, some learned brother gifted with the grace of
175 20 | communion, and title of brotherhood, and bond of hospitality,--
176 8 | were only as "a drop from a bucket," and "as dust from the
177 26 | usually "pushed away under a bushel, but placed on a candlestick,"
178 41 | promotion easier than in the camp of rebels, where the mere
179 7 | words which spread like a cancer?" From all these, when the
180 26 | Himself to tell them that a candle was not usually "pushed
181 26 | bushel, but placed on a candlestick," in order to "give light
182 4 | to wonder that they are capable of doing that, on account
183 41 | carelessly. administered, capricious, changeable. At one time
184 29 | TRUTH NOT INDEBTED TO THE CARE OF THE HERETICS; IT HAD
185 43 | diligence, as well as an anxious carefulness and a well-considered admission (
186 41 | Their ordinations, are carelessly. administered, capricious,
187 27 | Corinthians, that they "were yet carnal," who "required to be fed
188 24 | Now, although Paul was carried away even to the third heaven,
189 3 | shows, "be last;" and He carries "His fan in His hand to
190 28 | one and the same faith? No casualty distributed among many men
191 41 | it is doubtful who is a catechumen, and who a believer; they
192 41 | offer you knowledge. Their catechumens are perfect before they
193 44 | as apostles. As if this caution were not also in the written
194 24 | inasmuch as our very perverse cavillers obtrude the rebuke in question
195 39 | the same poet The Table of Cebes. On the same principle,
196 40 | foreheads of his soldiers; celebrates also the oblation of bread,
197 24 | e.g.) as if Peter too had censured Paul, because, whilst for-bidding
198 14 | found anything amounting to certainty; and therefore, whatever
199 3 | threshing-floor." Let the chaff of a fickle faith fly off
200 38 | ALTERED THEM. CATHOLICS NEVER CHANGE THE SCRIPTURES, WHICH ALWAYS
201 41 | administered, capricious, changeable. At one time they put novices
202 25 | secret as to be supposed to characterize a new doctrine? or is it
203 9 | has been taught by Him who charges you to seek no other thing
204 33 | Apocalypse is charged to chastise those "who eat things sacrificed
205 5 | maintenance of unity and the checking of divisions, inasmuch as
206 36 | feeds with the Eucharist, cheers with martyrdom, and against
207 8 | He "cast to the dogs the children's bread;" not yet did He
208 7 | called "foolishness," and "chose the foolish things of the
209 7 | attempts to produce a mottled Christianity of Stoic, Platonic, and
210 29 | itself writes to its own church--"Though an angel from heaven
211 21 | agrees with the apostolic churches--those moulds and original
212 24 | circumcision, he actually circumcised Timothy himself. Never mind
213 41 | conspire together to storm the citadel of the one only Truth. All
214 20 | rounded churches in every city, from which all the other
215 14 | some one of the experienced class, some one of your close
216 20 | to its original for its classification. Therefore the churches,
217 30 | longer a Marcionite, he clave to another woman, the maiden
218 32 | church of Rome, which makes Clement to have been ordained in
219 39 | called Homerocentones, "collectors of Homeric odds and ends,"
220 7 | against. Writing to the Colossians, he says, "See that no one
221 2 | not strong in faith. In a combat of boxers and gladiators,
222 41 | huddle up anyhow with all comers; for it matters not to them,
223 26 | whatsoever is more than this cometh of evil;" so that they were
224 8 | NOT INDEED AS SPECIFIC COMMANDS, BUT AS PRINCIPLES TO BE
225 14 | they patronize, when they commend it to us with a lie? Well,
226 22 | as the traitor, whom He commended to Mary as a son in His
227 6 | is such is perverted, and committeth sin, as a self-condemned
228 26 | anything for the purpose of committing it separately to some few
229 39 | principle, those poetasters are commonly called Homerocentones, "
230 24 | was such as to render them communicable to no human being. If, however,
231 3 | also would go away. It is a comparatively small thing, that certain
232 33 | having no beginning, and then compares it with God, who has no
233 42 | which they catch at, to compass the fall of those who stand,
234 33 | their wonderful names, to complete the mere story of the thirty
235 15 | address (which we have just completed),--so that we may now join
236 39 | Hosidius Geta has most completely pilfered his tragedy of
237 10 | in believing? where the completion in finding? (Shall it be)
238 7 | Platonic, and dialectic composition! We want no curious disputation
239 20 | are so many and so great, comprise but the one primitive church, (
240 10 | reason of this saying is comprised in three points: in the
241 22 | earth?" Was anything, again, concealed from John, the Lord's most
242 26 | they fulfilled them not, by concealing any portion of the light,
243 40 | aim of expressing, in the concerns of his idolatry, those very
244 8 | makes towards the the same conclusion. If the apostles, who were
245 7 | do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy
246 35 | which they refrain from condemning, when they have condemned
247 6 | false doctrines, he sharply condemns heresies. Of these the practical
248 30 | repentance, and agreed to the conditions granted to him--that he
249 5 | evil things, he of course confesses to be itself an evil; and
250 25 | Christ who witnessed a good confession under Pontius Pilate, that
251 18 | standing he will go away confirmed in his uncertainty by the
252 24 | themselves to pursue, in like conformity to times and persons and
253 7 | things of the world" to confound even philosophy itself.
254 39 | from that (in miscellaneous confusion). Now, unquestionably, the
255 7 | propositions, so far-fetched in its conjectures, so harsh, in its arguments,
256 2 | strength; and indeed this very conqueror, when afterwards matched
257 44 | was my pleasure to make considerable changes in it! I had promised
258 30 | life from the dead, these consign men to death from their
259 41 | Simplicity they will have to consist in the overthrow of discipline,
260 31 | heresies, which have no consistent quality of kindred knowledge
261 9 | determine the sense of the words consistently with (that reason), which
262 16 | new-fangled statements, or to consort with a heretic "after the
263 41 | provided only they can conspire together to storm the citadel
264 3 | SAUL, DAVID, SOLOMON.THE CONSTANCY OF CHRIST.~It is usual,
265 8 | they therefore did not constitute instruction properly designed
266 23 | that they may from this construct that other position of theirs,
267 25 | to teach others also," be construed into a proof of there being
268 2 | there it is, or that it consumes man, for that is the purpose
269 38 | which is contrary to it, and contained in the Scriptures? What
270 21 | for truth, as undoubtedly containing that which the (said) churches
271 35 | later than the apostles or contemporary with the apostles, provided
272 9 | DISCOVERED THIS, WE SHOULD BE CONTENT.~I now purposely relinquish
273 15 | may now join issue on the contention to which our adversaries
274 7 | arguments, so productive of contentions--embarrassing even to itself,
275 25 | preceding and the succeeding contexts, it will be manifest that
276 14 | scepticism, whilst they continue seeking. You therefore,
277 25 | not any (doctrines) which contradicted one another, but at the
278 39 | facility. Nor do I risk contradiction in saying that the very
279 4 | for heresy; although they contrariously interpret his words to their
280 32 | apostolic seed. Let the heretics contrive something of the same kind.
281 23 | the fact is, having been converted from a persecutor to a preacher,
282 30 | their own works they are convicted, even as the Lord said.
283 18 | DISCUSSION OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES. CONVICTION NEVER COMES TO THE HERETIC
284 29 | cases truth precedes its copy, the likeness succeeds the
285 36 | you, (in which) you find Corinth. Since you are not far from
286 3 | purer will be that heap of corn which shall be laid up in
287 16 | Christian, seem to require correction again and again, and "before
288 40 | THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES CORRUPTED BY HIM IN THE PERVERSIONS
289 30 | of the documents. These corrupters of the truth we mention
290 7 | the truth, whilst it only corrupts it, and is itself divided
291 6 | Epistle to the Galatians, counts "heresies" among "the sins
292 32 | CHALLENGED TO SHOW ANY APOSTOLIC CREDENTIALS.~But if there be any (heresies)
293 42 | Motherless, houseless, creedless, outcasts, they wander about
294 2 | powerful man, actually retires crest-fallen from the contest. In precisely
295 31 | the adulteration of the crop by its enemy the devil with
296 36 | Thessalonians. Since you are able to cross to Asia, you get Ephesus.
297 29 | martyrs wrongly received their crowns! Else, if not wrongly done,
298 4 | persecute her at that day by the cruelty of his attacks, except that
299 38 | the truth only with a more cunning mind and skill than Marcion.
300 41 | exorcisms, to undertake cures--it may be even to baptize.
301 32 | are in fact being founded daily), yet, since they agree
302 22 | them there be introduced damaging exposures of those things
303 44 | the true faith from the danger which besets it. On the
304 25 | there is no mysterious hint darkly suggested in this expression
305 2 | place amongst all other deadly and excruciating issues (
306 44 | will, besides, add a good deal respecting the high authority
307 16 | admonition as the purpose of dealing with a heretic, and the
308 22 | would be nothing left to be dealt with, let us give way for
309 4 | ravening wolves but those deceitful senses and spirits which
310 14 | But when, for the sake of deceiving us, they pretend that they
311 4 | are the false prophets but deceptive predictors of the future?
312 20 | was prescribing; (and this declaration He made,) either openly
313 8 | when even Peter had not yet declared Him to be the Son of God,
314 21 | apostles rounded in person, by declaring the gospel to them directly
315 30 | I allow their mightiest deed to be that by which they
316 30 | therefore have their mighty deeds also brought forward; except
317 13 | acknowledge what it is which we defend--it is, you must know, that
318 16 | this, that our faith owes deference to the apostle, who forbids
319 44 | they say who shall have defiled it, even the virgin which
320 34 | reason of the above-mentioned definition, of lateness of date, which
321 35 | by us, according to these definitions, let all the heresies boldly
322 7 | THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DEFLECTIONS FROM CHRISTIAN FAITH AND
323 10 | to believe, All further delay for seeking and finding
324 22 | all things, but did not deliver all things to all persons,--
325 42 | own society, but from the demolition of the truth, they undermine
326 7 | doctrines" of men and "of demons" produced for itching ears
327 21 | It remains, then, that we demonstrate whether this doctrine of
328 30 | faultiness, and therefore demonstrates the difference of the documents.
329 11 | faith, I am found to be a denier thereof. Once for all I
330 33 | apostles, were both exposed and denounced by the said apostles. For
331 44 | of the writings and the denunciations of the Lord and the apostles,
332 18 | footing (with yourself) in denying and in defence, or at any
333 20 | the eleven others, on His departure to the Father, to "go and
334 20 | FOUNDED CHURCHES AS THE DEPOSITORIES THEREOF. THAT FAITH, THEREFORE,
335 44 | His apostles concerning depraved and perverse doctrines assailing
336 42 | may erect their own. Only deprive them of the law of Moses,
337 3 | EASY PREY TO HERESY, WHICH DERIVES STRENGTH FROM THE GENERAL
338 20 | THEREFORE, IS APOSTOLIC, WHICH DESCENDED FROM THE APOSTLES, THROUGH
339 11 | ceased to believe. If I thus desert my faith, I am found to
340 3 | Philetus, and Hymenaeus, deserted His apostle: the betrayer
341 12 | unless forsooth he be a deserter, and a runaway, and a rebel?
342 11 | ramble, when he (purposely) deserts nothing. But yet, if I have
343 44 | So, forsooth, they will deserve to be forgiven! If, however,
344 44 | future, that so they might deservedly be regarded as apostles.
345 33 | his epistle he especially designates those as "Antichrists" who "
346 16 | inhibited in this way, by designating admonition as the purpose
347 20 | the apostles, whom this designation indicates as "the sent."
348 8 | constitute instruction properly designed for ourselves, but rather
349 20 | at His side, and whom He destined to be the teachers of the
350 42 | WORK TO PULL DOWN AND TO DESTROY, NOT TO EDIFY AND ELEVATE.
351 2 | excruciating issues (of life) for destroying man: we are not surprised
352 44 | RESPECT FOR CHRIST, AND DESTROYS ALL FEAR OF HIS GREAT JUDGMENT.
353 12 | from that which tends to destruction. No man receives illumination
354 9 | one's aim is carefully to determine the sense of the words consistently
355 37 | position is clear, when it determines that heretics ought not
356 8 | NO WARRANT FOR HERETICAL DEVIATIONS FROM THE FAITH. ALL CHRIST'
357 22 | which they mendaciously devise.~
358 43 | submission (to authority), and a devout attendance, and a modest
359 7 | of Stoic, Platonic, and dialectic composition! We want no
360 7 | who invented for these men dialectics, the art of building up
361 7 | the opinion that the soul dies is held by the Epicureans;
362 26 | some other rule of faith, differing from and contrary to that
363 39 | wondered at as if it were a difficult and inexplicable process,
364 9 | saying is so unconnected and diffuse, that its words only are
365 3 | faithful, no one excels in dignity, but the Christian; and
366 31 | return, however, from this digression to discuss the priority
367 43 | honourable and yet thoughtful diligence, as well as an anxious carefulness
368 17 | by means of additions and diminutions, for the accomplishment
369 21 | declaring the gospel to them directly themselves, both rivet race,
370 33 | The same apostle, when disapproving of those who are "in bondage
371 14 | but themselves, whom we disavow. For since they are still
372 22 | their attendance, in their discipleship, in their society, to whom, "
373 25 | all the world, whilst they disclosed others (only) in secret
374 11 | he received the bread, he discontinued knocking. The widow kept
375 44 | to me afterwards to be a discreditable thing. I had said that He
376 7 | The same subject-matter is discussed over and over again by the
377 26 | speak, they did hold certain discussions, yet it is incredible that
378 37 | certain, always held you as disinherited, and rejected you as strangers--
379 15 | they catch the weak, and dismiss waverers with a doubt. Accordingly,
380 7 | interpreter of the nature and the dispensation of God. Indeed heresies
381 39 | CALLS SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESSES DISPLAYED BY PAGAN AUTHORS, AND BY
382 7 | composition! We want no curious disputation after possessing Christ
383 41 | bold enough to teach, to dispute, to enact exorcisms, to
384 34 | he was fire. Valentinus disseminated his AEons, and traced the
385 5 | HERESY, AS WELL AS SCHISM AND DISSENSION, DISAPPROVED BY ST. PAUL,
386 39 | AND BY HERETICS, IN NO DISSIMILAR MANNER. HOLY SCRIPTURE ESPECIALLY
387 40 | IDOLATRY, SATAN IMITATED AND DISTORTED THE DIVINE INSTITUTIONS
388 28 | same faith? No casualty distributed among many men issues in
389 23 | arranged amongst themselves a distribution of office, not a diversity
390 14 | the blind, down into the ditch." But when, for the sake
391 37 | permission, Valentinus, are you diverting the streams of my fountain?
392 7 | corrupts it, and is itself divided into its own manifold heresies,
393 42 | and the prophets, and the divinity of the Creator, and they
394 34 | the Lord said could not be done--making "the disciples above
395 36 | INDISPUTABLE. THE CHURCH OF ROME DOUBLY APOSTOLIC; ITS EARLY EMINENCE
396 33 | on certain who denied and doubted the resurrection. This opinion
397 14 | themselves ever seeking, a doubter to doubters, a waverer to
398 14 | ever seeking, a doubter to doubters, a waverer to waverers,
399 41 | creed. To begin with, it is doubtful who is a catechumen, and
400 36 | apostles, from which she drinks in her faith. This she seals
401 8 | God; they were only as "a drop from a bucket," and "as
402 32 | bishops, running down in due succession from the beginning
403 | During
404 8 | from a bucket," and "as dust from the threshing floor,
405 6 | this point, however, we dwell no longer, since it is the
406 24 | persons and causes. Just (e.g.) as if Peter too had censured
407 44 | forbidden you to lend an ear to heretics; but in this
408 41 | truth. Nowhere is promotion easier than in the camp of rebels,
409 3 | III. WEAK PEOPLE FALL AN EASY PREY TO HERESY, WHICH DERIVES
410 33 | charged to chastise those "who eat things sacrificed to idols,"
411 7 | answer: From enthymesis and ectroma. Unhappy Aristotle! who
412 42 | truth, they undermine our edifices, that they may erect their
413 42 | DOWN AND TO DESTROY, NOT TO EDIFY AND ELEVATE. HERETICS DO
414 6 | Of these the practical effects are false doctrines, called
415 33 | Church. From these primary eight ten other AEons after them
416 8 | none, either by entrance or ejection? Is it not rather he who
417 39 | necessary for faith, that the elect may be made manifest,(and)
418 30 | episcopate of the blessed Eleutherus, until on account of their
419 42 | DESTROY, NOT TO EDIFY AND ELEVATE. HERETICS DO NOT ADHERE
420 20 | struck off, He commanded the eleven others, on His departure
421 7 | productive of contentions--embarrassing even to itself, retracting
422 30 | expositions and acknowledged emendations, makes these changes on
423 36 | DOUBLY APOSTOLIC; ITS EARLY EMINENCE AND EXCELLENCE. HERESY,
424 3 | GENERAL FRAILTY OF MANKIND. EMINENT MEN HAVE FALLEN FROM FAITH;
425 30 | how comes it that they employ the things and he writings
426 41 | are bound to some secular employment; at another, persons who
427 36 | sweetest fig there springs the empty and useless wild-fig. In
428 38 | home-born with that which it emulates, it is as incredible to
429 40 | therefore he has Shown such emulation in his great aim of expressing,
430 24 | FORMER IN THE THIRD HEAVEN ENABLED HIM TO ADD TO THE FAITH.
431 41 | to teach, to dispute, to enact exorcisms, to undertake
432 34 | that such as had no exist- ence in the time of the apostles
433 10 | be nowhere, and still be encountering (that challenge), "Seek,
434 13 | IT BY BELIEVERS. HERETICS ENCOURAGE AND PERPETUATE THOUGHT INDEPENDENT
435 3 | murder and adultery. Solomon, endowed by the Lord with all grace
436 29 | gifts, so many spiritual endowments, were wrongly set in operation;
437 39 | collectors of Homeric odds and ends," who stitch into one piece,
438 36 | their blood! where Peter endures a passion like his Lord'
439 9 | RESEARCH AFTER DEFINITE TRUTH ENJOINED ON US. WHEN WE HAVE DISCOVERED
440 6 | almost every epistle, when enjoining on us (the duty) of avoiding
441 7 | Jesus, no inquisition after enjoying the gospel! With our faith,
442 13 | to take the saints to the enjoyment of everlasting life and
443 30 | herself afterwards became an enormous prostitute. Having been
444 2 | snare, or, because they are ensnared, they cherish their surprise,
445 18 | XVIII. GREAT EVIL ENSUES TO THE WEAK IN FAITH, FROM
446 11 | although I should by no means entertain such expectation, unless
447 7 | settles with the answer: From enthymesis and ectroma. Unhappy Aristotle!
448 10 | argument wherewithal to entice me, and draw me over to
449 17 | it receives not in their entirety; but even when it does receive
450 8 | through none, either by entrance or ejection? Is it not rather
451 3 | afterwards subverted by envy. David, a good man "after
452 36 | to cross to Asia, you get Ephesus. Since, moreover, you are
453 7 | soul dies is held by the Epicureans; while the denial of the
454 32 | been appointed to their episcopal places by apostles, they
455 30 | church of Rome under the episcopate of the blessed Eleutherus,
456 9 | were addressed to all men (equally). Yet even here one's aim
457 44 | be refuted on definite, equitable, and necessary rules, without
458 42 | edifices, that they may erect their own. Only deprive
459 42 | standing houses than the erection of fallen ruins. It is only
460 11 | delinquency; although indeed to err it is itself an act of delinquency.
461 11 | FAITH.~There is impunity in erring, if there is no delinquency;
462 39 | thinking out and fabricating errors, which ought not to be wondered
463 2 | when they have the means of escape: but heresies would have
464 14 | that they may palm their essays upon us by the suggestion
465 37 | themselves, to whom the estate belonged. I am the heir
466 3 | ought never to have been esteemed prudent, or faithful, or
467 43 | of their conduct, may be estimated the quality of their faith.
468 2 | however, which bring with them eternal death and the heat of a
469 36 | Holy Ghost, feeds with the Eucharist, cheers with martyrdom,
470 36 | volume with the writings of evangelists and apostles, from which
471 7 | pulling down; an art so evasive in its propositions, so
472 30 | described (the order of events in the life of Christ);
473 4 | Antichrists, both now and evermore, but the men who rebel against
474 44 | WORKS OF OUR AUTHOR.~These evidences, then, of a stricter discipline
475 32 | like manner by Peter. In exactly the same way the other churches
476 36 | APOSTLES, LET THE HERETICS EXAMINE THEIR APOSTOLIC CLAIMS,
477 23 | not enough for any man who examines before he believes, since
478 36 | ITS EARLY EMINENCE AND EXCELLENCE. HERESY, AS PERVERTING THE
479 3 | one is faithful, no one excels in dignity, but the Christian;
480 12 | NEVER BE OUT OF PLACE OR EXCESSIVE, IS ALWAYS WITHIN THE RULE
481 4 | should be deemed approved who exchange their creed for heresy;
482 16 | APOSTOLIC SANCTION TO THIS EXCLUSION OF HERETICS FROM THE USE
483 30 | banished at last to a permanent excommunication, they scattered abroad the
484 2 | amongst all other deadly and excruciating issues (of life) for destroying
485 29 | ministries, were wrongly executed; and, to sum up the whole,
486 32 | other churches likewise exhibit (their several worthies),
487 22 | ignorant, to whom He even exhibited His own glory with Moses
488 5 | especially when with reproofs he exhorts men to turn away from such,
489 34 | course) that such as had no exist- ence in the time of the
490 41 | teach, to dispute, to enact exorcisms, to undertake cures--it
491 11 | no means entertain such expectation, unless it were because
492 12 | his master? What soldier expects to get bounty and pay from
493 30 | they were more than once expelled. Marcion, indeed, [went]
494 14 | knowledge, some one of the experienced class, some one of your
495 40 | the curious rites of his expiations and vows: is it not clear
496 33 | the apostles, were both exposed and denounced by the said
497 22 | persons,--in either case exposing Christ to blame for having
498 38 | another their meaning by his exposition. For although Valentinus
499 22 | there be introduced damaging exposures of those things which they
500 34 | existed, their names would be extant, with a view to their own