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  1      I, 1pref |  compendious principle of novelty, being called in on all occasions
  2      I, 3     |          OF GOD. HE IS THE SUPREME BEING, AND THERE CANNOT BE A SECOND
  3      I, 3     |        than one. So far as a human being can form a definition of
  4      I, 3     |           God is but some inferior being, in order that he may deny
  5      I, 3     |        Supreme, is subverted. That Being, then, which is the great
  6      I, 3     |       condition whereby He has His being; that is, by His absolute
  7      I, 3     |           Not as if we doubted His being God, by saying, He is not,
  8      I, 3     |            we define Him, in whose being we thoroughly believe, to
  9      I, 3     |       needs be unique. This Unique Being, therefore, will be God
 10      I, 3     |            having no equal than as being Unique. Whatever other god,
 11      I, 3     |           attribute of the Supreme Being, to have no equal, an attribute
 12      I, 4     |      transferred to God. Now, this being the case, how will you employ
 13      I, 4     |          one alone, all the others being gradually, by the issue
 14      I, 4     |          is the supreme, his rival being now vanquished, and proved
 15      I, 5     |        declares that God must be a Being to which, as the great Supreme,
 16      I, 5     |         nothing is equal; and that Being to which nothing is equal
 17      I, 5     |          supposition supreme, both being gods, neither of them is
 18      I, 5     |           two Gods before me (who, being both Supreme Beings, were
 19      I, 6     |         the one only great Supreme Being, excluding from Him every
 20      I, 6     |          to the law of the Supreme Being, we have sufficiently affirmed
 21      I, 6     | designation, be because the Divine Being can be neither said nor
 22      I, 6     |           predicate of the Supreme Being such a diminution as should
 23      I, 6     |     subject Him to another Supreme Being. For He ceases (to be Supreme),
 24      I, 6     |         supremacy of this inferior being. But when you confessed
 25      I, 7     |      essence, of which indeed that Being consists who is called God,
 26      I, 7     |            so far the attribute of being the great Supreme cannot
 27      I, 7     |          perfection of the Supreme Being shall hold good of Marcion'
 28      I, 7     |        expounded, that the Surpeme Being admits of no comparison
 29      I, 7     |          us respecting the Supreme Being, that He is capable of no
 30      I, 9     |          Both, I suppose, as for a being who is still uncertain,
 31      I, 9     |           inasmuch as the Creator, being a known God, caused him
 32      I, 9     |          him to be unknown; so, as being a certain God, he made him
 33      I, 9     |        uncertain, as unknown. This being the case, does it appear
 34      I, 9     |  certainties for determination, as being freed by the diversity of
 35      I, 10    |           His witnesses this whole being of ours, and this universe
 36      I, 11    |       Marcionites aver, of any god being above Himself, and who used
 37      I, 11    |           on the assumption of His being alone without a rival, He
 38      I, 15    |      Emperor Severus; although, as being more excellent than the
 39      I, 15    |       space for a god, not only as being greater than God, but as
 40      I, 15    |           greater than God, but as being also unbegotten and unmade,
 41      I, 15    |    according to the rule of Deity, being (to be sure) unbegotten,
 42      I, 18    |            believed to be the very being who had been already proved
 43      I, 20    |        that very Paul indeed, who, being yet in the mere rudiments
 44      I, 21    |    teaching will have the fight of being received as apostolic than
 45      I, 22    |   perpetual and unbroken, such as, being stored up and kept ready
 46      I, 22    |         the goodness of the Divine Being might be inaugurated in
 47      I, 23    |   reasonable quality should escape being regarded as evil. Now I
 48      I, 23    |      receive, because, so far from being abrogated by Christ, it
 49      I, 23    |       makes man such, what sort of being prithee would the irrational
 50      I, 24    |             not breathed him, into being a fabric of flesh, not of
 51      I, 24    |           not of spirit. Now, this being the case, with what face
 52      I, 25    |                  XXV. GOD IS NOT A BEING OF SIMPLE GOODNESS; OTHER
 53      I, 25    |          compatible with Deity, as being neither natural, nor rational,
 54      I, 25    |        indeed be fitting that that Being should be regarded as God
 55      I, 25    |          ought to be regarded as a Being of simple goodness, to the
 56      I, 25    |       found which befit the Divine Being. If (Marcion) chose to take
 57      I, 25    |           Christians?). For that a being who in ages past was in
 58      I, 25    |            the intended liberation being to the advantage of some
 59      I, 26    |         functions of the judge, as being a stranger to all notions
 60      I, 26    |    accomplishment of a thing after being moved at the possibility
 61      I, 26    |          so unworthy of the Divine Being as not to execute retribution
 62      I, 27    |          if you do not fear God as being good, why do you not boil
 63      I, 27    |           salvation? Therefore his being cast away will involve the
 64      I, 29    |            if it were evil; but as being ripe for its discharge,
 65     II, 2     |            KNOWLEDGE OF THE DIVINE BEING, OPPOSED TO AND SUBVERSIVE
 66     II, 2     |        judgments unsearchable," as being those of God the Judge;
 67     II, 2     |        those critics of the Divine Being, who say, God ought not
 68     II, 2     |           blame that Author of his being, Whom from the beginning
 69     II, 3     |         man; so that His goodness, being discovered immediately along
 70     II, 3     |          is likewise of the Divine Being, on those very grounds whereby
 71     II, 3     |    originated, had it a beginning. Being therefore without aIl order
 72     II, 3     |       account worthy of the Divine Being, putting to shame for ever
 73     II, 4     |       tarry among higher delights, being translated into paradise,
 74     II, 4     |           might, as the sole human being, boast that he alone was
 75     II, 4     |        from God; and as a rational being, capable of intelligence
 76     II, 5     |            THE PERFECTION OF MAN'S BEING LAY IN HIS LIBERTY, WHICH
 77     II, 6     |         the additional fact of its being worthy of the Divine Being;
 78     II, 6     |         being worthy of the Divine Being; the cause which led to
 79     II, 6     |           cause which led to man's being created with such a constitution
 80     II, 6     |           with such a constitution being shown to be the better one.
 81     II, 6     |          God, of course, foresaw), being free, and master of himself;
 82     II, 8     |          master of himself; and as being the image and likeness of
 83     II, 8     |    stronger than any angel; and as being, too, the afflatus of the
 84     II, 8     |         the afflatus of the Divine Being, was nobler than that material
 85     II, 8     |           now also, the same human being, the same substance of his
 86     II, 9     |            other words, the Divine Being is faultless, therefore
 87     II, 9     |          slenderness of nature, as being the breath and not the spirit;
 88     II, 9     |         from its power of will, as being free, and not a slave. It
 89     II, 9     |           as he chose. This, then, being the case, the entire course
 90     II, 9     |           man's doing; nor is that Being to be regarded as the author
 91     II, 9     |           not give the reproach of being its own author to Him who
 92     II, 10    |            nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself
 93     II, 10    |         bitter punishment, through being vanquished by him whom he
 94     II, 11    |            however, disprove God's being a judge, who have no proof
 95     II, 12    |           OF JUSTICE IN THE DIVINE BEING DESCRIBED.~Since, therefore,
 96     II, 12    |           of all things, worthy of being herself, too, deemed innate
 97     II, 13    |       result: the divine goodness, being interrupted in that free
 98     II, 13    |         towards good? What sort of being ought you to wish God to
 99     II, 14    |         their own account good, as being just and defensive of good
100     II, 16    |            sensations in the human being are rendered just as corrupt
101     II, 21    |         and a sacred work, and, as being then ordered by the direct
102     II, 22    |      declared also the reasons, as being prohibitory of all material
103     II, 23    |             however, the same man, being found on different occasions
104     II, 23    |           both a good and judicial Being, He does not change His
105     II, 24    |           most fitly chosen him as being at that moment the choicest
106     II, 24    |           incompatible with such a Being, that is, with the most
107     II, 24    |        Creator's nature as an evil being, but what may be attributed
108     II, 27    |           DEROGATORY TO THE DIVINE BEING IN THIS ECONOMY. THE DIVINE
109     II, 27    |           He is of human passions) being a partaker of that Godhead
110     II, 27    |          proper section: that from being a judge He must needs be
111     II, 27    |          needs be severe; and from being severe He must also be cruel,
112     II, 29    |       proper fulness of the Divine Being as omnipotent, I am able
113    III, 2     |  precedence of its own original in being acknowledged, nor in like
114    III, 2     |           required preparation, as being for the salvation of man,
115    III, 2     |          man be reposed in God; it being a duty, after that knowledge
116    III, 3     |            because He was later in being acknowledged; and authority
117    III, 4     |           wished to come, as a new being in a new way a son previous
118    III, 5     |          the reader's attention by being called into controversy
119    III, 5     |     discussion, and by their proof being confounded with the proof
120    III, 5     |       difference of time with that Being in whom eternity itself
121    III, 6     |          beforehand pointed out as being about to commit such offences
122    III, 6     |      affirm the possibility of His being rejected (for if He had
123    III, 6     |   demonstrated that they, by their being deprived of those powers
124    III, 6     |           prophecy? That admits of being understood or being not
125    III, 6     |      admits of being understood or being not understood, which, by
126    III, 7     |           temple, even His church, being that very stone in Daniel,
127    III, 7     |         and pulling, and piercing, being thus marked with all the
128    III, 7     |       passion; while the other, by being offered up for sins, and
129    III, 8     |          was not incarnate without being flesh, human without being
130    III, 8     |         being flesh, human without being man, and likewise a divine
131    III, 8     |            a divine Christ without being God! But why should he not
132    III, 8     |            Since however, Christ's being flesh is now discovered
133    III, 8     |             If with a touch, or by being touched, He freed any one
134    III, 9     |            better and more perfect being, by just so much will all
135    III, 9     |           for me to define this as being fit and proper to God, even
136    III, 9     |          could become incarnate by being born of the flesh in order
137    III, 9     |       brief experience of flesh by being born, because they were
138    III, 11    |           that flesh in the Divine Being should rather be unborn
139    III, 11    |        advantage was there in that being not true which was held
140    III, 13    |           for the incredible thing being believed, by giving a reason
141    III, 13    |          sense, the whole world as being marked out by superstition
142    III, 13    |            of the city of Rome, as being like (Babylon) great and
143    III, 15    |            For the name of God, as being the natural designation
144    III, 15    |            more useful of two Gods being rival ones, than if there
145    III, 15    |        would more certainly escape being taken for the Christ of
146    III, 15    |          to insinuate himself into being believed by the Jews, except
147    III, 16    |           gospel, our circumcision being effected by a knife of stone,
148    III, 16    |            of the Lord's own name, being called Joshua. This name
149    III, 16    |          him to be a far different being from the Creator's Christ,
150    III, 20    |        claim for some son of David being here meant, rather than
151    III, 20    |          for the ends of the earth being promised to David, whose
152    III, 21    |            of Marcion, all nations being called to His kingdom, from
153    III, 24    |        after the primal promise of being like the sand of the sea
154     IV        |            ST. LUKE'S GOSPEL; THAT BEING THE ONLY HISTORICAL PORTION
155     IV, 1     |           god of the light was one being, and the god of darkness
156     IV, 3     |          out, as if by some deluge being obliterated by the inundation
157     IV, 4     |            s Gospel (so far as its being the common property of ourselves
158     IV, 5     |       whatever is it known without being at the same time condemned.
159     IV, 5     |           the very beginning; for, being the work of apostles, they
160     IV, 6     |            nations, is a different being from Him who was ordained
161     IV, 7     |         say. To be sure he did, as being an envious (spirit), and
162     IV, 8     |            since it was capable of being touched and even violently
163     IV, 8     |       hands, which were capable of being felt, and conferred the
164     IV, 8     |           divulged for the sake of being feared: only that Marcion
165     IV, 8     |            maintaining that a good being Is not an object of fear,
166     IV, 8     |          fear, but only a judicial being, in whom reside the grounds
167     IV, 8     |          by persuasion like a good being, but by command and reproof.
168     IV, 9     |       could not be defiled as God, being of course incorruptible.
169     IV, 9     |           could not be defiled, as being a phantom, will not have
170     IV, 9     |        once by a word brought into being so vast a fabric as the
171     IV, 9     |         mercy and gentleness. For, being both good (such are his
172     IV, 10    |           that He was God also, as being likewise the Son of God,
173     IV, 10    |         man, He also named a human being? except it were because
174     IV, 10    |           Since He is born of man, being the Son of man. He is body
175     IV, 11    |           nowhere read of Christ's being foretold as the light, and
176     IV, 11    |            was not necessary. This being the case, he makes a mistake
177     IV, 12    |            Christ. But even if, as being not the Christ of the Jews,
178     IV, 12    |          following the Creator, as being His Christ, in this very
179     IV, 12    |         had the right to do so, as being its Lord, (and) still more
180     IV, 13    |          stone? For we read of His being placed "for a stone of stumbling
181     IV, 15    |      gospel. Besides, what sort of being is that who, to insinuate
182     IV, 15    |           of course more worthy of being obeyed than slighted; and
183     IV, 17    |       argument when He forbids its being asked for from a man who
184     IV, 17    |           my Father the same great Being whom the universe claims
185     IV, 17    |      Creator! But who is this kind being which hitherto has not been
186     IV, 17    |      however, it be now some other being which teaches mercy, on
187     IV, 17    |         whom alone they knew. This being the case, who will He clearly
188     IV, 18    |         the purpose of finding it, being in truth the God and Christ
189     IV, 18    |          original. Therefore John, being now an ordinary person,
190     IV, 18    |         his perverseness when, not being the Christ of John, he yet
191     IV, 18    |        position, or of Himself, as being thought to be less than
192     IV, 19    |     substituted the others, not as being truer relatives, but worthier
193     IV, 20    |          fact that His garment, by being touched, demonstrated also
194     IV, 20    |         received contamination, as being an unsubstantial thing.
195     IV, 21    |           CONFESSION OF ST. PETER. BEING ASHAMED OF CHRIST. THIS
196     IV, 21    |            no mistake, that reason being the necessity of His undergoing
197     IV, 21    | shamelessness in his faith, in not being ashamed of Christ. Now,
198     IV, 22    |          forbidden all others from being heard. Or else, did he mean
199     IV, 22    |        Moses and Elias, except (by being) in the Spirit? People could
200     IV, 23    |         flax shall He not quench." Being of such a character, He
201     IV, 24    |             one that is a judicial being? So, again, He commands
202     IV, 25    |          must be a most mendacious being, who had no other means
203     IV, 25    |         seen the things which were being seen under Christ. Now if
204     IV, 25    |          now raised by Christ, and being himself excited to the hope
205     IV, 25    |             Accordingly, the Lord, being Himself the same, and introducing
206     IV, 27    |        internal nature, both alike being in the power of Him who
207     IV, 27    |          deemed them excusable for being unable to carry burdens
208     IV, 27    |     tarnish the Creator as a cruel Being, against whom such as offended
209     IV, 27    |          feared to provoke a cruel Being, by withdrawing allegiance
210     IV, 28    |            that He forbids offence being given to Him whom He orders
211     IV, 28    |          above not to be afraid of being only killed; and this forewarning
212     IV, 29    |          it that He chides them as being "of little faith?" What
213     IV, 29    |        therefore upbraided them as being defective of faith in the
214     IV, 29    |           by himself, what sort of being is he, who shall bestow
215     IV, 29    |         the Lord, if He were not a Being to whom a wedding is consistent.
216     IV, 29    |           the thief, but rather as being the judge of those who prepared
217     IV, 29    |          earth." That most lenient being, the lord who has no hell,
218     IV, 29    |          what fire you insist upon being understood. Even if it be
219     IV, 30    |       might be done for any living being; and if for any one, then
220     IV, 30    |    incompatible with reason of one being supposed to punish, and
221     IV, 31    |          should not realize; "Sion being left as a cottages in a
222     IV, 33    |          and more to be adored, as being more truly our Master. Now,
223     IV, 33    |           the express intention of being separated from the very
224     IV, 33    |           Christ must be that very Being who was to follow His harbinger
225     IV, 34    |         divorce; the case supposed being, that a man put away his
226     IV, 34    |       future must be considered as being confirmed by Him, since
227     IV, 34    |          they had followed Christ, being persuaded by Moses and the
228     IV, 35    |           HE IS NOT THE IMPASSIBLE BEING MARCION IMAGINED.~Then,
229     IV, 35    |     proceeds from one and the same Being. A trespassing brother He
230     IV, 36    |       belonged to one and the same being, at whose disposal were
231     IV, 36    |          was seen to be a man), as being unborn, could not, of course,
232     IV, 38    |        become equal to the angels, being made the children of God
233     IV, 39    |         who, by reason of His name being properly given to Him, possessed
234     IV, 39    |           up and lift their heads, being redeemed in the time of
235     IV, 39    |      Creator, as the terrible God, being such as the good god (of
236     IV, 39    |          ascribed to the good god, being such as the Creator, in
237     IV, 40    |           is not one of flesh, not being fleshly, it would not possess
238     IV, 41    |           by the rival god, and as being, therefore, the enemy of
239      V        |            LUKE'S GOSPEL. FAR FROM BEING AT VARIANCE, THEY WERE IN
240      V, 1intro|        effect, for fear of his not being else regarded as an apostle
241      V, 1intro|          of the impropriety of his being concealed by the apostle
242      V, 2     |           the law, the only change being in the dispensation, the
243      V, 2     |           than by insisting on its being but one. But perhaps, to
244      V, 3     |            Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to
245      V, 3     |           quite helps our side, as being the result of the Creator'
246      V, 4     |            gendereth" (to liberty, being raised) above all principality,
247      V, 4     |    Christianity had a noble birth, being sprung, as the mystery of
248      V, 4     |     acceptance; the gist of it all being concentrated in this one
249      V, 5     |         considering the matter, it being of constant recurrence,
250      V, 5     |         because he is incapable of being irritated. What grace, therefore,
251      V, 5     |          it was a new god that was being preached, what sin had the
252      V, 6     |          the property of any other being than Him who claims the
253      V, 7     |           are called gods, without being truly so. He introduces
254      V, 7     |           are called gods, without being so; since, even if they
255      V, 7     |           educed out of them? For, being about to take a cursory
256      V, 8     |            is not yet revealed, as being destined only for the Jews,
257      V, 9     |         mystic purpose in Christ's being born at night, destined,
258      V, 10    |           but that body (which, as being born along with the soul,
259      V, 10    |       means of the soul, admits of being called animal (or natural)
260      V, 10    |           the excess of his folly, being unwilling that the statement
261      V, 10    |        should contend that Christ, being the second Adam, must needs
262      V, 10    |           not men also; his object being the more accurately to distinguish
263      V, 12    |          swallowed up of life," by being rescued from death in the
264      V, 14    |            own; but true still, as being of a nature 15 not really
265      V, 14    |         knowledge. For," says he, "being ignorant of (the righteousness
266      V, 14    |   certainly sets forth for us as a Being to be served, if he holds
267      V, 15    |          but they did not admit of being put on the same level: the
268      V, 15    |         Christ, shall rise first," being "caught up in the clouds
269      V, 16    |          God, and boast himself as being God?" According indeed to
270      V, 16    |          is "a jealous god." (This being then an unquestionable position,
271      V, 17    |          Creator. There is another being to whom they are more applicable
272      V, 17    |          must have) referred their being children of wrath to nature,
273      V, 17    |        Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in
274      V, 17    |            ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
275      V, 17    |             access to the Father," being "now no more strangers and
276      V, 18    |         only the Creator to be the being to whom belonged all the
277      V, 19    |          words and philosophy," as being "a vain deceit," such as
278      V, 20    |           over-much learning. This being the case, it is manifest
279      V, 20    |          different Christ that was being introduced by the apostle,
280      V, 20    |          he says of Christ, that, "being in the form of God, He thought