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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
Against Marcion

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1 I, 3 | UNITY OF GOD. HE IS THE SUPREME BEING, AND THERE CANNOT 2 I, 3 | THERE CANNOT BE A SECOND SUPREME.~The principal, and indeed 3 I, 3 | acknowledge, that God is the great Supreme existing in eternity, unbegotten, 4 I, 3 | makes God to be the great Supreme, because for such a purpose 5 I, 3 | so that God is the great Supreme in form and in reason, and 6 I, 3 | in some sense the great Supreme, except the man who shall 7 I, 3 | the condition of the great Supreme Himself? Surely it must 8 I, 3 | there is no other great supreme; because, if there were, 9 I, 3 | would be no longer the great Supreme, now that the condition 10 I, 3 | to be equal to the great Supreme, is subverted. That Being, 11 I, 3 | then, which is the great Supreme, must needs be unique, by 12 I, 3 | ceasing to be the great Supreme. Therefore He will not otherwise 13 I, 3 | then, God is the great Supreme, our Christian verity has 14 I, 3 | that is to say, the great Supreme. But then` the great Supreme 15 I, 3 | Supreme. But then` the great Supreme must needs be unique. This 16 I, 3 | otherwise God than as the great Supreme; and not otherwise the great 17 I, 3 | not otherwise the great Supreme than as having no equal; 18 I, 3 | is the attribute of the Supreme Being, to have no equal, 19 I, 4 | many in number, are yet supreme in their several regions. 20 I, 4 | example of a king, as a great supreme, take care that you can 21 I, 4 | For although a king is supreme on his throne next to God, 22 I, 4 | a comparison? Why, when supreme power among kings cannot 23 I, 4 | must needs follow that the supreme majesty will redound to 24 I, 4 | removed and excluded from the supreme authority. Thus, although, 25 I, 4 | spread out in several hands, supreme authority seems to be multifarious, 26 I, 4 | compared, as two kings and two supreme authorities, the concentration 27 I, 4 | superiority that he is the supreme, his rival being now vanquished, 28 I, 4 | deny that God is the great Supreme, which no wise man will 29 I, 5 | did Marcion confine his supreme powers to two? I would first 30 I, 5 | refuses to admit several supreme begins, the same must reject 31 I, 5 | Being to which, as the great Supreme, nothing is equal; and that 32 I, 5 | advantage in supposing two supreme beings, two co-ordinate 33 I, 5 | them are on the supposition supreme, both being gods, neither 34 I, 5 | before me (who, being both Supreme Beings, were equal to each 35 I, 6 | believed as the one only great Supreme Being, excluding from Him 36 I, 6 | according to the law of the Supreme Being, we have sufficiently 37 I, 6 | same rule about the great Supreme will protect us, inasmuch 38 I, 6 | God, except as the great Supreme. Since, therefore, he is 39 I, 6 | does not deny is the great Supreme, it is inadmissible that 40 I, 6 | should predicate of the Supreme Being such a diminution 41 I, 6 | should subject Him to another Supreme Being. For He ceases (to 42 I, 6 | Being. For He ceases (to be Supreme), if He becomes subject 43 I, 6 | confessed then both to be supreme. Nothing will you be able 44 I, 7 | who is accounted the great Supreme because of His essence, 45 I, 7 | they are called gods (i.e. supreme beings, on the strength, 46 I, 7 | and therefore great and supreme essence), in so far the 47 I, 7 | attribute of being the great Supreme cannot be regarded as less 48 I, 7 | one than in another great Supreme. If the happiness, and sublimity, 49 I, 7 | sublimity, and perfection of the Supreme Being shall hold good of 50 I, 7 | Marcion's. Therefore two supreme beings will be neither equal 51 I, 7 | meets us respecting the Supreme Being, that He is capable 52 I, 16| invisible for their own, (the supreme) God. But who, except an 53 I, 17| MARCIONITES PRETEND, THAT THE SUPREME GOD SHOULD RESCUE MAN; HE 54 I, 17| has delivered man by his supreme and most excellent goodness, 55 I, 17| unworthy of God, especially the supreme and best. This topic, however, 56 I, 18| revelation; whether Marcion's supreme god has become known in 57 II, 7 | God's attributes both His supreme earnestness of purpose and 58 II, 17| protective of His Catholic and supreme goodness, which, removed 59 II, 27| condition, prostrated the supreme dignity of His majesty to


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