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501 IV, 20 | spirits, you should learn that Christ also must be understood
502 IV, 20 | knew none other than the Christ of their own God. They do
503 IV, 20 | failings and infirmities in Christ; for I on my side mean to
504 IV, 20 | says our heretic? Could Christ have known the person? And
505 IV, 20 | excused in the same way as Christ, and Christ acting similarly
506 IV, 20 | same way as Christ, and Christ acting similarly to the
507 IV, 20 | that her God was working in Christ; she touched Him, therefore,
508 IV, 20 | knew for certain to be in Christ. But she recollected this
509 IV, 20 | shall not understand." When Christ approved of the faith of
510 IV, 21 | XXI. CHRIST'S CONNECTION WITH THE CREATOR
511 IV, 21 | PETER. BEING ASHAMED OF CHRIST. THIS SHAME IS ONLY POSSIBLE
512 IV, 21 | ONLY POSSIBLE OF THE TRUE CHRIST. MARCIONITE PRETENSIONS
513 IV, 21 | god which recommended by Christ, was dearly attested by
514 IV, 21 | Herod that Jesus was the Christ; others, that He was John;
515 IV, 21 | discover all this conduct of Christ pursued by that man of God,
516 IV, 21 | the word of the Lord." O Christ, even in Thy novelties Thou
517 IV, 21 | the words, "Thou art the Christ," he could not but have
518 IV, 21 | perceived that He was that Christ, beside whom he knew of
519 IV, 21 | other than the Creator's Christ, while He commanded them "
520 IV, 21 | foretold for the Creator's Christ (as we shall fully show
521 IV, 21 | ashamed." Now to none but my Christ can be assigned the occasion
522 IV, 21 | flesh. But how can that Christ of yours be liable to a
523 IV, 21 | once complete; immediately Christ; simply spirit, and power,
524 IV, 21 | ashamed of me." But as for our Christ, He could do no otherwise
525 IV, 21 | in not being ashamed of Christ. Now, Marcion, which of
526 IV, 21 | is better suited to your Christ, in respect of a meritorious
527 IV, 22 | INCONSISTENT IN ASSOCIATING WITH CHRIST IN GLORY TWO SUCH EMINENT
528 IV, 22 | darkness of the Creator which Christ was sent to disperse, far
529 IV, 22 | glory! How would their own Christ act? I suppose He would
530 IV, 22 | revealed them just as Marcion's Christ was bound to do, or at least
531 IV, 22 | well befit the Creator's Christ, as to manifest Him in the
532 IV, 22 | recognizing the companions of his Christ in their indissoluble connection
533 IV, 22 | supposed that (Jesus) was their Christ, it is then evident that
534 IV, 22 | when previously asked by Christ, "Whom they thought Him
535 IV, 22 | be," meant the Creator's Christ, when he answered, "Thou
536 IV, 22 | answered, "Thou art the Christ;" because if he had been
537 IV, 22 | divinity had been revealed by Christ, and that Peter had so far
538 IV, 22 | mistake, because hitherto Christ had revealed nothing of
539 IV, 22 | nothing of the kind; and that Christ accordingly was not to be
540 IV, 22 | from Moses and Elias to Christ, it is still not from another
541 IV, 22 | another God, or to another Christ; but from" the Creator to
542 IV, 22 | from" the Creator to His Christ, in consequence of the departure
543 IV, 22 | share in even the glory of Christ. But we have the entire
544 IV, 22 | went away enlightened from Christ, just as he used to do from
545 IV, 23 | IMPOSSIBLE THAT MARCION'S CHRIST SHOULD REPROVE THE FAITHLESS
546 IV, 23 | FOR INFANTS AS THE TRUE CHRIST WAS APT TO SHEW, ALSO IMPOSSIBLE
547 IV, 23 | CONFRONTED AND INSTRUCTED BY CHRIST SAMARIA.~I take on myself
548 IV, 23 | of Israel. Let Marcion's Christ stand forth, and exclaim, "
549 IV, 23 | faithless." But, behold, Christ takes infants, and teaches
550 IV, 23 | from Pharaoh's command. Christ therefore shares this kindness
551 IV, 23 | contrary, the severe rebuke of Christ on His disciples, when they
552 IV, 23 | that this gentleness of Christ was promised by the selfsame
553 IV, 23 | the third case before us, (Christ) forbids the man "to look
554 IV, 24 | THE SEVENTY DISCIPLES, AND CHRIST'S CHARGE TO THEM. PRECEDENTS
555 IV, 24 | SUPPOSING THAT MARCION'S CHRIST COULD HAVE GIVEN THE POWER
556 IV, 24 | unleavened dough; whereas Christ commanded His disciples
557 IV, 24 | the prophets, forsooth, is Christ, seeing it is from them
558 IV, 24 | Antitheses; they compare Christ with, instead of sundering
559 IV, 24 | merciful to cattle? Now, when Christ pronounced labourers to
560 IV, 24 | intercourse descended to Christ from Him. The form of it
561 IV, 24 | conferred first of all upon His Christ, even as the ninetieth Psalm
562 IV, 24 | strong sword" (even His Christ) "against that dragon, that
563 IV, 25 | XXV. CHRIST THANKS THE FATHER FOR REVEALING
564 IV, 25 | POSSIBLE TO THE CREATOR'S CHRIST.~Who shall be invoked as
565 IV, 25 | his might revealing by his Christ. Now in what respect had
566 IV, 25 | heaven nor the Father of Christ but He in whom all these
567 IV, 25 | Accordingly, that which Christ thanks God for doing, He
568 IV, 25 | if He has designated His Christ as an enlightener of the
569 IV, 25 | revelation of them through Christ, was the same God as He
570 IV, 25 | thus far found effected in Christ. "All things," He says, "
571 IV, 25 | believe Him, if He is the Christ of the Creator to whom all
572 IV, 25 | was an unknown god that Christ preached! And other heretics,
573 IV, 25 | which were being seen under Christ. Now if He had not been
574 IV, 25 | Now if He had not been my Christ, He would not have made
575 IV, 25 | have already shown, that in Christ those things were seen which
576 IV, 25 | seems to have consulted Christ simply about the life which
577 IV, 25 | dead were now raised by Christ, and being himself excited
578 IV, 25 | disposal, that he inquired and Christ answered, and not about
579 IV, 25 | necessarily maintain also by Christ, for that rule holds good
580 IV, 25 | enough for me, that the Christ who invited men to the eternal
581 IV, 25 | what would the Creator's Christ have done. if He who had
582 IV, 26 | CHAPTER OTHER EVIDENCE THAT CHRIST COMES FROM THE CREATOR.
583 IV, 26 | PRAYER AND OTHER WORDS OF CHRIST. THE DUMB SPIRIT AND CHRIST'
584 IV, 26 | CHRIST. THE DUMB SPIRIT AND CHRIST'S DISCOURSE ON OCCASION
585 IV, 26 | god had been proclaimed by Christ. For nobody would have wanted
586 IV, 26 | he ought also to ask of Christ whether they too must not (
587 IV, 26 | but in another manner. Christ accordingly would not have
588 IV, 26 | these duties and rewards by Christ, in order that man, who
589 IV, 26 | abundant in strength. This Christ also showed, when, recalling
590 IV, 27 | XXVII. CHRIST'S REPREHENSION OF THE PHARISEES
591 IV, 27 | that they are also found in Christ. Behold how unequal, inconsistent,
592 IV, 27 | resembles my God as: His own Christ? We have often already laid
593 IV, 27 | not yet passed to admit of Christ's requiring so premature
594 IV, 27 | Now, if these offended Christ, it was as belonging to
595 IV, 27 | fathers. Was it not because (Christ) was jealous of such a disposition
596 IV, 27 | it behove the Creator's Christ to act.~
597 IV, 28 | INSTRUCTION AND CONDUCT OF CHRIST ARE IN KEEPING WITH THE
598 IV, 28 | Pharisees were sinning that (Christ) now forbade His disciples
599 IV, 28 | Now they who shall confess Christ will have to be slain before
600 IV, 28 | put him to death. And so Christ is the Creator's, because
601 IV, 28 | into hell. Now, since it is Christ who averts blasphemy from
602 IV, 28 | blasphemed with impunity, and his Christ denied; and that there is
603 IV, 28 | novel doctrines of the new Christ are such as the Creator'
604 IV, 28 | example of Moses and of Christ. Moses voluntarily interferes
605 IV, 28 | prince or a judge over us?" Christ, on the contrary, when requested
606 IV, 28 | Moses is better than your Christ, aiming as he did at the
607 IV, 28 | case must be different with Christ, for he is the Christ of
608 IV, 28 | with Christ, for he is the Christ of the simply good and non-judicial
609 IV, 29 | THE PROPHETS TO ILLUSTRATE CHRIST'S TEACHING IN THE REST OF
610 IV, 29 | THE STERNER ATTRIBUTES OF CHRIST, IN HIS JUDICIAL CAPACITY,
611 IV, 29 | would first ask, what Father Christ would have to be here understood?
612 IV, 29 | how is it that Marcion's Christ himself promises them? Is
613 IV, 29 | for our Lord," that is, Christ. Whence "returning?" If "
614 IV, 29 | the wedding," He is the Christ of the Creator, for the
615 IV, 29 | he displays the Creator's Christ under the title "Son of
616 IV, 29 | Son of man, the Creator's Christ, not a thief, but a Judge.
617 IV, 29 | Him who remunerates? Your Christ proclaims, "I am come to
618 IV, 29 | predicted it to Marcion's Christ! On this account He pronounced
619 IV, 29 | paraded before us, so often is Christ (shown to be) His, to whom
620 IV, 30 | WILL BE ADMINISTERED BY CHRIST, WHO IS SHOWN THEREBY TO
621 IV, 30 | meant by the man? Surely Christ, because (although Marcion'
622 IV, 30 | the person of the man from Christ to any person who receives
623 IV, 30 | can be none else than the Christ of the Creator.~
624 IV, 31 | XXXI. CHRIST'S ADVICE TO INVITE THE POOR
625 IV, 31 | OLD TESTAMENT MARCION'S CHRIST COULD NOT FULFIL THE CONDITIONS
626 IV, 31 | of humanity. Now, since Christ forbids the recompense to
627 IV, 31 | the latest invitation to Christ. (Now, I ask,) after going
628 IV, 32 | SUITABLE APPLICATION TO THE CHRIST OF MARCION.~WhO sought after
629 IV, 33 | REFUTED. THE PROPHETS JUSTIFY CHRIST'S ADMONITION AGAINST COVETOUSNESS
630 IV, 33 | OF THE CREATOR. SO SAID CHRIST BUT SO ALSO HAD ISAIAH SAID
631 IV, 33 | Creator was meant, and that Christ called them off from the
632 IV, 33 | one God was pointed out by Christ. For they were two masters
633 IV, 33 | which is the kingdom of God, Christ Himself. For although, as
634 IV, 33 | that John has come, that Christ must be that very Being
635 IV, 33 | even then by Isaiah it was Christ, the Word and Spirit of
636 IV, 33 | God might be announced by Christ, He therefore purposely
637 IV, 34 | MOSES, ALLOWING DIVORCE, AND CHRIST PROHIBITING IT, EXPLAINED.
638 IV, 34 | MANIFESTED IN BOTH STATES.~But Christ prohibits divorce, saying, "
639 IV, 34 | gospel- between Moses and Christ? To be sure there is! But
640 IV, 34 | same verity and the same Christ. There, while prohibiting
641 IV, 34 | institution of the Creator, whose Christ He was. Since, however,
642 IV, 34 | your own ground, as if your Christ were mine. When, therefore,
643 IV, 34 | Moses? But, observe, if this Christ be yours when he teaches
644 IV, 34 | in any way permitted by Christ, how is it that you on your
645 IV, 34 | not permit "the members of Christ to be joined to a harlot."
646 IV, 34 | justly deserved, has even in Christ a defender. So that Moses
647 IV, 34 | divorce in the same sense as Christ does, if any unchastity
648 IV, 34 | thy youth." Thus you have Christ following spontaneously
649 IV, 34 | unite those whom even your Christ has united; and repeat the
650 IV, 34 | the good reason why your Christ would have them separated.
651 IV, 34 | and harbour to belong to Christ and his own god. Our answer
652 IV, 34 | stories towards heaven" which Christ "builds" of course for His
653 IV, 34 | He (that is, of course, Christ) who walketh in righteousness,
654 IV, 34 | the Creator, and His only Christ, and how that both awards
655 IV, 34 | Moses and the prophets, but Christ; Hear Him is the command.
656 IV, 34 | prophets, for they had followed Christ, being persuaded by Moses
657 IV, 34 | able to say, "Thou art the Christ," unless he had beforehand
658 IV, 34 | prophets, by whom alone Christ had been hitherto announced.
659 IV, 35 | THE JUDICIAL SEVERITY OF CHRIST AND THE TENDERNESS OF THE
660 IV, 35 | SIMILAR TO THAT OF MOSES. CHRIST, THE STONE REJECTED BY THE
661 IV, 35 | SEVERITY IN THE COMING OF CHRIST. PROOFS THAT HE IS NOT THE
662 IV, 35 | maintaining that here also Christ is its enemy forestalling
663 IV, 35 | necessity was there for Christ, who had been once for all
664 IV, 35 | the law in the person of Christ? If any pan of this healing
665 IV, 35 | law, which signified that Christ was the true distinguisher
666 IV, 35 | if anybody supposes that Christ had such views as these!
667 IV, 35 | appertained the promised Christ, in order that men might
668 IV, 35 | hitherto been healed through Christ? And therefore it was said
669 IV, 35 | His true High Priest Jesus Christ. But it is impossible either
670 IV, 35 | ever yet been announced by Christ; or that He should have
671 IV, 35 | or even the glory, of any Christ at all, that He could have
672 IV, 35 | the coming of the Hebrew Christ, let us still wait in expectation
673 IV, 36 | PHARISEE AND THE PUBLICAN. CHRIST'S ANSWER TO THE RICH RULER,
674 IV, 36 | OF DAVID. ALL PROOFS OF CHRIST'S RELATION TO THE CREATOR,
675 IV, 36 | ANTITHESIS BETWEEN DAVID AND CHRIST CONFUTED.~When He recommends
676 IV, 36 | humility. I do not find from Christ any temple, any suppliants,
677 IV, 36 | you dare say to this? Did Christ rescind the forementioned
678 IV, 36 | follow the Lord thy God?" Now Christ is the man who tells us
679 IV, 36 | faith: "Thy faith," say Christ, "hath made thee whole."
680 IV, 36 | after-times would not admit Christ to be the son of David so,
681 IV, 36 | David so, on the contrary, Christ succoured the blind man,
682 IV, 37 | XXXVII. CHRIST AND ZACCHAEUS. THE SALVATION
683 IV, 37 | ENTRUSTED WITH TEN POUNDS. CHRIST A JUDGE, WHO IS TO ADMINISTER
684 IV, 37 | because he also believed that Christ came by Marcion? But the
685 IV, 37 | affords a confirmation that Christ belongs to the Creator,
686 IV, 38 | XXXVIII. CHRIST'S REFUTATIONS OF THE PHARISEES.
687 IV, 38 | MARCION'S BUT THE CREATOR'S CHRIST. MARCION'S TAMPERINGS IN
688 IV, 38 | GOD, EXPOSED AND CONFUTED.~Christ knew "the baptism of John,
689 IV, 38 | or to His comparison with Christ; then consider what would
690 IV, 38 | Why, therefore," asks Christ, "did ye not believe him?"
691 IV, 38 | look after his own mint. Christ bids the denarius of man'
692 IV, 38 | that we should expect from Christ conduct which would be unfit
693 IV, 38 | of the dispute. And to it Christ was obliged to return a
694 IV, 38 | marriage. Now, if you make Christ answer questions which were
695 IV, 38 | the question submitted to Christ had nothing to do with the
696 IV, 38 | however, the Scribes thought Christ was David's Son, whereas (
697 IV, 38 | what relation has this to Christ? David did not literally
698 IV, 38 | David asserted the honour of Christ, when he more prominently
699 IV, 38 | the glory of the Creator's Christ, no other would thus guard
700 IV, 38 | but Himself the Creator's Christ.~
701 IV, 39 | WHO COME IN THE NAME OF CHRIST. THE TERRIBLE SIGNS OF HIS
702 IV, 39 | IS NONE OTHER THAN THE CHRIST OF THE CREATOR. THIS PROOF
703 IV, 39 | first both to announce His Christ to mankind, and to give
704 IV, 39 | therefore, of Marcion's Christ will be evident, when he
705 IV, 39 | him, since he is not the Christ and Jesus of the Creator,
706 IV, 39 | and by come and say, I am Christ," they will be received
707 IV, 39 | one altogether like them. Christ, however, comes in His own
708 IV, 39 | these names, the Creator's Christ and Jesus? Will you reject
709 IV, 39 | Marcion introduces to us a Christ who is not subject to the
710 IV, 39 | respect from the promises of Christ, He will be a match in the
711 IV, 39 | have been promised by your Christ than by my Son of man. (
712 IV, 39 | man is (the advent) of my Christ, then, when you ascribe
713 IV, 39 | it is the coming of your Christ, then, when you ascribe
714 IV, 40 | BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.~In like manner does He
715 IV, 40 | well enough for another Christ, but would not have been
716 IV, 40 | this figure of the body of Christ, who said Himself by Jeremiah: "
717 IV, 40 | Judah, out of whose tribe Christ was to come according to
718 IV, 40 | it even then delineated Christ in the person of that patriarch,
719 IV, 41 | JUDICIAL ACT, WHICH DISPROVES CHRIST TO BE SUCH AS MARCION WOULD
720 IV, 41 | MARCION WOULD HAVE HIM TO BE. CHRIST'S CONDUCT BEFORE THE COUNCIL
721 IV, 41 | BEFORE THE COUNCIL EXPLAINED.CHRIST EVEN THEN DIRECTS THE MINDS
722 IV, 41 | than prevent his fall. The Christ of the prophets was destined,
723 IV, 41 | asked whether He is the Christ. Of what Christ could the
724 IV, 41 | He is the Christ. Of what Christ could the Jews have inquired
725 IV, 41 | declare to them the rival (Christ)? You reply, In order that
726 IV, 41 | proclaiming Himself the other Christ, but because they wanted
727 IV, 42 | SCRIPTURES OF THE CREATOR. CHRIST'S GIVING UP THE GHOST NO
728 IV, 42 | declaring Himself to be Christ the King; that is, undoubtedly,
729 IV, 42 | Pirate asked Him, "Art thou Christ (the King)?" He answered,
730 IV, 42 | the Lord and against His Christ." The heathen were Pilate
731 IV, 42 | for he had prophesied of Christ: "And they shall carry Him
732 IV, 42 | while the most righteous Christ is delivered to be put to
733 IV, 42 | as a booty for your false Christ, still all the Psalm (compensates)
734 IV, 42 | compensates) the vesture of Christ. But, behold, the very elements
735 IV, 42 | gladly gazing at Marcion's Christ suspended on his gibbet!
736 IV, 42 | to present to us the very Christ! He calls with a loud voice
737 IV, 42 | there, then? If a phantom Christ was yet there. If Christ
738 IV, 42 | Christ was yet there. If Christ had departed, He had taken
739 IV, 43conc| CONCLUSIONS. JESUS AS THE CHRIST OF THE CREATOR PROVED FROM
740 IV, 43conc| MANIFOLD APPEARANCES OF CHRIST AFTER THE RESURRECTION.
741 IV, 43conc| IN PROPHECY. THE BODY OF CHRIST AFTER DEATH NO MERE PHANTOM.
742 IV, 43conc| disciples as none other than the Christ of the prophets. For as
743 IV, 43conc| that is, the Creator's Christ. So far had He been from
744 IV, 43conc| Himself to them as another Christ! They could not, however,
745 IV, 43conc| however, deem Him to be the Christ of the Creator; nor, if
746 IV, 43conc| Him to be the Creator's Christ, the Redeemer of lsrael.
747 IV, 43conc| We have set forth Jesus Christ as none other than the Christ
748 IV, 43conc| Christ as none other than the Christ of the Creator. Our proofs
749 IV, 43conc| been in vain. For the Jesus Christ who appears in your Gospel
750 V | THAT THE LORD JESUS WAS HIS CHRIST. AS IN THE PRECEDING BOOKS,
751 V, 1intro| NEW GOD. CALLED BY JESUS CHRIST, ALTHOUGH AFTER THE OTHER
752 V, 1intro| improvidence is imputable to Christ, for not knowing before
753 V, 1intro| nor by man, but by Jesus Christ." Of course, any one may
754 V, 1intro| shall come, saying, I am Christ." Now if any one can pretend
755 V, 1intro| one can pretend that he is Christ, how much more might a man
756 V, 1intro| profess to be an apostle of Christ! But still, for my own part,
757 V, 1intro| establishing them. Let there be a Christ, let there be an apostle,
758 V, 1intro| would educate the fold of Christ, as the teacher of the Gentiles.
759 V, 1intro| as you have received the Christ the apostle shown to be
760 V, 1intro| to be as much mine as the Christ is. And here, too, we will
761 V, 1intro| to cross over. For either Christ had already revealed another
762 V, 1intro| apostle of the god whom Christ had revealed, and because
763 V, 1intro| been already revealed by Christ or Christ had made no such
764 V, 1intro| already revealed by Christ or Christ had made no such revelation
765 V, 1intro| as we adopted before in Christ's case, to prove that he
766 V, 2 | which should arise, whilst Christ marks the period of the
767 V, 2 | coming as he does) in Christ, who was revealed after
768 V, 2 | to suppose that faith in Christ (the Creator's Christ, of
769 V, 2 | in Christ (the Creator's Christ, of course) was obligatory,
770 V, 2 | gospel to be excluded in the Christ of the Creator? Take away
771 V, 2 | because it is the office of Christ's gospel to call men from
772 V, 2 | that is, in the name of Christ, to whom He says, "I have
773 V, 2 | than the Creator, and prove Christ to belong to no other God
774 V, 2 | divinity in the Creator's Christ as if Paul did not follow
775 V, 3 | to expunge the Creator's Christ, but by so retaining the
776 V, 3 | liberty which we have in Christ, that they might bring us
777 V, 3 | preached that God and that Christ whose law he was excluding
778 V, 3 | the Lord, and against His Christ," in order that thenceforward
779 V, 3 | confirming the prophets, even as Christ did. The object, therefore,
780 V, 3 | same author. Why, however, "Christ was made a curse for us,"
781 V, 3 | hangeth on a tree," that Christ belonged to another god,
782 V, 3 | man, through the curse of Christ, who formerly set both a
783 V, 4 | NAME. THE CREATOR, BY HIS CHRIST, THE FOUNTAIN OF THE GRACE
784 V, 4 | to thy seed,' which is Christ." Fie on Marcion's sponge!
785 V, 4 | we have the promise of (Christ's) holy church; by reason
786 V, 4 | of "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free," does
787 V, 4 | the Lord and against His Christ.'' All those, therefore,
788 V, 4 | why does he say that "in Christ neither circumcisoin availeth
789 V, 4 | both lost their power in Christ, by reason of the excellency
790 V, 4 | and so fulfill the law of Christ," since this cannot be accomplished
791 V, 4 | is really "the law of Christ," though literally the law
792 V, 4 | the law of the Creator. Christ, therefore, is the Creator'
793 V, 4 | therefore, is the Creator's Christ, as Christ's law is the
794 V, 4 | the Creator's Christ, as Christ's law is the Creator's law. "
795 V, 4 | calls them "persecutors of Christ." But when he adds, that "
796 V, 4 | in his body the scars of Christ" since scars, of course,
797 V, 4 | truth, that the flesh of Christ is not putative, but real
798 V, 5 | ANTI-MARCIONITE. THE CROSS OF CHRIST PURPOSED BY THE CREATOR.
799 V, 5 | OFFENCE AND FOOLISHNESS OF CHRIST'S CROSS BY HIS IMPIOUS SEVERANCE
800 V, 5 | rebellion? "The cross of Christ," he says, "is to them that
801 V, 5 | both the cross, and also Christ by reason of the cross,
802 V, 5 | order that the cross of Christ, considered as his adversary,
803 V, 5 | anything about the cross of a Christ who is not His own, and
804 V, 5 | perdition, to whom the cross of Christ is accounted folly; (how
805 V, 5 | who is to become known (in Christ) is the Creator. The very "
806 V, 5 | stumbling-block" which he declares Christ to be "to the Jews," points
807 V, 5 | This rock or stone is Christ. This stumbling-stone Marcion
808 V, 5 | but the cross and death of Christ? What is that "weakness
809 V, 5 | incarnation of God? If, however, Christ was not born of the Virgin,
810 V, 6 | THE WORLD WHICH CRUCIFIED CHRIST. ST. PAUL, AS A WISE MASTER-BUILDER,
811 V, 6 | afterwards to be revealed in Christ, who was set "as a light
812 V, 6 | crucified the Lord (that is, the Christ of the rival god) in order
813 V, 6 | the God of glory in His Christ, with that desperation and
814 V, 6 | only foundation, which is Christ?" Of this work the Creator
815 V, 6 | not give any sign of His Christ, as destined to be the foundation
816 V, 6 | is, the foundation of His Christ. "Know ye not that ye are
817 V, 7 | BY THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES. CHRIST OUR PASSOVER A PHRASE WHICH
818 V, 7 | THE ANCIENT DISPENSATION. CHRIST'S TRUE CORPOREITY. MARRIED
819 V, 7 | bring to light," even by Christ; for He has promised Christ
820 V, 7 | Christ; for He has promised Christ to be a Light, and Himself
821 V, 7 | Christians). "For even Christ our passover is sacrificed
822 V, 7 | sacrificed for us." But why is Christ our passover, if the passover
823 V, 7 | passover be not a type of Christ, in the similitude of the
824 V, 7 | and of the Lamb, which is Christ? Why does (the apostle)
825 V, 7 | the apostle) clothe us and Christ with symbols of the Creator'
826 V, 7 | bodies are the members of Christ?'' What has the heretic
827 V, 7 | say? That these members of Christ will not rise again, for
828 V, 7 | none at all was paid, since Christ was a phantom, nor had He
829 V, 7 | our bodies! But, in truth, Christ had wherewithal to redeem
830 V, 7 | they are now members of Christ, and not our own), surely
831 V, 7 | the dissolution thoreof. Christ plainly forbids divorce,
832 V, 7 | follow, that of Moses or of Christ? Even Christ, however, when
833 V, 7 | Moses or of Christ? Even Christ, however, when He here commands "
834 V, 7 | thought it was because in Christ there was another god! And
835 V, 7 | all things" comes also Christ. When he teaches that every
836 V, 7 | For since "that rock was Christ," it was, of course, the
837 V, 7 | ancient things prefigured the Christ who was to be educed out
838 V, 8 | IMAGE OF THE CREATOR AND CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE MAN. SPIRITUAL
839 V, 8 | The head of every man is Christ." What Christ, if He is
840 V, 8 | every man is Christ." What Christ, if He is not the author
841 V, 8 | for He, when looking on Christ His Word, who was to become
842 V, 8 | promised by the Creator through Christ; and I think that we may
843 V, 8 | of a flower he shows that Christ was to arise out of the
844 V, 8 | the son of Jesse. In this Christ the whole substantia of
845 V, 8 | prophecy has reference to that Christ who (as mere man of the
846 V, 8 | the time when (the true Christ) should appear in the flesh
847 V, 8 | how he declared that by Christ Himself, when returned to
848 V, 8 | the latter days; and since Christ has in these last days appeared
849 V, 8 | belongs to Him who is the Christ of the predicters. Now compare
850 V, 8 | chief commandment, just as Christ has shown it to be: "Thou
851 V, 8 | Creator promised them for His Christ who is not yet revealed,
852 V, 8 | operations in His time, in His Christ, and among His people. Let
853 V, 8 | therefore without doubt the Christ, and the Spirit, and the
854 V, 9 | THE BODY WILL RISE AGAIN. CHRIST'S JUDICIAL CHARACTER. JEWISH
855 V, 9 | PSALMS. NONE BUT HE IS THE CHRIST OF THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS.~
856 V, 9 | has the better right to a Christ who is not yet revealed.
857 V, 9 | yet revealed. Just as my Christ is to be expected, who was
858 V, 9 | from the beginning, so his Christ therefore has no existence,
859 V, 9 | which believes in a future Christ, than the heretic's, which
860 V, 9 | presented to me the body of Christ. But if we are all so made
861 V, 9 | are all so made alive in Christ, as we die in Adam, it follows
862 V, 9 | that we are made alive in Christ as a bodily substance, since
863 V, 9 | complete, unless our revival in Christ concur in identity of substance
864 V, 9 | parenthetical statement concerning Christ, which, bearing as it does
865 V, 9 | succeed in showing that Christ belongs to that God who
866 V, 9 | the following promise to Christ: "Sit Thou at my right hand,
867 V, 9 | announced to the shepherds that Christ had at that moment been
868 V, 9 | was a mystic purpose in Christ's being born at night, destined,
869 V, 9 | especial care understood of Christ? "I have begotten Thee from
870 V, 9 | priest for ever," relates to (Christ) Himself. Hezekiah was no
871 V, 9 | the offering of tithes? To Christ, however, "the order of
872 V, 9 | will be very suitable; for Christ is the proper and legitimate
873 V, 9 | to the King," that is, to Christ who was to come as King, "
874 V, 9 | King's son," that is, to Christ's people; for His sons are
875 V, 9 | the Psalm which apply to Christ alone, be enough to teach
876 V, 9 | the rest, too, relates to Christ, and not to Solomon? "He
877 V, 9 | the ends of the earth." To Christ alone was this given; whilst
878 V, 9 | all thus worship, except Christ? "All nations shall serve
879 V, 9 | all thus do homage, but Christ? "His name shall endure
880 V, 9 | this eternity of fame, but Christ's? "Longer than the sun
881 V, 9 | be the Word of God, even Christ. "And in Him shall all nations
882 V, 9 | was no nation blessed; in Christ every nation. And what if
883 V, 9 | can be believed to be the Christ of the Creator.~
884 V, 10 | RAISED BODY, AGAINST MARCION. CHRIST AS THE SECOND ADAM CONNECTED
885 V, 10 | just before remarked of Christ Himself: "The first man
886 V, 10 | we should contend that Christ, being the second Adam,
887 V, 10 | the Son of man to be both Christ and Man; so that he will
888 V, 10 | conditions) in Adam or in Christ. Therefore, when exhorting
889 V, 11 | OLD TESTAMENT, AND ALSO IN CHRIST. THE NEWNESS OF THE NEW
890 V, 11 | GUILTY IN REJECTING THE CHRIST OF THE CREATOR. SATAN, THE
891 V, 11 | Father) of our Lord Jesus Christ, will be understood to be
892 V, 11 | from their view, if the Christ of the Creator, whom Moses
893 V, 11 | predictions of Moses relating to Christ, in whom it was their duty
894 V, 11 | the apostle of a strange Christ to complain of, if the Jews
895 V, 11 | concealed from their eyes the Christ of Moses? Then, again, the
896 V, 11 | is turned to the faith of Christ, he will understand how
897 V, 11 | understand how Moses spoke of Christ. But how shall the veil
898 V, 11 | Creator be taken away by the Christ of another god, whose mysteries
899 V, 11 | with a veil), "beholding Christ, are changed into the same
900 V, 11 | Spirit in the person of Christ "even as," to use his words, "
901 V, 11 | MOsaic system was a figure of Christ, of whom the Jews indeed
902 V, 11 | own accord recognised His Christ, who ought to be understood
903 V, 11 | in the face of (Jesus) Christ." Now who was it that said; "
904 V, 11 | who was it that said to Christ concerning giving light
905 V, 11 | person) of the Lord here is Christ. Wherefore the apostle said
906 V, 11 | the apostle said above: Christ, who is the image of God."
907 V, 11 | the image of God." Since Christ, then, is the person of
908 V, 11 | light," it follows that Christ and the apostles, and the
909 V, 11 | Gentiles they were without Christ, aliens from (the commonwealth
910 V, 11 | loyalty to him, in which Christ's very death is borne about,
911 V, 11 | That the life also of Christ may be manifested in our
912 V, 11 | body. Now of what life of Christ does he here speak? Of that
913 V, 11 | be of the future life of Christ that he speaks, intimating
914 V, 12 | OPPRESSION. THE JUDGMENT-SEAT OF CHRIST THE IDEA, ANTI-MARCIONITE.
915 V, 12 | JUDICIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRIST WHICH ARE INCONSISTENT WITH
916 V, 12 | PREACHER OF THE CREATOR'S CHRIST.~As to the house of this
917 V, 12 | before the judgement-seat of Christ, that every one may receive
918 V, 12 | therefore any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old;
919 V, 12 | church as a chaste virgin to Christ," a spouse to a spouse in
920 V, 13 | predicted as it was indeed in Christ, and in the Creator's own
921 V, 13 | own plans ordained for His Christ. (But I must revert to that
922 V, 13 | ashamed of the gospel (of Christ): for it is the power of
923 V, 13 | the apostle), "by (Jesus) Christ." So that both the gospel
924 V, 13 | that both the gospel and Christ must be His, to whom appertain
925 V, 13 | vindicated by the gospel and Christ even at that judgment of
926 V, 13 | effect. even the gospel and Christ. Hence his invective against
927 V, 13 | by the faith of (Jesus) Christ." What means this distinction?
928 V, 13 | are justified by faith in Christ and not by the law to have
929 V, 13 | Him also will belong the Christ, in whom we are justified
930 V, 13 | eternal) life by Jesus Christ," His own antagonist! For
931 V, 13 | maintained to the glory of the Christ, not of the Creator, but
932 V, 13 | remark about the substance of Christ, in the prospect of a question
933 V, 13 | It may be contended that Christ's body is indeed a body,
934 V, 13 | he mentions "the body of Christ," whom he immediately after
935 V, 13 | am bound to conclude that Christ was predicted by the law
936 V, 14 | THE DIVINE POWER SHOWN IN CHRIST'S INCARNATION. MEANING OF
937 V, 14 | subjoins: "He that raised up Christ from the dead, shall also
938 V, 14 | the bodily substance of Christ; inasmuch as our own mortal
939 V, 14 | righteousness of God; for Christ is the end of the law for
940 V, 14 | their law not receiving Christ, the end (or finisher) of
941 V, 14 | of His dispensations by Christ, who was to bring about
942 V, 14 | the Lord and against His Christ" from ignorance of Him,
943 V, 14 | relation to the faith of Christ coming from the law. If
944 V, 14 | If also the gospel of Christ is fulfilled in this same
945 V, 14 | precept, but not the Creator's Christ, what is the use of our
946 V, 14 | contending any longer whether Christ did or did not say, "I am
947 V, 14 | with "the judgment-seat of Christ," the Judge, of course,
948 V, 14 | therefore the Creator's (Christ). This Creator, too, however
949 V, 15 | THEIR PROPHETS AND THEN OF CHRIST. THIS A PRESUMPTION THAT
950 V, 15 | A PRESUMPTION THAT BOTH Christ AND THE PROPHETS PERTAINED
951 V, 15 | DISCIPLINE, AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST BOTH ENJOIN CHASTITY. THE
952 V, 15 | IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BY CHRIST. MAN'S COMPOUND NATURE.~
953 V, 15 | acrimonious in their killing Christ the proclaimer of the new
954 V, 15 | climax. Now, if it were the Christ of one god and the prophets
955 V, 15 | same Lord, then, belonged Christ and the prophets. What that "
956 V, 15 | remain unto the coming of Christ," along with "the dead in
957 V, 15 | along with "the dead in Christ, shall rise first," being "
958 V, 15 | ones, unto me?" Now, as Christ has prepared for us this
959 V, 15 | into heaven, He must be the Christ of whom Amos spoke: "It
960 V, 15 | Lord and Saviour (Jesus) Christ?" Now he has here pro-pounded
961 V, 16 | ADMINISTERED. BY MARCION'S CHRIST. THE MAN OF SIN WHAT? INCONSISTENCY
962 V, 16 | opposition, conclude that Christ belongs to a God who kindles
963 V, 16 | gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ," whether they be sinners
964 V, 16 | Antichrist, who deny that Christ is come in the flesh, and
965 V, 16 | acknowledge Jesus (to be the Christ), meaning in God the Creator.
966 V, 16 | after all) the Creator's Christ; because according to him
967 V, 16 | him to be) then He is the Christ of the Creator, as Marcion
968 V, 16 | can suborn the Creator's Christ to avenge his truth? But
969 V, 17 | RECAPITULATION OF ALL THINGS IN CHRIST FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE
970 V, 17 | CREATION. NO ROOM FOR MARCION'S CHRIST HERE. NUMEROUS PARALLELS
971 V, 17 | THE WORK OF ONE GOD. HOW CHRIST HAS MADE THE LAW OBSOLETE.
972 V, 17 | declared Him to be God in Christ with whom all things agree
973 V, 17 | Greek word) "all things in Christ, both which are in heaven
974 V, 17 | first are gathered up in Christ? What beginning, however,
975 V, 17 | accomplishment of all things in Christ, even of things in heaven?
976 V, 17 | recapitulated them in an alien Christ, instead of their own proper
977 V, 17 | proper Author in His own Christ? If, again, they belong
978 V, 17 | short destroyed? Again, what Christ do the following words announce,
979 V, 17 | glory, who first trusted in Christ?" Now who could have first
980 V, 17 | except the Jews to whom Christ was previously announced,
981 V, 17 | Gospel will be found in the Christ, who was foretrusted, because
982 V, 17 | Father of glory" is He whose Christ, when ascending to heaven,
983 V, 17 | It was He who "wrought in Christ His mighty power, by raising
984 V, 17 | another god and another Christ, let us go in quest of the
985 V, 17 | persecuted the church and the Christ of the Creator. Therefore
986 V, 17 | workmanship, created in Christ." It is one thing to make (
987 V, 17 | first), created him also in Christ. As touching the substance
988 V, 17 | that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth
989 V, 17 | what God and without what Christ were these Gentiles? Surely,
990 V, 17 | the promise. "But now in Christ," says he, "ye who were
991 V, 17 | speaks above, even tom the Christ of the Creator, from the
992 V, 17 | are consequently now in Christ made nigh to these (blessings),
993 V, 17 | far off. But if we are in Christ brought so very nigh to
994 V, 17 | ridiculous (to suppose that) the Christ of the other god has brought
995 V, 17 | His peace was announced in Christ, as we have often shown
996 V, 17 | enmity which was a rival to Christ. And thus you have (as I
997 V, 17 | workmanship, created in Christ Jesus"), "one new man, making
998 V, 17 | also, that there was in Christ a fleshly body, such as
999 V, 17 | building was to stand in Christ upon the foundation of the
1000 V, 17 | whence did he learn to call Christ "the chief corner-stone,"