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1 I, 19 | are about 115 years and 6 1/2 months. Just such an interval
2 I, 19 | Antoninus Pius, there are about 115 years and 6 1/2 months.
3 IV, 14 | Just as it is said in the 125th Psalm: "They who sow in
4 V, 14 | still, as being of a nature 15 not really unlike ours.
5 IV, 33 | themselves before men," 16) and placed their hope of
6 I, 19 | about 115 years and 6 1/2 months. Just such an interval
7 IV, 15 | approbation when they maltreated (24 those whom the absolutely
8 I, 19 | are about 115 years and 6 1/2 months. Just such an
9 IV, 35 | gods, as tending to the abasement of the Creator in curing
10 V, 4 | into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father." For "in the last
11 I, 2 | moreover, in one Cerdon an abettor of this blasphemy, a circumstance
12 V, 14 | precepts of your new god: "Abhor that which is evil, and
13 II, 4 | and so not show himself an abject creature rather than a free
14 IV, 21 | never received the copious ablution, nor the meditation of salt
15 V, 3 | would have had summarily to abolish if he had published a new
16 V, 4 | principle of that which he was abolishing, if he had a mission from
17 III, 8 | precocious and somewhat abortive Marcionites, whom the Apostle
18 III, 14 | without any martial gear. The above-mentioned "fairness" of His beauty
19 IV, 13 | also altered the names of Abram, and Sarai, and Oshea, by
20 IV, 9 | forbade the man to publish abroad the cure; but so far as
21 I, 21 | god that he was eager to abrogate the law of the old God,
22 V, 2 | CREATOR HIMSELF, WAS THE ABROGATOR. THE APOSTLE'S DOCTRINE
23 IV, 10 | function of judgment, by the absolution. All that the opposite side
24 IV, 10 | retain them, and whether to absolve can belong to him who is
25 IV, 10 | for He who judges also absolves); so that, when once that
26 I, 11 | AT ALL. MARCION'S SCHEME ABSURDLY DEFECTIVE, NOT FURNISHING
27 III, 15 | dispensations by katachrestic abuse of words. Who is this god,
28 I, 5 | I might serve them both acceptably in only one; and by this
29 II, 12 | and natural, and not as accidentally accruing to God, inasmuch
30 V, 16 | both the truth and (its accompanying) salvation. The charge,
31 IV, 12 | excuses them, and became their accomplice in breaking the Sabbath.
32 IV, 22 | suitable conduct for one who accomplishes His purpose that He should
33 IV, 40 | suitable in One who was accomplishing prophecies. For it was written, "
34 II, 27 | gentleness of His which accorded with His kindness, (and)
35 IV, 5 | received amongst us, so far accords with their rule as to be
36 IV, 1 | diversity, to which there accrued a change of condition after
37 IV, 27 | but those which they were accumulating of their own accord, when
38 V, 17 | as if he were extremely accurate in investigating such a
39 IV, 37 | anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold."
40 IV, 3 | thereby accuses Christ, by accusing those whom Christ chose.
41 IV, 17 | lent, the more easily to accustom a man to the loss, should
42 V, 10 | for having enabled us to achieve "the victory" even over
43 I, 2 | flavouring it with the acidity of his own heresy. He had,
44 IV, 9 | wanted to have more earnestly acknowledged-touched the leper, by whom (even
45 II, 24 | repentance savoured of an acknowledgment of some evil work or error.
46 II, 25 | the opportunity of freely ackowledging his transgression, and,
47 III, 17 | Isaiah, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, who was led
48 I, 26 | is now committed with the acquiescence of his will, because whatever
49 V, 21 | the entire work, you will acquit us of either having been
50 I, 27 | while, on the other hand, he acquits it by not avenging it, and
51 IV, 17 | have judged or condemned, acquitted or dealt with, his neighbour;
52 V, 11 | dishonour and weakness will acrue to him, because the earthen
53 IV, 19 | hear." Not as if Christ, actuated with a diverse spirit, permitted
54 IV, 14 | His, by means of which He adapts the peculiarity of His doctrine
55 V, 4 | no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto." For by the figure
56 I, 18 | Marcionites are very strongly addicted to astrology; nor do they
57 III, 22 | person of Christ Himself addressing His Father; "I will declare
58 IV, 11 | was chosen by the Lord, he adduces for a proof that he was
59 I, 18 | CREATED EVIDENCE AND OF ADEQUATE REVELATION.~Well, then,
60 V, 6 | what (the apostle) here adjoins: "For it is written, He
61 IV, 15 | which is caught at by men is adjured by the Creator, down to
62 I, 11 | believed in as God, except they adjust him to the standard of Him
63 IV, 38 | whose sacrament John was administering. But, at any rate, when
64 III, 24 | Accordingly the Spirit, admiring such as soar up to the celestial
65 IV, 31 | Spirit is here meant, the admonisher of the guests. "Yet my people
66 IV, 27 | HOLINESS.SCRIPTURE ABOUNDS WITH ADMONITIONS OF A SIMILAR PURPORT, PROOFS
67 V, 13 | forbidding men to steal, adopting such methods as they are
68 V, 4 | that we might receive the adoption of sons," that is, the Gentiles,
69 III, 14 | under Thee," that is, in adoration. Thus is the Creator's Christ
70 III, 24 | Thee," says he, "like the adornment of a bride." Accordingly
71 V, 17 | Pontus, rather than the adroitness of a Marrucinian, for you
72 IV, 7 | only petulant, and evil in adulation just as if it had been Christ'
73 IV, 9 | of "the testimony," that adulator of his own Christ, Marcion
74 III, 14 | prosperously in Thy majesty" advancing His word into every land,
75 I, 11 | provides for the uses and advantages of life. Accordingly, this
76 II, 3 | regard it as a sudden or adventitious or impulsive emotion, because
77 IV, 11 | making, are new," does He not advert to a new state of things?
78 V, 11 | testimony of the clause (above adverted to), and certainly not to
79 IV, 31 | XXXI. CHRIST'S ADVICE TO INVITE THE POOR IN ACCORDANCE
80 IV, 38 | fear; that it should seem advisable for Him either to evade
81 V, 7 | the enjoyment of it, and advises the continuance therein
82 IV, 33 | understood by mammon. For when advising us to provide for ourselves
83 I, 5 | brood of no less than thirty AEgons, like the sow of AEneas.
84 I, 5 | AEgons, like the sow of AEneas. Now, whatever principle
85 IV, 10 | Valentinus did with his AEon; or else to deny that the
86 I, 13 | substance, and Juno to an aerial one (according to the literal
87 II, 4 | hand preceded by an almost affable utterance: "Let us make
88 I, 14 | when the small ones so affect you with pleasure or pain,
89 IV, 2 | open to the suspicion of an affectation of glory, if there did not
90 V, 14 | Then again: "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly
91 II, 9 | sinned, because it has an affinity with God, that is to say,
92 IV, 2 | could not be allowed him to affix a title to that from which
93 III, 18 | slain His prophets, even by affixing Him with nails to the cross.
94 V, 16 | tribulation to them who afflict us, and to ourselves, who
95 III, 24 | they have also suffered affliction for His name's sake. Of
96 V, 4 | Maker? Therefore, after such affluence (of grace), they should
97 IV, 16 | especially, although to the affluent likewise. But in order that
98 V, 13 | Creator's dispensation, by affording time to Him and to His law?
99 IV, 8 | appear in body, where He had aforetime, wrought in a cloud. To
100 II, 17 | Solons. There is not one after-age which does not take from
101 IV, 36 | people equally blind, who in after-times would not admit Christ to
102 III, 23 | by the powers and human agents of the Creator, or else
103 I, 22 | enough, for both wishing to aggravate his rival's obloquy by permitting
104 II, 25 | denying, and to this degree aggravating, his crime; and that thus
105 II, 2 | With whom the apostle agreeing exclaims, "Oh the depth
106 IV, 35 | alienated by the prophet Ahijah, Jeroboam settled in Samaria.
107 I, 2 | II. MARCION, AIDED BY CERDON, TEACHES A DUALITY
108 II, 3 | Being therefore without aIl order of a beginning, and
109 II, 20 | this very kind of piscatory ailment, as soon as they find themselves
110 I, 18 | Hostilius Fear, and Metellus Alburnus, and a certain authority
111 I, 7 | the names of kings your Alexanders, Caesars, and Pompeys! This
112 IV, 27 | ye possess as alms, and alI things shall be clean unto
113 IV, 29 | the things of another, and alienates man from his Lord. Again,
114 V, 17 | Gentiles from their distant alienation in words like these: "They
115 V, 14 | leap across; however, I alight on the place where the apostle
116 IV, 21 | years, not on the inferior aliment of bread and fish, but with
117 V, 19 | his prohibition of sundry aliments. For Moses had evidently
118 IV, 18 | course to the Lord, as to its all-embracing original. Therefore John,
119 V, 4 | promise: which things are allegorized" (that is to say, they presaged
120 V, 4 | sprung, as the mystery of the allegory indicates, from that son
121 V, 3 | occasions to be understood as in alliance with Judaism! When indeed
122 II, 11 | the position of a judge is allied with evil, who have been
123 IV, 10 | the earlier, and has had allotted to Him the name of Christ
124 V, 11 | found to meet in One. He alludes to Moses' veil, covered
125 V, 10 | the dead. His only aim in alluding to it was) that he might
126 I, 27 | when corrupt: for it is by allurement that it stands, not by authority;
127 I, 22 | a distance, and standing aloof from it. In short, here
128 V, 14 | sinning substance itself flesh also-only without sin, (effects the
129 I, 9 | I find, no doubt, that altars have been lavished on unknown
130 V, 4 | than this, even his partial alteration of the text. "For (it is
131 IV, 29 | OF CELIBACY, AND OF HIS ALTERING OF THE TEXT OF THE GOSPEL.~
132 I, 17 | encounter them. All these alternatives are unworthy of God, especially
133 II, 29 | a good God and a Judge, alters the examples of both points,
134 IV, 14 | because the needy shall not alway be forgotten; the endurance
135 I, 1pref | more audacious than an Amazon, darker than the cloud, (
136 II, 14 | pride so often rejected His ambassadors, accumulated heavy burdens
137 IV, 22 | unsuitable in one who is amenable to the retort, Can you,
138 IV, 5 | he did not think required amendment. In short, he simply amended
139 V, 15 | of the rival god, one so amiable withal, who could hardly
140 IV, 24 | forbids the reception of the Ammonites and the Moabites into the
141 III, 24 | God, when He restores in amnesty what He took away in wrath!
142 III, 13 | says: "Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite,"
143 IV, 11 | separation, by reformation, by amplification, by progress; just as the
144 II, 16 | they cut, or cauterize, or amputate, or tighten; whereas there
145 II, 16 | practitioner who cuts badly, amputates clumsily, is rash in his
146 III, 14 | forth upon Thy lips." It amuses me to imagine that blandishments
147 I, 13 | Heraclitus fire, Anaximenes air, Anaximander all the heavenly bodies,
148 I, 13 | water, Heraclitus fire, Anaximenes air, Anaximander all the
149 IV, 35 | mountains and the wells of their ancestors. Thus, in the Gospel of
150 I, 25 | that upon rivalry its own ancillary passions will be in attendance,
151 IV, 10 | suggestions rather than treat them anew. Concerning the Son of man
152 I, 16 | corporeal and incorporeal; of animate and inanimate; of vocal
153 I, 26 | unreasonable a way, as to annex no penalty to the offence.
154 I, 27 | prohibiting a thing without annexing the sanction of punishment.
155 V, 18 | he was bound rather to annihilate Him. "Children should obey
156 IV, 39 | boldly contend that it was as announcers of another god that the
157 IV, 15 | their refined wines, and anoint themselves with the costliest
158 I, 14 | nor the oil with which he anoints them; nor that union of
159 IV, 33 | from any quarter, however anomalous, than from the conceit that
160 III, 3 | than the Creator, because answering to the mighty deeds of the
161 I, 14 | the bee, the hills of the ant, the webs of the spider,
162 IV, 39 | of the common trees be an antecedent sign of the approach of
163 III, 6 | feelings, whose sin was antecedently so credible. Since, however,
164 III, 18 | of His cross. For of the antenna, which is a part of a cross,
165 V, 12 | encountering the oppressions of anti-christ, undergo a change, obtaining
166 V, 12 | DEATH, SO APT TO ARISE UNDER ANTI-CHRISTIAN OPPRESSION. THE JUDGMENT-SEAT
167 III, 8 | Apostle John designated as antichrists, when they denied that Christ
168 V, 13 | but of Marcion! I may here anticipate a remark about the substance
169 III, 16 | that name which was solely anticipated for Him. But since he has
170 I, 18 | authority some time since Antinous, the same accomplishment
171 I, 16 | AND THINGS INVISIBLE. THIS ANTITHETICAL PRINCIPLE IN FACT CHARACTERISTIC
172 IV, 14 | sorrowful, and sad, and anxious. Just as it is said in the
173 III, 15 | He should possess names apart from all others. For how
174 I, 14 | crucified in this sorry apartment of the Creator. Indeed,
175 V, 7 | yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world,
176 V, 2 | nobody had induced them to apostatize from the Creator, that they
177 IV, 5 | that comes down from the aposties, which has been kept as
178 IV, 5 | discover apostasy in it than apostolicity, with Marcion forsooth as
179 V, 21 | when he received (into his Apostolicon) this letter which was written
180 IV, 25 | conceals by His preparatory apparatus of prophetic obscurity,
181 IV, 22 | speak mouth to mouth, even apparently" (that is to say, in the
182 I, 18 | way than by Himself, and appeal not only to the standard
183 IV, 36 | Therefore the Son of David was appeased with some sort of satisfaction
184 V, 1intro| another countersigns; one man appends his seal, another registers
185 IV, 35 | toucheth you toucheth the apple of my eye." Such identity
186 IV, 14 | meadow, or an orchard of apples. I must therefore look out
187 II, 16 | but not subverted. All appliances He must needs use, because
188 V, 18 | by the apostle's help who applies the Creator's injunction,
189 IV, 9 | shipmasters, intending one day to appoint the shipmaster Marcion his
190 IV, 39 | For He affirms thai these appointments of His must fully come to
191 I, 15 | space, which is itself to be appraised on a precisely identical
192 V, 18 | miserable tree, from any apprehension that they would become gods;
193 III, 11 | elements. Now, as Marcion was apprehensive that a belief of the fleshly
194 IV, 7 | whom no one had as yet been apprised of His tribe, His nation,
195 I, 7 | condition, that I ascribe and appropriate the attribute of the supremacy.
196 IV, 40 | first purpose of a fee, and appropriated to the purchase of a potter'
197 IV, 11 | To Himself likewise He appropriates the church, concerning which
198 IV, 15 | with the rich; while Christ approves of the incentives of the
199 II, 12 | and paradise, between the aqueous and the earth-born animals.
200 IV, 8 | Nazareth, to escape from Archelaus the son of Herod. This fact
201 IV, 7 | s nativity, kept in the archives of Rome? They certainly
202 III, 17 | is, the freshly-kindled ardour of the Gentiles. He can
203 V, 13 | Judge is implied an Avenger; area in the Avenger, the Creator.
204 I, 27 | circus, the bloodthirsty arena, and the lascivious theatre?
205 II, 27 | salvation of man. If I were arguing with heathens, I should
206 IV, 30 | which Isaiah said, "When He ariseth to shake terribly the earth?" "
207 III, 22 | revealed His Holy One with His arm, that is to say, Christ
208 IV, 39 | begin to be compassed with armies," He described the signs
209 III, 14 | wisdom, hostile to the devil, arming us against the spiritual
210 V, 19 | heretic, when it dreads to arouse the anger of God, and firmly
211 IV, 29 | in glory, and yet was not arrayed like" the humble flower.
212 II, 20 | there were due to them the arrears of that laborious slavery
213 IV, 1 | fathers in the day when I arrested their dispensation, in order
214 I, 6 | and in a certain sense arresting the meaning of our adversary,
215 IV, 39 | of the world indicate the arrival of that kingdom which they
216 I, 17 | not either any means of arriving at the knowledge of God,
217 IV, 34 | were punishments for the arrogance of wealth and the glory
218 IV, 33 | and upon every one that is arrogant and lifted up, and they
219 I, 8 | In the first place, how arrogantly do the Marcionites build
220 III, 14 | Christ is spread. "Thine arrows are sharp;" everywhere Thy
221 I, 21 | their teaching on this great article did not suffer at all; so
222 IV, 24 | tongue of the dumb shall be articulate." When, therefore, He proclaimed
223 V, 8 | gifts were to be sent: "He ascended up. on high," that is, into
224 V, 15 | has prepared for us this ascension into heaven, He must be
225 I, 3 | any other guise, than by ascribing to him too the property
226 IV, 14 | Sion, beauty (or glory) for ashes, and the oil of joy for
227 IV, 26 | whose am I also that am the asker? What, however, have I lost
228 IV, 16 | Give to every one that asketh of thee" to the indigent
229 IV, 39 | Him in either respect. For asmuch, then, as there is but one
230 I, 12 | malignity: of impudence, in aspiring after a belief which is
231 IV, 24 | on the hole of the young asps without at all receiving
232 II, 13 | incentives to evil were assailing him, would desire that good,
233 III, 11 | confirmed, when the means of the assault are destroyed. Therefore
234 III, 11 | points which this heresy assaults are confirmed, when the
235 IV, 7 | opposition to the Creator, by not asserting (such a fact). And thus
236 II, 20 | when they put forth such assertions and protestations as shall
237 IV, 36 | descent even from the recent assessments of Augustus, which were
238 IV, 7 | believed, even after the asseveration. It is, in short, too bad
239 V, 19 | separate the law and Christ, assigning one to one god and the other
240 IV, 41 | against your will to be assimilating your excellent god to Him.
241 IV, 19 | as disciples, and then as assistants and helpers: "Daughters,
242 IV, 36 | sustaining and nourishing and assisting even Marcionites themselves!
243 IV, 22 | MARCION INCONSISTENT IN ASSOCIATING WITH CHRIST IN GLORY TWO
244 IV, 10 | derived from body. You may, I assure you, more easily find a
245 I, 18 | very strongly addicted to astrology; nor do they blush to get
246 I, 9 | however, is the idolatry of Athens. And on uncertain gods;
247 II, 25 | cursed; but when he wished to atone for his sin by death, He
248 III, 7 | presented on "the great day of atonement," do they not also figure
249 IV, 19 | of the ear. If you only attach a proper, sense to the Creator'
250 IV, 26 | that he was (afterwards) attached to a cross at Jerusalem
251 I, 1pref | by a certain stigma which attaches to its barbarous character.
252 I, 25 | ancillary passions will be in attendance, against whatever objects
253 I, 23 | worthy of the other, for its attendant and companion. Since, therefore,
254 III, 13 | Christ was a warrior, not attending to the promise contained
255 IV, 38 | Now, He did not reject the attestation of those who had assumed
256 III, 24 | is a part of our belief, attests how it foretold that there
257 II, 10 | says he, were discovered, attributing to him those injuries wherewith
258 I, 23 | requirement of the undue is an augmentation of the due benevolence.
259 IV, 36 | commandments He both maintained and augmented with His own supplementary
260 I, 18 | from nature, and afterwards authenticated by instruction: from nature
261 IV, 2 | THE OTHER GOSPELS EQUALLY AUTHORITATIVE. MARCION'S TERMS OF DISCUSSION,
262 III, 1intro| Truth should employ all her available resources, and in no limping
263 V, 4 | Christ neither circumcisoin availeth anything, nor uncircumcision?
264 V, 12 | his own without perchance availing himself of the paradise
265 I, 25 | follows that this goodness avails nothing without its endowments,
266 I, 11 | unaware, as the Marcionites aver, of any god being above
267 V, 13 | His judgment. Marcion's averment is quite a different matter,
268 V, 12 | good and gracious, and so averse to blows and cruelty, should
269 II, 5 | the future, and able to avert evil, why did He permit
270 II, 26 | the deprecator, nay the averter, of His anger. "For," said
271 II, 17 | prefers mercy to sacrifice, averting from the Ninevites the ruin
272 IV, 28 | since it is Christ who averts blasphemy from the Creator,
273 II, 6 | evil by its spontaneous avoidance; because, were man even
274 V, 20 | cause of the diversity, he avoids inculpating the regular
275 IV, 7 | reported it, who seriously avouched the fact, which certainly
276 IV, 7 | have had in Proculus an avoucher of his ascent to heaven,
277 V, 8 | Here, then, is my frank avowal for any one who cares to
278 II, 14 | justice, God is therefore avowedly the creator. They are, no
279 IV, 39 | refer to such sufferings as await them from so many wars with
280 IV, 35 | contemplated, and which was now awaiting His own sufferings and rejection.
281 II, 20 | compensation should have been awarded to the Hebrews, but both
282 V, 16 | apostle proclaimed s as the awarder of both weal and woe, He
283 IV, 34 | Christ, and how that both awards of everlasting punishment
284 III, 24 | For why, as soon as he awoke out of his sleep, and shook
285 IV, 23 | of that false prophet (of Baalzebub). I recognise herein the
286 II, 20 | benches sit and exhibit their backs and shoulders shamefully
287 II, 16 | the practitioner who cuts badly, amputates clumsily, is
288 III, 6 | if in Its fulness It has baffled man's understanding, much
289 IV, 28 | when sent forth by king Balak to curse lsrael, with whom
290 II, 2 | may seem too fierce and baneful, or else, it may be, too
291 II, 2 | his material nature, and banished to the toil of tilling the
292 I, 28 | god) for the purpose of banishing those that sin against him,
293 III, 23 | dispersed, which is already in banishment? Restore to Judaea its former
294 IV, 11 | allow it; no one does he baptize but a coelebs or a eunuch;
295 III, 3 | utter this warning, is to bar and limit faith, He will
296 IV, 21 | of God, who ordered ten barley loaves which had been given
297 II, 10 | gold hast thou filled thy barns and thy treasuries. From
298 IV, 11 | authorities upon which they were based. Therefore Christ belonged
299 V, 5 | The forum spoke," and "The basilica murmured," are well-known
300 IV, 24 | Him: "Upon the asp and the basilisk shall Thou tread; the lion
301 IV, 14 | shall ye be, when men shall bate you, and shall reproach
302 IV, 18 | s feet with her kisses, bathed them with her tears, wiped
303 I, 1pref | which they suspend their battle-axes, and prefer warfare to marriage.
304 III, 14 | are the proper business of battles? Let us see, therefore,
305 III, 13 | with their gifts, and on beaded knee adored Him as their
306 IV, 17 | heretic ought to take the beam out of his own eye, and
307 III, 14 | Christ mighty in war, and a bearer of arms; thus also does
308 I, 8 | shoes, but their old master beats their strutting vanity out
309 I, 1pref | barbarous region. For what beaver was ever a greater emasculator
310 I, 14 | you can, the cells of the bee, the hills of the ant, the
311 V, 7 | take a cursory view of what befell the people (of Israel) he
312 IV, 8 | Christ alone to whom this was befitting, because He had sent beforehand
313 IV, 17 | in which He says of the before-mentioned just man, "He hath not given
314 V, 9 | Before the morning star did I beget thee from the womb," are
315 IV, 17 | He names me His son, not begetting me into natural life, but
316 IV, 31 | the hungry man; and the beggars even such as have no home
317 IV, 26 | man who went at night and begged for the loaves, in the light
318 IV, 30 | conjecture for men who are begging for arguments. I must, however,
319 II, 3 | to (I will not say) all beginnings and times, but to the very
320 IV, 18 | forgiveness of sins. The behaviour of "the woman which was
321 V, 13 | salvtion to every one that beheveth; to the Jew first, and also
322 III, 3 | comers, if He be found to be behindhand with the Creator, who had
323 V, 11 | been covered with a veil), "beholding Christ, are changed into
324 IV, 22 | Spirit, especially when he beholds the glory of God, or when
325 IV, 27 | be served. Thus would it behove the Creator's Christ to
326 IV, 35 | sufficient answer. But the believer knows that there is a pro-founder
327 V, 14 | righteousness to every one that believeth." Hereupon we shall be confronted
328 II, 20 | officers might on their benches sit and exhibit their backs
329 IV, 15 | have seen above, in the benedictions of the Creator: "Behold,
330 IV, 12 | case did a work which was beneficial to the life of His disciples,
331 II, 4 | die." For it was a most benignant act of His thus to point
332 IV, 10 | Creator examples of such a benignity as would hold out to me
333 IV, 17 | s hands should have felt benumbed in their adulterating labour.
334 IV, 5 | Peter and Paul conjointly bequeathed the gospel even sealed with
335 I, 23 | than that a good thing bereft of all reasonable quality
336 II, 10 | topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper,
337 V, 17 | Glory." From Him also is besought "the spirit of wisdom,""
338 V, 13 | HELP USING PHRASES WHICH BESPEAK THE JUSTICE OF GOD, EVEN
339 IV, 15 | Marcion, after so long a time, bestirred himself to destroy. I suppose,
340 II, 23 | else wanting in foresight, bestowing approbation on men who ought
341 IV, 3 | that Peter also might have betaken himself to the same plan
342 IV, 7 | deity, whereby he might betoken for "the holy one" of the
343 IV, 11 | was from idolatry that He betrothed Himself the church. Deny
344 II, 24 | such as acknowledged and bewailed their sins, as the Ninevites
345 IV, 20 | wholly ceased to run at the bidding of Joshua, when his priests
346 IV, 16 | he would have left to me, binding me to no proper rule of
347 II, 25 | His hand as if it were a bird's nest, and to whom heaven
348 I, 10 | of his writings, yet the birthday of that knowledge must not
349 IV, 5 | Apocalypse, the orders of the bishops (thereof), when traced up
350 III, 18 | proclaimed a cure from the bite of sin, and health for evermore?~
351 III, 18 | also to every man who was bitten by spiritual serpents, but
352 IV, 21 | declaiming with all the bitterness in their power against the
353 IV, 42 | clothe the heavens with blackness." This will be the day,
354 V, 15 | and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
355 II, 24 | even on this argument be blameworthy, for having repented of
356 III, 14 | amuses me to imagine that blandishments of fair beauty and graceful
357 I, 28 | charged with brimstone, as for blasphemers against Himself; except
358 IV, 26 | he does not pray; he only blasphemes. In like manner, from whom
359 I, 1pref | is mangled by Marcion's blasphemies. Marcion is more savage
360 V, 13 | himself blaspheme Him for blaspheming whom he upbraids them as
361 IV, 40 | therein, He represents the bleeding condition of His flesh under
362 I, 14 | poisonous ejections of the blister-beetle, the spikes of the fly,
363 IV, 19 | transferred the names of blood-relationship to others, whom He judged
364 I, 27 | the maddening circus, the bloodthirsty arena, and the lascivious
365 V, 5 | than God's requirement of bloody sacrifices and of savoury
366 III, 20 | was to be the fruit, which bloomed forth from Mary's womb.
367 III, 17 | the stem of Jesse." His blooming flower shall be my Christ,
368 II, 9 | act of your own, such as blowing into a flute, you would
369 IV, 23 | request of Elias, inflicts the blowof fire from heaven in the
370 I, 2 | evil, his perception became blunted by the very irregularity
371 III, 6 | and I heal them." Now this blunting of their sound senses they
372 V, 8 | also, that any woman of boastful tongue in his community
373 IV, 9 | at last they left their boats, and followed Him, understanding
374 I, 27 | being good, why do you not boil over into every kind of
375 IV, 10 | you in your difficulty: boldness on your part either to surname
376 V | CHRIST. AS IN THE PRECEDING BOOKS, TERTULLIAN SUPPORTS HIS
377 II, 3 | issuing m some accidental boon or in some excited impulse,
378 IV, 42 | garments? If you take it as a booty for your false Christ, still
379 IV, 40 | that cometh from Edom, from Bosor with garments dyed in red,
380 IV, 26 | still standing, with its boundaries, and laws, and functions,
381 II, 4 | blessings, from His indulgent bounties, from His gracious providences,
382 III, 20 | proceed," says he, "out of thy bowels." Now, if you explain this
383 IV, 21 | had not felt ashamed when bowing down to a stone or a stock,
384 IV, 39 | blood which flow in war by bowlfuls, nor limits it to what is
385 IV, 39 | and they shall fill the bowls as it were of the altar.
386 III, 5 | wilderness the cedar and the box-tree." In like manner, when,
387 IV, 21 | long an infant; gradually a boy; by slow degrees a man.
388 IV, 11 | about the old bottles, and brain-muddled with the new wine; and therefore
389 II, 4 | clown, he has grafted a good branch on a bad stock. The sapling,
390 II, 7 | Let Him choose where to brand Himself with error, either
391 I, 20 | wished to have recognised, branding as false both apostles and
392 III, 14 | warrior, and the sword he brandishes is an allegorical one, then
393 I, 19 | Marcion, the author of the breach of peace between the gospel
394 IV, 15 | from Babylon, (the Creator) breaks forth against him by the
395 III, 14 | truth, and puts on us the breastplate of righteousness, and shoes
396 III, 13 | Samaria from His mother's breasts! It is a different matter,
397 II, 20 | slavery of theirs, for the bricks they had so painfully made,
398 IV, 11 | with them all, as with a bridal ornament." This spouse Christ
399 II, 18 | continence, and recognise in it a bridle imposed on that appetite
400 I, 29 | does poverty afford? What bridling of lust can the eunuch merit?
401 IV, 10 | putting in a veto in the briefest possible terms, on the substance
402 IV, 10 | that of the Lord, as the brighter. Concerning the forgiveness
403 II, 2 | Himself, but always shone out brightly, even before the time of
404 I, 28 | hell doubly charged with brimstone, as for blasphemers against
405 IV, 21 | disgrace of His birth and bringing-up, and the unworthiness of
406 IV, 8 | taken and led to the very brink of a precipice. For although
407 I, 1pref | colder than its winter, more brittle than its ice, more deceitful
408 II, 13 | without danger? You read bow broad is the road to evil, how
409 IV, 14 | hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted." "Blessed are they that
410 I, 5 | swarm of divine essences, a brood of no less than thirty AEgons,
411 I, 2 | proclivity), while morbidly brooding over the question of the
412 I, 22 | is ignorant of, or else brooks. Is it that he might on
413 V, 14 | affectioned one to another with brotherly love." Now is not this of
414 IV, 25 | reckoned them "as the drop of a bucket," while "Sion He left as
415 V, 12 | either, but the Creator's "to buffet" the apostle, and then to
416 V, 6 | professed Himself to be the builder up of an earthly work, that
417 III, 24 | Of this Amos says: "He buildeth His ascensions into heaven;"
418 II, 22 | will not eat the flesh of bulls;" and in another passage: "
419 IV, 23 | the law, commanded that burials of parents should be neglected
420 IV, 23 | s burial, "Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou
421 IV, 35 | Himself such by His acts, to busy Himself with inquiries into
422 I, 5 | once imagined two deities, Bythos and Sige, poured forth a
423 I, 7 | of kings your Alexanders, Caesars, and Pompeys! This fact,
424 IV, 27 | their neighbour of his own; cajoling the people, loving gifts,
425 III, 5 | would ever gather Samian cakes from the ground; nor does
426 IV, 7 | and deprecating his own calamity; at the prospect of which
427 II, 26 | their consecration of the calf, He makes this request of
428 IV, 20 | at His rebuke the sea is calmed, Nahum is also verified:
429 IV, 16 | thereby teaches that patience calmly waits for the infliction
430 I, 16 | hatred; now anger, then calmness. Since this is the case,
431 II | OR DEMIURGE, WHOM MARCION CALUMNIATED, IS THE TRUE AND GOOD GOD.~
432 V, 13 | through fear from openly calumniating God, from whom notwithstanding
433 III, 7 | by the people out of the camp into the wilderness, amid
434 IV, 20 | spiritual enemies, in spiritual campaigns, and with spiritual weapons:
435 IV, 10 | unto him, "The Lord hath cancelled thy sin, and thou shalt
436 II, 7 | unstable, and faithless Lord, cancelling the gifts He had bestowed!
437 II, 25 | Adam and Eve, for they were candidates for restoration, and they
438 IV, 27 | it ought to be set upon a candlestick, that it may give light
439 V, 11 | open face" (meaning the candour of the heart, which in the
440 V, 19 | HERESY. APPLICATION OF THE CANON. THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE
441 IV, 30 | to leaven. Now this is a capital conjecture for men who are
442 V, 16 | a lie those who are not captivated with truth. If, however,
443 IV, 40 | quite as easily have been captured by force as taken by treachery?
444 I, 1pref | up their quivers on their car-yokes, to warn off the curious
445 II, 10 | sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle; and with gold hast thou
446 V, 1intro| contraband goods or smuggler's cargo, if you have never thrown
447 IV, 22 | question between us and the carnally-minded. Now, it is no difficult
448 I, 25 | and affections whereby it carries out its purpose against
449 I, 9 | these two titles shall we carve for Marcion's god? Both,
450 IV, 10 | mythic stories assign to Castor or to Hercules. Now, if
451 IV, 17 | all men, as (Marcion's) castrated deity, who is the maker
452 V, 1intro| mentioned in the Gospel in the catalogue, of the apostles. Indeed,
453 V, 7 | will say nothing about his catechumens), and when he prescribes
454 I, 9 | placed them in a different category. They are subsequent in
455 IV, 34 | the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery."
456 II, 16 | instruments, because they cut, or cauterize, or amputate, or tighten;
457 II, 16 | clumsily, is rash in his cautery; and even blame his implements
458 II, 5 | would not have proclaimed a caution against it under the penalty
459 III, 6 | but from the Pontic, which cautioned him against believing that
460 III, 13 | thing. Then, again, Jewish cavillers, in order to disconcert
461 I, 6 | another Supreme Being. For He ceases (to be Supreme), if He becomes
462 I, 3 | having no equal, and so not ceasing to be the great Supreme.
463 III, 5 | plant in the wilderness the cedar and the box-tree." In like
464 IV, 9 | both in order that he might celebrate the expiation of a perfect
465 I, 14 | imitate, if you can, the cells of the bee, the hills of
466 I, 27 | also do you not, when the censer is presented, at once redeem
467 V, 12 | weakness?" How is it that the censurer of the Galatians still retains
468 IV, 6 | drawing up of his Antitheses, centres in this, that he may establish
469 I, 8 | no one through such long centuries back, and ancient in men'
470 IV, 4 | which is the later one a century later than the publication
471 V, 7 | whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life,
472 IV, 35 | come of faith without the ceremony of the law. Whence also,
473 V, 18 | the Conqueror throw into chains? For when by David Christ
474 IV, 21 | He destroyed those of the Chaldaeans, when they had preferred
475 I, 6 | condition of the Godhead. Now, challenging, and in a certain sense
476 IV, 11 | bridegroom coming out of his chamber; His going forth is from
477 IV, 16 | be nothing else than the chance-medley of my own sentiments which
478 IV, 13 | for the same. Again, He changes the name of Simon to peter,
479 I, 1pref | MARCION, A NATIVE. HIS HERESY CHARACTERIZED IN A BRIEF INVECTIVE.~WHATEVER
480 IV, 6 | defect of blindness, which characterizes heresy, than he displayed
481 III, 13 | not on horseback, or in chariot, or from parapet, but from
482 V, 8 | gratuities, which we call charismata. He says specifically "sons
483 V, 14 | OUR REAL BODIES. A WIDE CHASM MADE IN THE EPISTLE BY MARCION'
484 V, 12 | espouses the church as a chaste virgin to Christ," a spouse
485 II, 18 | are usually chilled by the chastening of the appetite. For "the
486 II, 13 | its judgment, whatever it chastises by its condemnation, whatever (
487 IV, 15 | than it is of that god who chastizes no man for even his own
488 III, 5 | back to the smiters, and my cheeks (I exposed) to their hands.
489 I, 1pref | never clear, the sun never cheerful; the sky is uniformly cloudy;
490 V, 3 | law of the Creator, which cherished the poor and needy, as has
491 V, 18 | alone), "but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord doth
492 III, 18 | forth by types, and indeed chiefly by that method: for in proportion
493 III, 13 | occurrence, the pregnancy and child-bearing of a young woman. A virgin
494 IV, 20 | functions every month, and in childbirth, not that which was the
495 IV, 34 | occasion of the brother dying childless, when it even prescribed
496 II, 18 | luxury, which are usually chilled by the chastening of the
497 IV, 20 | concourse of its waters the chivalry of Egypt is engulphed! To
498 II, 24 | being at that moment the choicest man, so that (as He says)
499 IV, 29 | from demanding fire on the churlish village. Whereas He burnt
500 IV, 24 | with them. But if their churlishness and inhospitality were to