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501 V, 4 | even these, no less than of cicumcision, was appointed by the Creator'
502 V, 13 | heart,"-the Spirit which circumcises the heart will proceed from
503 V, 4 | that "in Christ neither circumcisoin availeth anything, nor uncircumcision?
504 V, 7 | Marcion, when you make him circumscribed at all by the Creator's
505 II, 6 | were man even otherwise circumstanced, it was yet his bounden
506 II, 20 | Come, unhappy heretic, I cite even you as a witness; first
507 V, 6 | could not possibly have cited the authority of that God
508 III, 24 | declaring that our politeuma, or citizenship, is in heaven, he predicates
509 I, 1pref | their life has no germ of civilisation; they indulge their libidinous
510 I, 1pref | it severed from our more civilised waters by a certain stigma
511 I, 20 | defended by us against the clamours of the opposite side. For
512 IV, 36 | divided into tribes and clans, and families and houses,
513 IV, 19 | that certain rich women clave to Christ, "which ministered
514 II, 2 | HERESY.~We have now, then, cleared our way to the contemplation
515 II, 25 | proceed to the explanation and clearing up of the other trifles,
516 IV, 39 | rivers shall the earth be cleaved; the nations shall see thee,
517 IV, 17 | Well done, Marcion! how cleverly have you withdrawn from
518 III, 23 | were until John, but the clews of divine grace were withdrawn
519 I, 1pref | warfare to marriage. In their climate, too, there is the same
520 V, 13 | presented the letter also which clips the desh; and "the Jew which
521 I, 18 | Romulus did Consus, and Tatius Cloacina, and Hostilius Fear, and
522 I, 13 | and so with much ingenuity cloaks its own disgrace, figuratively
523 IV, 42 | even that "tongue which clove to His jaws," as the Psalm
524 II, 4 | But, like a most clumsy clown, he has grafted a good branch
525 II, 16 | who cuts badly, amputates clumsily, is rash in his cautery;
526 II, 4 | excellent tree. But, like a most clumsy clown, he has grafted a
527 III, 16 | just as the pickpocket clutches the dole-basket, why did
528 I, 5 | two supreme beings, two co-ordinate powers? What numerical difference
529 II, 11 | to life; thenceforth with coats of skins, but before, nakedness
530 IV, 24 | putting their hand in the cockatrice den and on the hole of the
531 IV, 11 | one does he baptize but a coelebs or a eunuch; until death
532 IV, 5 | apostles, they were prior, and coeval in origin with the churches
533 IV, 17 | long, then, were the Jews cognisant of no other god but Him,
534 I, 28 | every appointment, I see no coherence and consistency; no, not
535 III, 15 | if there should be found coincident with their (diverse) dispensations
536 I, 1pref | Taurians, and the loves of the Colchians, and the torments of the
537 I, 1pref | than the cloud, (of Pontus) colder than its winter, more brittle
538 V, 18 | LANGUAGE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. COLLATION OF MANY PASSAGES OF THIS
539 II, 27 | thus far been engaged in collecting, as mean, weak, and unworthy,
540 IV, 9 | affected to choose from the college of shipmasters, intending
541 V, 19 | XIX. THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS. TIME THE CRITERION OF TRUTH
542 IV, 12 | Christ, there is derived a colourable precedent as from the example
543 III, 10 | by means of a cloud and column, and in representations
544 III, 8 | error of the flesh, could he combine within himself that communion
545 V, 12 | deed, an image cannot be combined and compared with what is
546 IV, 5 | s swarm. Even wasps make combs; so also these Marcionites
547 I, 16 | strong, others weak; some comely, others uncomely; some twofold,
548 IV, 15 | riches even rich men are comforted and assisted; moreover,
549 V, 11 | to be punctuated with a comma after God, to this effect: "
550 IV, 20 | manner of man is this? for He commandeth even the winds and water!"
551 IV, 39 | and will at the same time commence the other by fulfilling
552 I, 5 | one. After unity, number commences. So, again, the same principle
553 IV, 28 | lsrael, with whom he was commencing war, was at the same moment
554 V, 18 | injunction, and adds even a comment on it: "For this cause shall
555 IV | MAY ALSO BE REGARDED AS A COMMENTARY ON ST. LUKE. IT GIVES REMARKABLE
556 III, 2 | Sender, if any, purposely commissioning Him. Everything will be
557 II, 27 | intercourse with (men); actually communed with patriarchs and prophets;
558 I, 25 | quiescent state, not caring to communicate any knowledge of himself
559 IV, 9 | the taint of sins would be communicated as if contagious: wherever
560 III, 8 | combine within himself that communion of light and darkness, or
561 V, 8 | and divers members to the compacting together of the various
562 I, 4 | circumstances are always comparable with divine ones. Now, if
563 IV, 14 | so much of the Creator's compassionate regard, shall be given that
564 IV, 31 | then inviting, when already compelling to his banquet; appointing
565 IV, 17 | Recompenser of merits, then He compels our submission to Him, in
566 IV, 42 | Christ, still all the Psalm (compensates) the vesture of Christ.
567 I, 11 | SHOULD AT LEAST BE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH THE FULL EVIDENCE OF
568 II, 29 | two characters are only competently found in God. Indeed, the
569 IV, 1 | entitled Antitheses, and compiled with a view to such a severance
570 IV, 23 | with us, that you should be complaining of the delay? On what points
571 IV, 3 | distinguished. When Marcion complains that apostles are suspected (
572 III, 24 | within which period is completed the resurrection of the
573 II, 7 | and truth, in having given completeness to His creatures both as
574 III, 12 | has called Him Emmanuel, completing the sound in its sense.
575 IV, 28 | requested by a certain man to compose a strife between him and
576 V, 15 | TESTAMENT BY CHRIST. MAN'S COMPOUND NATURE.~I shall not be sorry
577 V, 1intro| admit the particulars which comprise it. If you challenge us
578 V, 17 | commonwealth of Israel, which comprises the religion of the divine
579 II, 2 | ways past finding out," as comprising an understanding and knowledge
580 IV, 34 | away his wife. Now, if a compulsory marriage contracted after
581 IV, 25 | who was not previously the concealer; so neither will any be
582 IV, 25 | consistently meet. For He conceals by His preparatory apparatus
583 II, 10 | and at the same time, by conceding a permission for the operation
584 I, 4 | supreme authorities, the concentration of authority must necessarily,
585 I, 25 | duty to have developed his conceptions into some imperturbable
586 II, 6 | which are always found in concert in our God. For His purpose
587 IV, 9 | destroying the law, when he makes concessions to the keepers of the law.
588 V, 3 | of the law, deserved this concessive treatment, when even the
589 V, 19 | they had at last returned? Conciliated they might have been to
590 IV, 16 | was to make (or utter) a concise word on earth."~
591 I, 20 | joined hands in perfect concord, and had agreed also in
592 IV, 20 | its strength, and in the concourse of its waters the chivalry
593 V, 9 | unless our revival in Christ concur in identity of substance
594 IV, 36 | discipline of prayer whether condemnatory of pride, or justifying
595 II, 9 | its forbidder, nay, its condemner. If death is the evil, death
596 V, 4 | this one precept! But this condensation of the law is, in fact,
597 V, 14 | Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be
598 IV, 15 | and simply. For see how he condescends to curse, and proves himself
599 II, 27 | OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. GOD'S CONDESCENSION IN THE INCARNATION NOTHING
600 I, 29 | exquisite a daintiness, they conduce to gluttony; nor is raiment
601 II, 29 | oppose Christ to the Creator, conduces all the more to their union.
602 III, 24 | Christ, which admits and conducts to glory. Of this Amos says: "
603 V, 18 | really and truly a warrior confest to the eye. Learn then now,
604 V, 8 | graces. This, too, I may confidently say: he who has likened
605 III, 24 | destruction of the world and the conflagration of all things at the judgment:
606 IV, 24 | then manfested it forth conformably to the order of prophecy.~
607 II, 27 | to be convinced that God conformed Himself to humanity, but
608 III, 8 | How, moreover, when he confounds the truth of the spirit
609 V, 5 | Creator) in the process of confusing opposites by their opposites,
610 III, 4 | encountered the one with a confutation, the other to have forborne
611 IV, 38 | David did not literally confute an error of the Scribes,
612 IV, 4 | for the purpose of such a conglomeration with it of the law and the
613 III, 22 | Psalm He says again: "In the congregations bless ye the Lord God."
614 II, 24 | stigmas pertains to these, congruous as they are with God's judicial
615 I, 18 | revelation been made? If by man's conjectural guesses, do not say that
616 IV, 19 | sense they choose by their conjectures, or else they violently
617 IV, 5 | to whom Peter and Paul conjointly bequeathed the gospel even
618 III, 9 | not issuing as yet from conjugal seed, was equally able to
619 IV, 11 | possible by help of the conjunction through which it is made.
620 IV, 11 | WINE AND THE NEW. ARGUMENTS CONNECTING CHRIST WITH THE CREATOR.~
621 III, 14 | reigning, from the fact that He conquered death by His resurrection. "
622 V, 1intro| are still more careful and conscientious, I doubt not, in divine
623 I, 5 | two, I should be equally conscious of seeming to pour contempt
624 II, 25 | concealing himself from the consciousness of his sin, and to bring
625 IV, 40 | the wine. Thus did He now consecrate His blood in wine, who then (
626 II, 26 | against the people for their consecration of the calf, He makes this
627 III, 6 | therefrom, that, by mutual consent, the point of discussion
628 IV, 42 | same Joseph "who had not consented" with the Jews in their
629 III, 4 | OF PROPHECY. THE ABSURD CONSEQUENCES OF THIS THEORY OF THE HERETIC.~
630 I, 26 | declared his unwillingness, and consequent prohibition of it? For he
631 V, 7 | how prescient already, and considerate in warning Christians who
632 IV, 23 | voluntarily invites, so does He consign to perdition him whom He
633 V, 11 | all these things have been consigned to the said "earthen vessels"
634 V, 19 | on the ground of their consisting of the resources of subtle
635 V, 12 | TERTULLIAN OF THE APOSTLE'S CONSOLATORY TEACHING AGAINST THE FEAR
636 IV, 14 | of the same sort loved, consoled, protected, and avenged
637 III, 20 | a virgin's condition to consort her with a husband, He therefore
638 V, 5 | the matter, it being of constant recurrence, and in the same
639 I, 13 | the said world, lest its constituent elements, great as they
640 V, 4 | succession of times which constitutes an age; who also ordained,
641 II, 11 | and by the same rule are constrained to class justice amongst
642 III, 6 | cause with Jewish error, and construct their arguments with its
643 II, 1 | process, however, is like constructing a house without preparing
644 IV, 43conc| what need of so tortuous a construction, when He might have simply
645 IV, 25 | the lengthened life, when consuited about the temporal life
646 IV, 2 | to Jerusalem to know and consult the apostles, "lest he should
647 II, 28 | body was unreal. Many were consumed by the severity of my God.
648 IV, 22 | Testament, the other the consummator of the New? Well therefore
649 III, 23 | finishes a prophecy of their consumption by fire: "Because of me
650 I, 18 | devise a god, as Romulus did Consus, and Tatius Cloacina, and
651 IV, 9 | would be communicated as if contagious: wherever a man should mix
652 III, 19 | able to afford it to you, containing as it does the entire passion
653 II, 14 | man, although the wilful contemner of the divine law, unjustly
654 V, 14 | has no riches for him to contemplate? So poor and indigent was
655 IV, 35 | which His answer to them had contemplated, and which was now awaiting
656 IV, 40 | winepress?" The prophetic Spirit contemplates the Lord as if He were already
657 I, 15 | unbegotten, and unmade, and contemporaneous with God, just as Marcion
658 IV, 19 | now, does a mother live on contemporaneously with her sons in every case?
659 V, 20 | of God, if, (as Marcion contends,) He is not truly man because
660 II, 28 | straightforward virtue of truth is contented with few resources. Many
661 IV, 28 | wish in a similar case of contentious brothers, to confound them
662 IV, 14 | THE MOUNT. IN MANNER AND CONTENTS IT SO RESEMBLES THE CREATOR'
663 III, 12 | you ought to look into the contexts of the two passages. For
664 II, 16 | needs use, because of all contingencies; as many sensations as there
665 V, 1intro| board your small craft any contraband goods or smuggler's cargo,
666 IV, 35 | on his account shalt not contract sin." Nor is it to be wondered
667 V, 7 | continence, yet permits the contraction of marriage and the enjoyment
668 IV, 35 | THE CREATOR, ASSERTED IN CONTRADICTION TO MARCION. THE CURE OF
669 II, 21 | fickleness and instability for contradictions in His commandments, such
670 I, 19 | Marcion's Antitheses, or contradictory propositions, which aim
671 I, 29 | their evidence in their contraries. Just as "strength is made
672 IV, 16 | railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing; and which, so
673 V, 11 | manifested in our body," as a contrast to the preceding, that His
674 IV, 15 | own goodness, invidiously contrasted with it the Creator's severity?
675 IV, 21 | when his servitor, after contrasting the large number of the
676 III, 20 | prejudice which has, by contributing to diversity of opinion,
677 II, 20 | resources of these and by the contributions of all the people. If, therefore,
678 IV, 26 | lightning just as it was by Him contrived that he was (afterwards)
679 II, 11 | goodness (unless justice be so controlled as to be just) will not
680 II, 27 | more tolerable than Jewish contumelies, and crosses, and sepulchres?
681 III, 11 | Creator's angels when they conversed in flesh which was real,
682 III, 6 | understand with the heart, and be converted, and I heal them." Now this
683 III, 14 | Thy threatenings also, and convictions of heart, pricking and piercing
684 II, 27 | no longer require to be convinced that God conformed Himself
685 V, 6 | him whom He was unable to cope with. The inevitable inference,
686 IV, 3 | true record; and if our own copies have been made from these,
687 III, 23 | strenuously maintained that His corpse had been stolen, "and the
688 III, 11 | sometimes, when they are corpulent either from their natural
689 IV, 8 | Tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla potest res," is even
690 IV, 18 | meaning) refrained from correcting them even in their very
691 IV, 17 | to have remembered this a corrector of Marcion, although his
692 V, 7 | the apostle's conclusion corresponds to the beginning: "Now all
693 V, 5 | practice plainly enough to have corroborated the declaration of the Creator: "
694 IV, 24 | also presents us with a corroboration, for He judges that labouring
695 II, 16 | grieved, He must therefore be corrupted, and must therefore die.
696 II, 16 | rendered just as corrupt by the corruptibility of man's substance, as in
697 IV, 4 | mending the Gospels, and corrupting them in the act, is an affair
698 IV, 39 | course; into light shall thy coruscations go; and thy shield shall
699 IV, 15 | anoint themselves with the costliest ointments." Therefore, even
700 I, 29 | blamed, because, when too costlily adorned, it becomes inflated
701 IV, 31 | realize; "Sion being left as a cottages in a vineyard, as a lodge
702 IV, 15 | stretch themselves upon their couches; who eat the kids from the
703 IV, 16 | against his neighbour." He who counselled that an injury should be
704 II, 20 | vessels. The Hebrews assert a counter claim, alleging that by
705 IV, 16 | is no doubt implied its counterpart: "And as ye would not that
706 I, 16 | author than Him to whom their counterparts are imputed, marking as
707 V, 1intro| One man signs, another countersigns; one man appends his seal,
708 III, 24 | the names of places and countries, hope for just as it is
709 V, 20 | also the things "which he counts but dung for the excellency
710 V, 8 | has already shown when he covers the woman that prophesies
711 IV, 33 | the Pharisees, who were covetous of riches, derided Him,
712 IV, 8 | that the evil spirits were cowed. Therefore they confessed
713 V, 1intro| taken on board your small craft any contraband goods or
714 III, 6 | shipmaster of course got his craft-wisdom not from the Rhodian law,
715 V, 6 | taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and again, The Lord knoweth
716 I, 1pref | deceitful than the Ister, more craggy than Caucasus. Nay more,
717 II, 18 | while eating angels' food, craved after the cucumbers and
718 II, 3 | HIS GOODNESS SHOWN IN HIS CREATIVE ENERGY; BUT EVERLASTING
719 V, 1intro| said not to belong to the Creator-nay, is displayed as in actual
720 V, 5 | very Old Testament of the Creators itself, it is possible,
721 IV, 23 | this moment you show us no credentials. How long since did you
722 IV, 3 | secure for his own Gospel the credit which he takes away from
723 III, 6 | and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know;
724 V, 15 | have placed the impious crimes on the same level, instead
725 II, 24 | present instance no fault of a criminating nature will be imputed to
726 IV, 24 | faith he promises this utter crippling and subjugation of all noxious
727 V, 12 | these also shall, in the crisis of the last moment, and
728 IV, 41 | suffer, that He at that critical moment refrained from proclaiming
729 II, 1 | reverentially rather than handled critically, or even dreaded for His
730 II, 2 | except it may be those critics of the Divine Being, who
731 II, 14 | worshipping the ibis and the crocodile in preference to the living
732 I, 13 | the earth, mowed as to its crops, ploughed up with lusty
733 II, 27 | Jewish contumelies, and crosses, and sepulchres? Are these
734 IV, 20 | fact, accomplished by this crossing over the lake. "The Lord,"
735 III, 23 | thorns" wherewith it had crowned the Lord, and "instead of
736 V, 18 | it, and honouring it and crowning it. The likeness partakes
737 IV, 29 | concerning which neither the crows nor the lilies labour, because,
738 IV, 42 | TO JESUS. DETAILS OF THE CRUCIFIXION. THE EARTHQUAKE AND THE
739 V, 6 | the Creator did knowingly crucify the God of glory in His
740 IV, 18 | compare what was hitherto crude, nay, I might say, hitherto
741 I, 24 | deprived of marriage, is cruelly tortured in confession.
742 IV, 40 | reddened in the treading and crushing process of the wine-press,
743 IV, 27 | rue and the cleansing of cups. But, in truth, He would
744 IV, 16 | vengeance all iniquity is curbed. But if licence is allowed
745 IV, 35 | abasement of the Creator in curing only one, and the pre-eminence
746 IV, 15 | severity in the sequel of His curses; thus fully developing His
747 V, 2 | of the Creator. He then cursorily touches on his own conversion
748 V, 7 | For, being about to take a cursory view of what befell the
749 II, 16 | please, the practitioner who cuts badly, amputates clumsily,
750 II, 20 | MATTER.~But these "saucy cuttles" (of heretics) under the
751 I, 19 | KNOWN BY THE HERETIC SOME CXV. YEARS AFTER CHRIST, AND
752 IV, 15 | in man." Whereas in Ps. cxvii. it is said: "It is better
753 I, 1pref | than to Christians. For the cynic Diogenes used to go about,
754 I, 29 | up with too exquisite a daintiness, they conduce to gluttony;
755 I, 26 | of rivalry, or anger, or damage, or injury, as one who refrains
756 II, 20 | demand for even greater damages, insisting that, however
757 IV, 29 | unbelievers? Will it not be damnation? Else, if these severed
758 I, 24 | man to salvation? Totally damned by the Creator, he should
759 IV, 34 | married after violence to a damsel, should thenceforth not
760 II, 16 | but not irritated, nor dangerously tempted; He will be moved,
761 V, 13 | the law what His apostle dares not impute even to the law
762 IV, 8 | with the stains of sin, and darkened with the clouds of ignorance.
763 I, 1pref | audacious than an Amazon, darker than the cloud, (of Pontus)
764 III, 14 | to quench all the fiery darts of the devil, and the helmet
765 II, 3 | impulse, such as must be dated simply from the moment when
766 IV, 43conc| women who resorted before day-break to the sepulchre with the
767 IV, 22 | the Creator; as then to dazzle the eyes of the children
768 IV, 34 | the Scripture itself which dazzles his sight expressly distinguishes
769 II, 24 | that the creature deserve dcondemnation, and ought to be punished
770 III, 24 | another work, which we entitle De Spe Fidelium. At present,
771 IV, 9 | the stains of the seven deadly sins: idolatry, blasphemy,
772 IV, 21 | recommended by Christ, was dearly attested by the opinion
773 IV, 33 | office, relieves his lord's debtors by lessening their debts
774 IV, 33 | debtors by lessening their debts with a view to their recompensing
775 II, 19 | name in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour, he shall
776 III, 9 | who can neither lie nor deceive, and because (angelic beings)
777 V, 16 | fitting attribute, which deceives with a lie those who are
778 I, 1pref | self-contradictory in its nature, and deceptive in its name. As you would
779 IV, 21 | except in a case which is decided by judicial process; and
780 IV, 34 | passage to another end, and decides that both the torment and
781 IV, 21 | the taunts of heretics, declaiming with all the bitterness
782 IV, 39 | of the prophets and the declarations of the Lord, it will be
783 III, 6 | and createth the wind, and declareth unto man His Christ," as
784 V, 7 | this writ. ten." Still he declined to use this power which
785 V, 1intro| which means that in his declining years he would educate the
786 III, 5 | from the stones, or its decoction from the rocks; and also
787 IV, 14 | first fiat or the final dedication of the universe: for "my
788 IV, 17 | them than if we were to deduce out of them two gods, according
789 V, 17 | Creator there is yet to be deduced another god and another
790 V, 20 | AND THE GOD OF THE GOSPEL DEDUCIBLE FROM CERTAIN CONTRASTS MENTIONED
791 II, 7 | You ought, however, to deduct from God's attributes both
792 II, 2 | thoughts about God from the deductions of sense; just as if some
793 IV, 39 | waters with thy step; the deep uttered its voice; the height
794 I, 27 | he dislikes rather than deeply examine it! This will turn
795 IV, 15 | which has for its prop the defamation of another. And yet by thus
796 I, 2 | acknowledge, he destroyed by defaming his attributes in the matter
797 II, 9 | to say, God Himself, with default. And now comes the question.
798 I, 9 | appear to you to be justly defensible, that uncertainties should
799 II, 14 | good, as being just and defensive of good and hostile to sin.
800 III, 18 | now mainly inquiring, I defer to consider, because in
801 II, 10 | purpose of His own goodness, deferring the devil's destruction
802 V, 6 | temple. But "if any man defile the temple of God, he shall
803 IV, 35 | and extinguisher of the defilements of mankind. However, what
804 IV, 34 | the prophets; whilst he defines the heavenly bosom and harbour
805 II, 27 | propound them in a simple and definite statement: that God would
806 I, 29 | existence at all, both by our definitions of the one only Godhead,
807 III, 7 | obscure in its types, and as deformed with every kind of indignity,
808 V, 7 | which is another's. You degrade your god, O Marcion, when
809 II, 27 | humiliation as was indeed degrading to Himself, but necessary
810 IV, 21 | gradually a boy; by slow degrees a man. But he was revealed
811 IV, 41 | sentence "Ergo tu fulius Dei es" inter-rogatively, and
812 I, 8 | new title for each several deification. What new god is there,
813 I, 22 | and prolong the danger by delaying his prescription, in order
814 IV, 15 | upon beds of ivory, and deliciously stretch themselves upon
815 II, 19 | happy, than having "his delight in the law of the Lord?" "
816 IV, 10 | against them, because He delighteth in mercy. He will turn again,
817 IV, 12 | declared them to be "true, and delightful, and inviolable." Thus Christ
818 I, 27 | good. He indeed forbids all delinquency, but only in word. He is
819 II, 25 | simulated on this account, that delinquent man should not be unaware
820 I, 23 | beneath his stripes? Such a deliverer, I had almost said kidnapper,
821 II, 19 | righteous, but the Lord delivereth them out of them all." "
822 IV, 39 | of Moses, so that He who delivers from "the snare" of that
823 IV, 25 | is, all nations, then the delivery of even these to the Son
824 V, 3 | the subjection that was demanded, if these false brethren
825 II | SHOWS THAT THE CREATOR, OR DEMIURGE, WHOM MARCION CALUMNIATED,
826 II, 1 | He found it necessary to demolish some other thing, in order
827 II, 27 | weak, and unworthy, for demolishing the Creator, I will propound
828 V, 2 | of his gospel, by rather demonstrating this, than by insisting
829 IV, 1 | at once with a peremptory demurrer, yet, in order that I may
830 I, 25 | suggests, though Epicurus demurs. For he raised up an adversary
831 IV, 24 | their hand in the cockatrice den and on the hole of the young
832 IV, 28 | confessing Him: "Every one that denieth me before men shall be denied
833 II, 10 | very author of sin who was denoted in the person of a sinful
834 IV, 16 | Accordingly, when He uttered such denunciations as, "Thou shalt do no murder;
835 III, 22 | which was from God. By thus departing from Judaism itself, when
836 I, 4 | and separate in their own departments; and may even adduce, as
837 IV, 22 | Christ, in consequence of the departure of the old covenant and
838 II, 19 | MEANT TO KEEP THE PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON GOD. THE PROPHETS SENT
839 IV, 7 | to do with Thee?" as if deploring himself, and deprecating
840 IV, 20 | now that the Creator is deposed, and excluded from their
841 IV, 34 | decreed by that God, who deposes princes from their thrones,
842 IV, 5 | has been kept as a sacred deposit in the churches of the apostles.
843 IV, 28 | in his treasures and the deposits of his precious things.~
844 V, 11 | blood of Naborb, when he deprecated His anger. How prompt in
845 I, 4 | speaking by Isaiah, will deprecatingly ask, "To whom will ye liken
846 IV, 10 | Saul blotted out by his deprecation the guilt of a violated
847 IV, 29 | Whether, indeed, it is as depreciating the Creator that he does
848 IV, 29 | will not be any longer a depreciator of the works and the indulgences
849 I, 28 | THIS PERVERSE DOCTRINE DEPRIVES BAPTISM OF ALL ITS GRACE.
850 IV, 33 | were covetous of riches, derided Him, when they understood
851 V, 5 | best of my belief, holds in derision. For God has chosen the
852 II, 2 | existence is so evident, deriving all their thoughts about
853 II, 27 | THE INCARNATION NOTHING DEROGATORY TO THE DIVINE BEING IN THIS
854 II, 27 | to become. It is He who descends, He who interrogates, He
855 I, 22 | aspects of time, I nowhere descry it from the beginning of
856 III, 23 | daughter of Sion has been deserted like a cottage in a vineyard,
857 IV, 43conc| between the sorrow of that desertion with which at present they
858 II, 24 | the Creator, for having deservedly and worthily decreed the
859 IV, 24 | decide that the workman deserves his wages, is in itself
860 V, 13 | letter also which clips the desh; and "the Jew which is one
861 III, 19 | bread, the Lord Himself designing to give by and by an interpretation
862 II, 10 | for the operation of his designs, He acted consistently with
863 I, 19 | entire state; for it is desirable that these subject-matters
864 V, 17 | Marcion, however, was very desirous of giving it the new rifle (
865 III, 23 | of Sion to be reduced to desolation, for there is none now to
866 V, 7 | them by; certain others I despatch briefly. A great argument
867 V, 6 | in His Christ, with that desperation and excessive malice with
868 IV, 11 | the time of John, although destining it for His own time. Otherwise
869 V, 9 | confident of its undying destiny, and even the multitude
870 IV, 20 | are you, that you should detect an hostility to the law
871 I, 23 | less can goodness itself be detected in any irrationality. More
872 V, 4 | way, as a clue to their detection; so, as it seems to me,
873 IV, 34 | fields, that there is some determinate place called Abraham's bosom,
874 II, 16 | you have, in fact, already determind that He is undoubtedly diverse
875 IV, 14 | because He is Christ, it determines the point that that was
876 IV, 23 | the seed must needs also detest the fruit. Yea, he ought
877 IV, 27 | law with any feeling of detestation towards it. For how could
878 I, 7 | fact, however, does not detract from the real attributes
879 II, 10 | itself; and this by false detraction from God: first, how that
880 IV, 20 | the lying, and upheld his detractors? However, no need of this
881 I, 29 | it and prefer it, without detriment, however, to marriage; not
882 V, 1intro| period of his life he would devastate the Lord's sheep, as a persecutor
883 V, 18 | what conflicts? From the devastation of what Country? From the
884 V, 18 | whether in their germ or their development, I have no difficulty in
885 I, 22 | own causes and material developments; and if thus preceding,
886 II, 10 | ONLY WAS GOD'S WORK. THE DEVILISH NATURE SUPERADDED BY WILFULNESS.
887 IV, 15 | entire work of the Creator devolves on Christ. If to Marcion'
888 IV, 33 | to whom they preferred to devote themselves. If, however,
889 I, 19 | Christ Jesus. A book will be devoted to Christ, treating of His
890 IV, 23 | separation; for there he who devotes himself to God, among other
891 II, 10 | sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and
892 I, 20 | most enduring Lord, who didst bear so many years with
893 I, 14 | account the more sacred diet. If I should offer you a
894 IV, 35 | proves nothing towards a diferenee in the gods, as tending
895 IV, 9 | Christ), because He acted differently from Elisha because, in
896 V, 20 | heaven." Therefore "one star differeth from another star in glory."
897 V, 3 | in other words, that the difficulties of the law might be changed
898 V, 21 | been redundant here, or diffident there, in your own honest
899 I, 29 | limit Who had once been diffuse in His permission; His to
900 IV, 36 | the poor, was very largely diffused through the pages of the
901 III, 11 | for the production of man; dilate on the impure and shameful
902 IV, 8 | So that he fell into the dilemma of having to conduct himself
903 IV, 14 | reproach of men, nor be diminished by their contempt." What
904 I, 1pref | Christians. For the cynic Diogenes used to go about, lantern
905 II, 13 | another function, even that of directing His goodness according to
906 IV, 35 | Israel, carrying with it the disaffected nine tribes, which, having
907 IV, 2 | faith, in which there is disagreement with Marcion. Marcion, on
908 V, 4 | a man's covenant, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto." For
909 IV, 42 | the phantom and the spirit disappeared together, and were nowhere
910 V, 1intro| genealogy. Should you, however, disapprove of these types, the Acts
911 II, 23 | respect of persons, sometimes disapproving where approbation is deserved;
912 IV, 19 | did not so much deny as disavow them. And therefore, when
913 IV, 19 | deserts, and not by any disavowal of His near relatives; teaching
914 V, 8 | another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers
915 I, 14 | you have a higher reach of discernment than his; you destroy what
916 IV, 22 | dismissed as having fully discharged their duty and office, for
917 II, 16 | dispositions by which He discharges His judicial functions.
918 IV, 3 | religion begins from the discipleship of Luke. Since, however,
919 IV, 42 | Lord had given to Him a disciplined tongue, that he might know
920 V, 14 | had been hidden, were now disclosed. For so had He promised: "
921 V, 5 | more dishonourable than the discoloration of the reddening skin? What
922 III, 13 | Jewish cavillers, in order to disconcert us, boldly pretend that
923 II, 20 | shall be your verdict,you discoverer of the most good God? That
924 V, 1intro| existence, and that after discovering its origin. Since therefore
925 IV, 29 | invited, for in his god he discovers one who hates the nuptial
926 IV, 9 | that it will turn to your discredit, if you deny that Christ
927 IV, 23 | and one already capable of discretion able to mock, if not to
928 I, 29 | IT AS HOLY, AND CAREFULLY DISCRIMINATES BETWEEN MARCION'S DOCTRINE
929 IV, 20 | bearing on the question we are discussing. For if it were not a veritable
930 III, 7 | without beauty: His form was disfigured;" "marred more than the
931 I, 23 | unrighteous, more unjust, more dishonest, than so to benefit an alien
932 V, 5 | vessels and of beds? What more dishonourable than the discoloration of
933 I, 4 | compared with God, he will be dislodged from that great supremacy
934 II, 19 | the oppressed go free:" dismiss the unjust sentence. "deal
935 V, 4 | the sentence of a summary dismissal, but the favour of a compendious
936 IV, 20 | which was the result of disordered health. Her case, however,
937 V, 12 | charges them with the guilt of disorderly conversation, rather than
938 I, 14 | freshness in your houses. You disparage the earth, although the
939 IV, 30 | must, however, on my side, dispel one fond conceit by another,"
940 IV, 14 | RESEMBLES THE CREATOR'S DISPENSATIONAL WORDS AND DEEDS. IT SUGGESTS
941 I, 23 | much less can reason itself dispense with order in any one. Suppose
942 II, 13 | spontaneously good, is now dispensed according to the deserts
943 II, 23 | or want of foresight, but dispenses reward according to the
944 IV, 20 | upon many waters." When He disperses its waves, Habakkuk's words
945 I, 2 | divine ones, wherein He disposes of those examples of a good
946 V, 6 | its foolish things, and disposing them to the attainment of
947 II, 11 | judged. You do not, however, disprove God's being a judge, who
948 IV, 41 | TRAITOR A JUDICIAL ACT, WHICH DISPROVES CHRIST TO BE SUCH AS MARCION
949 II, 28 | repentance of his previous disregard as was due for a wrong deed.
950 IV, 9 | that He touched the leper disregarding the precept of the law by
951 IV, 39 | iniquitous, how unjust and disrespectful to the good God, that you
952 V, 18 | the mystery, not for its disruption. He shows us that the mystery
953 IV, 43conc| it was He, and whilst He dissembled His knowledge of what had
954 I, 27 | truth is such a god! What a dissembler with his own decision! Afraid
955 IV, 21 | unwilling to have a lie disseminated. It was, however, a different
956 IV, 36 | to fulfil them." He also dissipated other doubts, when He declared
957 III, 9 | further by His death also dissolve our death, by rising again
958 V, 10 | of the body he called the dissolving thereof in the ground, "
959 IV, 15 | than show that the Creator dissuades men from riches, without
960 IV, 15 | had first proceeded the dissuasion against the material sin
961 IV, 15 | necessary sequel to such a dissuasive. He inflicts a woe also
962 V, 17 | the Gentiles from their distant alienation in words like
963 IV, 27 | premature nay, as yet so distasteful a love towards a new and
964 IV, 16 | drew it up, and gave it distinctive point, and arranged it after
965 IV, 19 | language was with equal distinctness promised by the Creator.
966 III, 17 | to the rule of Scripture, distinguishable as it is unless I am mistaken,
967 IV, 35 | that Christ was the true distinguisher and extinguisher of the
968 IV, 34 | dazzles his sight expressly distinguishes between Abraham's bosom,
969 III, 5 | themselves, that they may not distract the reader's attention by
970 I, 23 | belongs to another, and distributes by way of alms and charity,
971 IV, 35 | miracle was performed in the district of Samaria, to which country
972 IV, 13 | from Tyre, and from other districts even, a transmarine multitude.
973 III, 15 | is the resource of either distrust or of maliciousness. Much
974 IV, 15 | you happy mislead you, and disturb the paths of your feet."
975 III, 4 | him back at first? Or what disturbed him at last? As the case
976 IV, 34 | repeat the blush when you disunite them without the good reason
977 V, 12 | obtaining therein not so much a divestiture of body as "a clothing upon"
978 IV, 28 | him and his brother about dividing an inheritance, refused
979 III, 5 | natural to the prophetic divination to represent as seen and
980 III, 24 | a thousand years in the divinely-built city of Jerusalem, "let
981 IV, 8 | by His spirits, and to be divulged for the sake of being feared:
982 III, 22 | is clean contrary to our doings)." Premising, therefore,
983 III, 16 | pickpocket clutches the dole-basket, why did he wish to be called
984 IV, 25 | invaded another's good (domains) to deliver it to his son,
985 IV, 8 | connection whatever with the domestic localities of the Creator'
986 I, 24 | should be delivered from the domicile and power of the malignant
987 III, 23 | whose account the prophecy dooms them to such sufferings,
988 IV, 24 | of raiment and unleavened dough; whereas Christ commanded
989 III, 24 | that is, simply like a dove. For we shall, according
990 IV, 1 | devised for it a sort of dower, in a work composed of contrary
991 II, 2 | has in his very labour, downcast and earth-gravitating as
992 I, 10 | knowledge of God is the dowry of the soul, one and the
993 IV, 32 | LOST SHEEP AND THE LOST DRACHMA HAVE NO SUITABLE APPLICATION
994 II, 20 | these black clouds, and drag to light their tricks of
995 III, 5 | field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls," He surely
996 IV, 9 | trembled at the very large draught of the fishes, "Fear not;
997 IV, 8 | to be feared, because He drave them out, not by persuasion
998 IV, 39 | although so terrible and dreadful, as they had been predicted
999 V, 19 | of this heretic, when it dreads to arouse the anger of God,
1000 II, 11 | with evil, who have been dreaming of another god as a purely