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1001 IV, 16 | Him alone, who anciently drew it up, and gave it distinctive
1002 III, 8 | of contact, of eating or drinking, yea, His very miracles.
1003 V, 20 | to the law of mortality drops into the ground. But how
1004 V, 18 | those who "drank wine with drums and psalteries" were blamed
1005 IV, 20 | way for the people to pass dry-shod across; again does the same
1006 I, 5 | V. THE DUAL PRINCIPLE FALLS TO THE GROUND;
1007 II, 25 | of a minatory and not a dubious sense, under the colour
1008 IV, 38 | THE PHARISEES. RENDERING DUES TO CAESAR AND TO GOD. NEXT
1009 IV, 34 | raiseth up the poor from dunghills. Since, therefore, it is
1010 I, 24 | good and merciful God. Poor dupe of Marcion, fever is hard
1011 II, 3 | in extent and endless in duration; nor will it be possible
1012 II, 13 | father who must be loved with dutiful affection, a master who
1013 IV, 25 | babes as having been once dwarfs in knowledge and infants
1014 V, 12 | house of this our earthly dwelling-place, when he says that "we have
1015 V, 20 | of them it was true, i. e. single-minded, while in
1016 IV, 9 | BELONGING TO THE CREATOR, E.G. IN THE CALL OF FISHERMEN
1017 II, 12 | between the aqueous and the earth-born animals. As goodness conceived
1018 II, 2 | as it was, handed on that earth-derived spirit of the world to his
1019 II, 2 | very labour, downcast and earth-gravitating as it was, handed on that
1020 IV, 42 | OF THE CRUCIFIXION. THE EARTHQUAKE AND THE MID-DAY DARKNESS.
1021 IV, 39 | pestilence, and famines, and earthquakes, and fearful sights, and
1022 IV, 19 | up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice" that
1023 II, 4 | sanction: "In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shall surely
1024 V, 4 | shall reap;" because in Ecclesiastes it is said, "For everything
1025 V, 21 | Titus, which all treat of ecclesiastical discipline. His aim, was,
1026 II, 27 | THE DIVINE BEING IN THIS ECONOMY. THE DIVINE MAJESTY WORTHILY
1027 II, 15 | children's teeth were set on edge:" in other words, that the
1028 III, 14 | Divine Word, who is doubly edged with the two testaments
1029 IV, 40 | and not rather (some other edible thing, say) a melon, which
1030 IV, 25 | all, it is, I presume, the edification rather than the demolition
1031 IV, 39 | upon which we are ourselves edified "built," as St.Paul says, "
1032 IV, 40 | is this that cometh from Edom, from Bosor with garments
1033 III, 20 | For Satan stirred up an Edomite as an enemy against him.
1034 V, 1intro| declining years he would educate the fold of Christ, as the
1035 II, 18 | man might be more readily educated by God for fasting, he was
1036 V, 7 | the Christ who was to be educed out of them? For, being
1037 V, 18 | on which he practises his effacing process. The apostle declares
1038 IV, 9 | endued with compendious efficacy. Even Marcion finds here
1039 III, 10 | his Christ except in the effigy of an unworthy, and indeed
1040 V, 3 | must be thwarted in their efforts to bring it under the yoke
1041 IV, 26 | serpent for a fish, nor for an egg a scorpion. It will, however,
1042 IV, 22 | means to be where Moses and EIias are); "and let us make three
1043 I, 14 | and house, the poisonous ejections of the blister-beetle, the
1044 IV, 26 | otherwise mean, than that He ejects the spirits by the same
1045 II, 29 | fuller combat, if a more elaborate demolition of them were
1046 I, 19 | what particular year of the elder Antoninus. He who had so
1047 IV, 41 | man, whom He deliberately elected to be one of His companions,
1048 IV, 11 | Lebanon, my spouse." He elegantly makes mention of Lebanon (
1049 IV, 26 | XXVI. FROM ST. LUKE'S ELEVENTH CHAPTER OTHER EVIDENCE THAT
1050 IV, 13 | in the twelve springs of Elfin; in the twelve gems of Aaron'
1051 IV, 24 | the twelve fountains of Elim, should not the seventy
1052 II, 3 | find in any other god, but eliminated it for himself out of his
1053 IV, 35 | in lsrael in the days of Eliseus the prophet, and none of
1054 I, 29 | FORBIDS MARRIAGE. TERTULLIAN ELOQUENTLY DEFENDS IT AS HOLY, AND
1055 IV, 34 | who has ever heard of the Elysian fields, that there is some
1056 V, 19 | occurred in another epistle, emanated from the Creator, who, while
1057 I, 1pref | beaver was ever a greater emasculator than he who has abolished
1058 IV, 29 | are to be free from the embarrassments of a perplexed and much
1059 IV, 15 | those who had come on an embassy from Babylon, (the Creator)
1060 IV, 15 | threat, especially when it is embittered with a woe? Moreover, both
1061 I, 13 | with joy recovered, is an emblem of the regularity wherewith
1062 IV | OF SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES, EMBRACING PROFOUND VIEWS OF REVELATION,
1063 IV, 4 | putting it together out of the emendations of ours, he has made his
1064 II, 10 | jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle; and
1065 III, 20 | the vortex of human error emerging out of it up to the Divine
1066 IV, 20 | as a sword, to hinder the emigrant nation in their passage
1067 III, 21 | the Lord," that is, God's eminence, "and the house of God,"
1068 III, 21 | mountains," over all the eminences of virtues and powers; "
1069 IV, 22 | CHRIST IN GLORY TWO SUCH EMINENT SERVANTS OF THE CREATOR
1070 V, 16 | is incontestable that the emissary, and the truth, and the
1071 II, 4 | My heart" He says, "hath emitted my most excellent Word."
1072 II, 27 | whom God made His Son by emitting Him from His own self, and
1073 I, 25 | PORTRAITURE OF HIS SIMPLY GOOD AND EMOTIONLESS GOD.~As touching this question
1074 II, 4 | abode. In this good work God employs a most excellent minister,
1075 V, 20 | to be equal with God; but emptied Himself, and took upon Him
1076 V, 5 | Unless, forsooth, the Creator en-joined us to glory in the god of
1077 V, 10 | thanks" are due, for having enabled us to achieve "the victory"
1078 IV, 4 | of ourselves and Marcion enables it to be decisive of the
1079 V, 19 | superstitious angels that he had enacted his prohibition of sundry
1080 IV, 34 | Moses in another passage enacting that he who had married
1081 IV, 34 | exculpated than abolished the enactment of Moses? But, observe,
1082 V, 13 | the law. But how high an encomium of the law (do we obtain)
1083 I, 25 | already in the very act encounters a rival, both in Him from
1084 I, 13 | unworthy, might yet have encouraged the hope of some better
1085 I, 6 | rate the supremacy would be endangered even in Marcion's more powerful
1086 IV, 33 | the law and the prophets ended in John, and a new state
1087 II, 3 | measureless in extent and endless in duration; nor will it
1088 IV, 12 | because He is pleased to endorse the Creator's indulgence:
1089 II, 10 | would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next
1090 V, 15 | his God; and as long as He endures, so long also does His Spirit
1091 V, 7 | prescribes repudiation of all engagements before marriage, whose teaching
1092 V, 11 | newness. Indeed, He who had engraved its letter in stones is
1093 IV, 20 | the chivalry of Egypt is engulphed! To that consummation the
1094 IV, 39 | THE CREATOR. THIS PROOF ENHANCED BY THE PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE
1095 II, 11 | COMPATIBLE WITH HIS GOODNESS, AND ENHANCES THE TRUE IDEA OF THE PERFECTION
1096 V, 6 | figures, allegories, and enigmatical types; but it was afterwards
1097 IV, 8 | submitted to any touch. "Tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla
1098 IV, 15 | proud and noble: "Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her
1099 V, 18 | was the grace given" of enlightening all men as to "what was
1100 V, 17 | likewise will grant "the enlightenment of the eyes of the understanding,"
1101 V, 15 | extravagant, unnatural, and enormous sins. The law of nature
1102 II, 19 | persevere in anger, or be enraged: "walk not in the counsel
1103 IV, 25 | who had no other means of enriching his son than by helping
1104 IV, 7 | family, and lastly, His enrolment in the census of Augustus
1105 V, 7 | things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for
1106 III, 19 | king is there who bears the ensign of his dominion upon his
1107 V, 4 | at whose command lay the enslaving power of the law. And very
1108 IV, 12 | character of each institution ensued on this account, because
1109 V, 10 | changed condition which ensues on the resurrection. Since,
1110 V, 2 | introduce a gospel! But you thus entangle yourself still more. For
1111 V, 4 | received liberty should be "entangled again with the yoke of bondage"
1112 III, 12 | ever engaged in any warlike enterprise. I must, however, remind
1113 IV, 18 | felt was evidently rather entertained about Him whom he knew indeed
1114 IV, 37 | receiving the Lord, and entertaining Him in his house. "When
1115 V, 12 | his request, when thrice entreated to liberate him! It would
1116 IV, 33 | as the words, "Who will entrust to you the truer riches?"
1117 IV, 37 | PARABLE OF THE TEN SERVANTS ENTRUSTED WITH TEN POUNDS. CHRIST
1118 V, 17 | at whose disposal is enumerated that sevenfold distribution
1119 IV, 39 | arms, no one would think of enumerating stones as weapons, which
1120 IV, 7 | sure he did, as being an envious (spirit), and in his very
1121 IV, 28 | when he gloried, before the envoys of Babylon, in his treasures
1122 V, 20 | preached Christ even out of envy and strife, and again others
1123 V, 19 | THE FULNESS OF CHRIST. THE EPICUREAN CHARACTER OF MARCION'S GOD.
1124 IV, 29 | its parables, the perfect equalization of its similitudes; for
1125 III, 16 | between us that certain and equitable rule, necessary to both
1126 IV, 17 | usury. The first step was to eradicate the fruit of the money lent,
1127 V, 14 | Marcion had an object in his erasures, why does his apostle utter
1128 V, 6 | is, from Judaism for the erection of Christianity, in order "
1129 IV, 41 | pronounced the sentence "Ergo tu fulius Dei es" inter-rogatively,
1130 IV, 24 | over it, and they shall not err therein; no lion shall be
1131 IV, 22 | here cause of his previous erroneous opinion, then you may be
1132 IV, 22 | thus ignorant, because he erroneously supposed that (Jesus) was
1133 IV, 41 | sentence "Ergo tu fulius Dei es" inter-rogatively, and not
1134 II, 25 | wolf or the paltry thief escapes not the notice of the keeper
1135 V, 10 | living in the flesh, we yet eschew the deeds of the flesh,
1136 V, 12 | Gods); when, again, he "espouses the church as a chaste virgin
1137 I, 5 | forth a swarm of divine essences, a brood of no less than
1138 IV, 22 | recommend. For, says he, He establishes the words of His Son, when
1139 V, 8 | those persons accounted estimable who shun heresies as an
1140 IV, 8 | any touch. "Tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla
1141 I, 13 | earth, Zeno the air and ether, and Plato the stars, which
1142 IV, 13 | Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians; they were there. Sion is
1143 IV, 34 | sacrament of baptism and of the eucharist those who have been united
1144 V, 13 | OF GOD, EVEN WHEN HE IS EULOGIZING THE MERCIES OF THE GOSPEL.
1145 II, 25 | even then was initiated the evangelic doctrine, "By thy words
1146 IV, 2 | first position, that the evangelical Testament has apostles for
1147 IV, 9 | Lord's word, than that our (evangelists) have inserted it.~
1148 IV, 13 | you have the action of the Evangelizer; you have a mountain for
1149 II, 25 | actually curse Adam and Eve, for they were candidates
1150 V, 1intro| the churches; but in the evening he would give them nourishment,
1151 II, 3 | foreknew what good would eventually transpire, and therefore
1152 V, 5 | because he was unknown to everybody, and because he is incapable
1153 I, 26 | course for God to spare the evil-doer than to punish him, especially
1154 V, 13 | whom he upbraids them as evil-doers! He prefers even circumcision
1155 II, 27 | hardly know whether you ex fide believe that God was
1156 II, 20 | which He commanded to be exacted. The Egyptians ought to
1157 IV, 23 | spared not impious children, exacting as He does honour for every
1158 I, 11 | works more illustrious and exalted still, in order that He
1159 I, 5 | begins, now that one is exceeded. In short, we feel that
1160 IV, 35 | might especially, which (as excelling in glory and strength, because
1161 IV, 16 | His Father's compassion, excepting none from His mercy, as
1162 IV, 12 | while doing what the law excepts from the sacredness of the
1163 V, 6 | with that desperation and excessive malice with which the most
1164 III, 22 | Judaism itself, when they exchanged the obligations and burdens
1165 V, 19 | Church (proper ecclesiam), exchanging body for body one of flesh
1166 V, 12 | in Elijah. But what will excite my surprise still more is
1167 I, 25 | arises in liberating man excites them; and since, again,
1168 IV, 8 | forth with a testimony, exclaiming, "Thou art the Son of God,"
1169 IV, 30 | against the will of the excluder, in which case he will be
1170 IV, 30 | punishment inflicted by Him who excludes for punishment, when they
1171 IV, 34 | must He not have rather exculpated than abolished the enactment
1172 IV, 27 | rather have deemed them excusable for being unable to carry
1173 II, 21 | work, but God's, which they executed, and that too, from His
1174 IV, 24 | threatening god, one that executes also, and in both, one that
1175 IV, 30 | both belong to one, He who executeth judgment can be none else
1176 II, 17 | which no other god at all exercises. It is true that Marcion
1177 I, 26 | as one who refrains from exercising judicial power, I cannot
1178 I, 23 | some extent rational, if exerted for one of our own house
1179 I, 19 | a pestilential sirocco, exhale this health or salvation,
1180 I, 24 | actually feeble, weak, and exhausted, failing to embrace the
1181 V, 4 | two covenants," or the two exhibitions (of the divine plans), as
1182 IV, 25 | destroying, did not choose to exhort the man rather to that eternal
1183 V, 7 | THE TIME IS SHORT. IN HIS EXHORTATIONS AND DOCTRINE, THE APOSTLE
1184 V, 13 | THE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH EXHORTED TO HAVE PEACE WITH GOD.
1185 V, 11 | the words which follow he exhorts us not to the things which
1186 I, 22 | the beginning of material existences, or at the commencement
1187 IV, 20 | servants also. Examine well the Exodus, Marcion; look at the rod
1188 IV, 24 | their hire, He, in fact, exonerated from blame that precept
1189 I, 29 | yet, let him reserve his expectations, until we examine the very
1190 IV, 22 | connection with Him, suggest an expedient: "It is good for us to be
1191 III, 24 | very lately fulfilled in an expedition to the East. For it is evident
1192 II, 10 | injured man when he was expelled from his allegiance to God,
1193 I, 13 | ATTRIBUTES.~While we are expelling from this rank (of Deity)
1194 I, 18 | been able, according to experiments all over the world, more
1195 III, 7 | after all sins have been expiated) the priests of the spiritual
1196 IV, 9 | that he might celebrate the expiation of a perfect hebdomad; and
1197 V, 6 | this almost at the very expiration of all the ages of the Creator,
1198 IV, 42 | have departed rather than expired. What, however, breathes
1199 V, 8 | from whose institution he explains the reasons of His discipline.
1200 IV, 18 | that I may the more easily explode the scandal of our heretic.
1201 III, 18 | believed that the Creator would expose His Son to that kind of
1202 V, 20 | their tempers. But while he exposes these tempers as the sole
1203 IV | ALSO ABOUNDS IN STRIKING EXPOSITIONS OF SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES,
1204 II, 19 | be fond of the divine expostulations: avoid contact with the
1205 IV, 12 | good reason, too, for expressing the Creator's will, when
1206 II, 25 | necessary tone of utterance, as expressive of a minatory and not a
1207 IV, 43conc| explaining them away as by expunging them from the text. Thus,
1208 I, 29 | when served up with too exquisite a daintiness, they conduce
1209 IV, 36 | which were still probably extant at this time. But the Jesus
1210 II, 17 | vouchsafing to Hezekiah's tears an extension of his life, and restoring
1211 IV, 9 | might he have seemed to some extentto have persisted in his patience.
1212 II, 15 | condemn the Judge's sentences; extenuate the delinquencies of the
1213 IV, 12 | in their fault and their extenuation; because He is pleased to
1214 IV, 20 | must be understood to be an exterminator of spiritual foes, who wields
1215 IV, 33 | fulfilment and not their extinction, and in order that the kingdom
1216 IV, 35 | the true distinguisher and extinguisher of the defilements of mankind.
1217 I, 26 | defence of the former by the extirpation of the latter.~
1218 V, 20 | the human suffering, to extol the virtue of His obedience,
1219 IV, 18 | CREATOR.~Likewise, when extolling the centurion's faith, how
1220 IV, 41 | but because they wanted to extort a confession from His mouth,
1221 II, 26 | His threatenings, and thus extorts faith which at first was
1222 I, 14 | undoubted enemy, and yet you extract from it all its fatness
1223 IV, 18 | WHO WAS A SINNER. PROOFS EXTRACTED FROM ALL OF THE RELATION
1224 IV, 14 | Behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall be
1225 IV, 14 | Surely gladness and joyous exultation is promised to those who
1226 IV, 11 | mouth of Isaiah He also says exultingly of the Father: "Let my soul
1227 IV, 21 | when Peter, who had been an eye-witness of the miracle, and had
1228 I, 13 | ashamed of the names and fables of their ancient dead borne
1229 I, 15 | inasmuch as He too has fabricated a world out of some underlying
1230 V, 3 | might be changed into the facilities of the gospel. For he remembered
1231 V, 10 | body, he of course ipso facto proclaimed in the argument
1232 V, 15 | distinct names to all (our faculties), and has comprised them
1233 IV, 13 | passage. Therefore He would fain impart to the dearest of
1234 V, 11 | which cause we will not faint." Now, when he adds of "
1235 III, 14 | gear. The above-mentioned "fairness" of His beauty and "grace
1236 V, 20 | faith. For it was to the faithfulness of their preaching that
1237 IV, 9 | adultery, fornication, false-witness, and fraud. Seven times,
1238 IV, 3 | obliterated by the inundation of falsifiers in which case even Marcion
1239 V, 21 | to protect it against the falsifying hands of Marcion. I wonder,
1240 V, 14 | sinfulness, and not to any falsity of the substance. Because
1241 IV, 17 | yet expressed itself but falteringly. For in the passage of Ezekiel
1242 IV, 22 | together, which is a sign of familiarity; nor as associated in glory
1243 IV, 36 | into tribes and clans, and families and houses, that no man
1244 IV, 39 | nation, and pestilence, and famines, and earthquakes, and fearful
1245 I, 29 | without moderation, it is fanned into a voluptuous flame.
1246 IV, 23 | first "to bid his family farewell," He only follows out the
1247 II, 20 | should be valued at only "a farthing" a day a piece. Which, however,
1248 IV, 26 | Him, who, by making and fashioning me, became my parent? Of
1249 III, 6 | this people hath growth fat, and with their ears they
1250 I, 8 | NOVELTY OF MARCION'S GOD FATAL TO HIS PRETENSIONS. GOD
1251 I, 16 | to what author even (your favourite) apostle attributes the
1252 II, 19 | laborious services hewing out a fealty which was (as yet) untried
1253 V, 20 | by his bonds, were more fearless in speaking the word," while
1254 V, 1intro| of him, and for bearing fearlessly your taunt. "Then you deny
1255 IV, 30 | following similitude, I have my fears lest it should somehow presage
1256 V, 10 | whatever it may have been.) The Februarian lustrations will perhaps
1257 IV, 29 | storehouses, and are yet fed" by Himself; whose "lilies
1258 IV, 40 | from its first purpose of a fee, and appropriated to the
1259 IV, 21 | MISSION OF THE DISCIPLES. THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE. THE CONFESSION
1260 II, 15 | law. For who is there that feels not a greater care for his
1261 IV, 29 | Will it not be the for feiture of salvation, since their
1262 V, 17 | strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of
1263 IV, 29 | steward who should treat his fellow-servants well in his Lord's absence,
1264 I, 1pref | the glow of life, but that ferocity which has given to scenic
1265 IV, 30 | closely followed up by a fervent judgment, the severity of
1266 III, 4 | towards the Creator, but fervid against His Christ, and
1267 IV, 40 | Accordingly, of all the festal days of the Jews He chose
1268 IV, 11 | race, no doubt you would fetch your proof from the idiom
1269 I, 24 | God. Poor dupe of Marcion, fever is hard upon you; and your
1270 II, 20 | property, no doubt, of still fewer rich men that any one would
1271 III, 15 | amongst them? Then 'tis a fickle and tricksty God whom you
1272 III, 10 | but he honoured it by his fiction of it. How great, then,
1273 IV, 21 | shame for having given him a fictitious existence.~
1274 II, 27 | hardly know whether you ex fide believe that God was crucified.
1275 III, 24 | which we entitle De Spe Fidelium. At present, too, it would
1276 II, 26 | mean enough in His very fierceness, when, in His wrath against
1277 I, 1pref | barbarous character. The fiercest nations inhabit it, if indeed
1278 IV, 9 | IX. OUT OF ST. LUKE'S FIFTH CHAPTER ARE FOUND PROOFS
1279 III, 23 | they have perished. In the fifty-eighth Psalm He demands of the
1280 IV, 20 | wields spiritual arms and fights in spiritual strife; and
1281 V, 19 | apostle) declares that he "fills up that which is behind
1282 V, 12 | cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of flesh and blood" (since
1283 V, 14 | receiving Christ, the end (or finisher) of the law. But how then
1284 III, 23 | Isaiah He also says, as He finishes a prophecy of their consumption
1285 I, 1pref | North. Waters melt only by fires; their rivers flow not by
1286 V, 10 | again? We stand, then, on firm ground (when we say) that
1287 V, 19 | If Christ is not "the first-begotten before every creature,"as
1288 V, 19 | things, if He is not "the first-born of every creature" if He
1289 II, 19 | of His goodness and the first-fruits thereof.~
1290 IV, 9 | Behold, I will send many fishers; and they shall fish them,"
1291 IV, 9 | very large draught of the fishes, "Fear not; from henceforth
1292 IV, 34 | and purport, it naturally fits in with the mention of John
1293 III, 9 | should not my God also have fitted on to angels the true substance
1294 IV, 21 | supported the lives of not five thousand, but of six hundred
1295 IV, 20 | from its very depths, then fixes itself in two solidified
1296 IV, 29 | parable also he makes a flagrant mistake, when he assigns
1297 V, 18 | falsification, however, is flagrantly absurd. For the apostle
1298 V, 16 | to a God who kindles the flames (of vengeance), and therefore
1299 IV, 39 | glittering of the lightning's flash; in thine anger thou shalt
1300 II, 10 | stones of fire, and the flashing rays of burning conStellations,
1301 IV, 41 | protestations of zeal, to a flat denial of him, rather than
1302 IV, 28 | parable of the rich man, who flattered himself about the increase
1303 IV, 15 | to condemn the praise and flattering words bestowed on the false
1304 I, 2 | whole lump of the faith, flavouring it with the acidity of his
1305 II, 24 | unto the Lord, "Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for
1306 V, 9 | says He, "like rain upon a fleece, and like dropping showers
1307 IV, 15 | continue long, and were not fleeting; who drink their refined
1308 I, 24 | from His kingdom when His flies are still creeping upon
1309 IV, 13 | may know how Gentiles then flocked to Him, because He was born
1310 II, 13 | be such, that sins might flourish under Him, and the devil
1311 I, 11 | whence it had previously flowed forth to the true one. One
1312 I, 13 | humbler objects. A single floweret from the hedgerow, I say
1313 IV, 21 | the ravens and clothes the flowers of the field? Who anciently
1314 III, 5 | and also hear of "a land flowing with milk and honey," but
1315 I, 21 | life and discipline alone fluctuated. Some disputed about eating
1316 IV, 21 | corporeal substance, from the fluids of a woman; was never deemed
1317 III, 11 | either from their natural flux or from some other malady.
1318 IV, 21 | at liberty to gather his fodder from his labour, on the
1319 IV, 20 | exterminator of spiritual foes, who wields spiritual arms
1320 IV, 21 | in the womb; never called foetus after such shaping; was
1321 I, 15 | with a world of his own to foist himself in. Now, begin to
1322 V, 1intro| years he would educate the fold of Christ, as the teacher
1323 V, 1intro| degree a new disciple? the follower of no other master; who
1324 IV, 28 | to Whom God said: "Thou fool, this night shall they require
1325 III, 11 | therefore fleshly. But most foolishly did our Pontic heresiarch
1326 IV, 24 | shall Thou trample under foot." So also Isaiah: "In that
1327 IV, 2 | AND GRAPPLED WITH ON THE FOOTING OF ST. LUKE'S GOSPEL ALONE.~
1328 IV, 34 | permitting divorce and in for-bidding it. You find Him also protecting
1329 II, 9 | who turns out to be its forbidder, nay, its condemner. If
1330 IV, 24 | testimony, which surely forbodes some threats? Furthermore,
1331 III, 2 | foundations of pro-arrangement and fore-announcement. Faith, when informed by
1332 II, 7 | things? God, however, did fore-know that man would make a bad
1333 V, 6 | question: Why did (his god) fore-ordain our glory before the ages
1334 V, 16 | out into the world," the fore-runners of Antichrist, who deny
1335 IV, 22 | in the company of His own foreannouncers? to let Him be seen with
1336 II, 23 | judgments, or could not forecast His future ones; yet s nothing
1337 III, 22 | you, and the sign upon the forehead, and the sacraments of the
1338 V, 17 | now no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with
1339 IV, 36 | Did Christ rescind the forementioned commandments: "Do not kill,
1340 III, 5 | forseeing it, that which it foresees; in other words, that which
1341 II, 4 | all things good, plainly foreshowing how much good was preparing
1342 IV, 1 | circumcise yourselves in the foreskin of your heart." And in another
1343 IV, 14 | these; as if I were in a forest, or a meadow, or an orchard
1344 III, 3 | place in the baths, and so forestalled all who came after Him in
1345 IV, 35 | also Christ is its enemy forestalling its enactments even in His
1346 III, 3 | like Him, and like Him had forewarned men not to believe in others,
1347 IV, 28 | being only killed; and this forewarning He offers, in order that
1348 IV, 28 | therefore will be they whom He forewarns above not to be afraid of
1349 I, 8 | lacks age. God, if old, forfeits the eternity that is to
1350 I, 27 | cast away will involve the forfeiture of salvation; and this sentence
1351 IV, 10 | deny that the Creator ever forgave sins; then you must in reason
1352 IV, 5 | late date is the mark of forgers, and that authority of churches
1353 IV, 5 | truth must needs precede the forgery, and proceed straight from
1354 V, 17 | however, the heretic erased, forgetting that the Lord had set in
1355 IV, 10 | the same prophet as the forgiver of sins. "For," he says, "
1356 IV, 26 | them; or He who, unless He forgives them, will retain them,
1357 II, 6 | constitution of his nature, as a formal witness of the goodness
1358 III, 6 | announced by the Creator, "who formeth the lightning, and createth
1359 V, 12 | was for making himself so formidable!~
1360 IV, 17 | gospel. It was engaged in forming the faith of such as would
1361 IV, 34 | prophet: "Thou shalt not forsake the wife of thy youth."
1362 I, 1pref | be designated as one who, forsaking that which was prior, afterwards
1363 III, 5 | brought to pass, even while forseeing it, that which it foresees;
1364 III, 11 | question on this point. Forsilly women fancy themselves pregnant
1365 III, 23 | understood Him not, but forsook Him, and provoked the Holy
1366 III, 3 | s Christ who was to come fortified by signs and prophets of
1367 V, 1intro| apostolic body in the way of a fortuitous encounter rather than a
1368 III, 5 | never meant to derive His fortunate omens from the young of
1369 II, 16 | and must therefore die. Fortunately, however, it is a part of
1370 II, 1 | reproducing this little work, the fortunes of which we noticed in the
1371 V, 5 | The circus shouted," "The forum spoke," and "The basilica
1372 V, 1intro| ticketed him, what owner forwarded him, who handed him to you,
1373 IV, 5 | We have also St. John's foster churches. For although Marcion
1374 III, 18 | but because in a battle fought in the name of that Lord
1375 I, 1pref | Marcion was born there, fouler than any Scythian, more
1376 III, 2 | preparation built upon the foundations of pro-arrangement and fore-announcement.
1377 I, 15 | instances, and in the lower ones four. When to these are added
1378 IV, 37 | accusation, I restore him fourfold." Therefore the Lord said, "
1379 V, 3 | apostles, he tells us s that "fourteen years after he went up to
1380 III, 5 | from the young of birds and foxes, and from the songsters
1381 IV, 24 | people came from Egypt, they fraudulently withheld provisions from
1382 IV, 39 | He will be a match in the freeness of His gifts with the good
1383 V, 1intro| overboard or tampered with a freight, you are still more careful
1384 V, 19 | commanded men "to break up fresh ground for themselves,"
1385 III, 17 | smoking flax that is, the freshly-kindled ardour of the Gentiles.
1386 I, 14 | you are glad to catch its freshness in your houses. You disparage
1387 II, 4 | imperious word, but with friendly hand preceded by an almost
1388 IV, 31 | their place); for they are a froward generation, children in
1389 IV, 22 | would have imitated the frowardness (of heresy), and revealed
1390 IV, 39 | very near." Now, if the fructification of the common trees be an
1391 IV, 37 | the money He teaches me fruitfully to expend.~
1392 II, 3 | good as the knowledge and fruition of God? Now, although it
1393 IV, 39 | good God, He would have frustrated rather than advanced events
1394 IV, 11 | the heretic may blush at frustrating, to his own frustration,
1395 IV, 11 | frustrating, to his own frustration, the mission of John the
1396 V, 15 | whom shall I expect (the fulfil-merit of) all this, except from
1397 V, 4 | another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ," since
1398 IV, 12 | in this very example He fulfils the prophetic announcement
1399 IV, 41 | pronounced the sentence "Ergo tu fulius Dei es" inter-rogatively,
1400 IV, 21 | was revealed from heaven, full-grown at once, at once complete;
1401 III, 7 | heretic will now have the fullest opportunity of learning
1402 IV, 23 | priests to be present at the funerals even of their parents. "
1403 IV, 16 | to the law, but rather in furtherance of it, without at all impairing
1404 III, 18 | Him did they wreak their fury after they had slain His
1405 IV, 15 | not proceed from the same Gad who had just before expressed
1406 IV, 12 | it," although Marcion has gagged His mouth by this word.
1407 V, 4 | was once the Master? For Galba himself never liberated
1408 IV, 7 | proposition) he "came down to the Galilean city of Capernaum," of course
1409 V, 13 | unrighteousness. But what serious gaps Marcion has made in this
1410 IV, 19 | they did, in the perfect garb of human quality? supposing
1411 V, 1intro| Paul himself. Now, the garbled form in which we have found
1412 I, 23 | house and on his master's garner, and still trembling beneath
1413 V, 11 | refer to the Jew, over whose gaze Moses' veil is spread, to
1414 V, 15 | the heavenly intelligences gazed with admiration on "the
1415 IV, 42 | prolonged its course gladly gazing at Marcion's Christ suspended
1416 III, 14 | Word, without any martial gear. The above-mentioned "fairness"
1417 IV, 24 | Elisha sent on his servant Gehazi before him to raise the
1418 IV, 17 | fruit, so neither can truth generate heresy; and as a corrupt
1419 I, 28 | regenerate, who has never generated? For the repetition of an
1420 I, 29 | title to baptism, as if even generative impotents did not all receive
1421 I, 13 | professors of wisdom, from whose genius every heresy derives its
1422 II, 7 | against the Creator, recall gently to your mind in His behalf
1423 IV, 31 | of God. In a manner most germane I to this parable, He said
1424 IV, 41 | all this, He with a solemn gesture says, "Hereafter shall the
1425 I, 11 | provision at all towards getting Himself acknowledged? Whereas
1426 IV, 42 | Christ suspended on his gibbet! These proofs would still
1427 IV, 36 | although it was already gifted with a better sight, and
1428 III, 14 | common master Paul, who "girds our loins about with truth,
1429 III, 14 | quite suit such a sword, girt as it even then was upon
1430 IV, 42 | have prolonged its course gladly gazing at Marcion's Christ
1431 IV, 14 | dispensation of Christ. Surely gladness and joyous exultation is
1432 IV, 7 | indicates a sudden unexpected glance, which for a moment fixed
1433 IV, 42 | done, the heaven would have gleamed with light, the sun would
1434 II, 13 | opposite: would not all glide down that road were there
1435 IV, 22 | wherewith His very raiment glistened." And if we would make mention
1436 IV, 39 | shield shall be (like) the glittering of the lightning's flash;
1437 IV, 12 | which is to be free from gloom rather than from work; because
1438 I, 28 | what it burdens or else glorifies? Why keep back from a work
1439 V, 6 | same thing is said about glorying (in princes).~
1440 I, 1pref | cold. Nothing there has the glow of life, but that ferocity
1441 I, 29 | daintiness, they conduce to gluttony; nor is raiment to be blamed,
1442 I, 14 | spikes of the fly, and the gnat's Sheath and sting. What
1443 I, 1pref | gnawing powers as he who has gnawed the Gospels to pieces? Verily,
1444 I, 9 | IX. MARCION'S GNOSTIC PRETENSIONS VAIN, FOR THE
1445 II, 22 | And yet the simple and God-fearing mind of those who offered
1446 IV, 11 | as he is one of Marcion's god-made men, having to himself both
1447 I, 8 | when it first gave him godship. On the contrary, living
1448 IV, 23 | Thee whithersoever Thou goest,' then, by judicially reproving
1449 II, 25 | to the case of Sodom and Gomorrha, he says: "I will go down
1450 V, 20 | and again others out of good-will" many also "out of love,"
1451 II, 24 | statement respecting the goodliness of his person, how that
1452 IV, 15 | art full, and hast built goodly houses, and when thy herds
1453 IV, 34 | between the law and the gospel- between Moses and Christ?
1454 V, 19 | false apostles and Judaizing gospellers have intraduced all these
1455 II, 7 | and the purposes of His governance and foreknowledge, and the
1456 III, 14 | blandishments of fair beauty and graceful lips are ascribed to one
1457 IV, 18 | thy way before thee." He graciously adduced the prophecy in
1458 IV, 17 | such as would learn, by gradual stages, for the perfect
1459 II, 4 | most clumsy clown, he has grafted a good branch on a bad stock.
1460 IV, 39 | COMING. HE WhOSE COMING IS SO GRANDLY DESCRIBED BOTH IN THE OLD
1461 III, 13 | nature, certainly, nowhere grants to man to learn warfare
1462 II, 15 | fathers had eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth
1463 IV, 40 | clothes in the blood of grapes" in His garments and clothes
1464 III, 5 | from this point have to grapple with my opponent on a distinct
1465 IV, 2 | HOWEVER, ACCEPTED, AND GRAPPLED WITH ON THE FOOTING OF ST.
1466 IV | REMARKABLE PROOF OF TERTULLIAN'S GRASP OF SCRIPTURE, AND PROVES
1467 I, 9 | minds as well as the natural gratification which is inherent in novelty,
1468 I, 1pref | naked. Moreover, when they gratify secret lust, they hang up
1469 V, 8 | sons of men," that is, the gratuities, which we call charismata.
1470 V, 19 | us a restoration from the grave of the same flesh (that
1471 I, 11 | unwilling. What indeed tended so greatly to the knowledge of himself,
1472 V, 5 | salute each other with the greeting of "peace," and formerly
1473 III, 17 | sorrows, and acquainted with grief, who was led as a sheep
1474 IV, 8 | says he, "He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows."
1475 II, 20 | Which, too, the greater the grievance of the Egyptians against
1476 II, 16 | jealous, and roused, and grieved, He must therefore be corrupted,
1477 IV, 14 | is to the sorrowful and grieving. Therefore the Creator,
1478 V, 15 | to luxury as well as to grossness and uncleanness; it does
1479 I, 12 | by furnishing to them no groundwork for their faith.~
1480 II, 11 | and thorns, where once had grown grass, and herbs, and fruitful
1481 V, 10 | samples? Does he not also guarantee that the resurrection shall
1482 I, 22 | provides from the past nor guarantees for the future any means
1483 I, 11 | existed alone, should have guarded by such mighty works the
1484 I, 18 | If by man's conjectural guesses, do not say that God can
1485 II, 14 | still, the harasser of its guest-population, was unjustly stricken with
1486 III, 7 | whom he has borrowed his guidance in this discussion. Since,
1487 III, 13 | which led their way and guided them, became the spoils
1488 II, 19 | their lips from speaking guile: depart from evil, and do
1489 II, 8 | creature whom He knew to be guiltless on the score of his helplessness:
1490 I, 13 | hierophants, and the Indian gymnosophists. The very superstition of
1491 III, 18 | in their self-will they hacked the sinews of a bullock,"
1492 I, 29 | thougod of our heretic, hadst thou only checked the dispensation
1493 IV, 26 | might have been crushed with hail and lightning just as it
1494 IV, 18 | tears, wiped them with the hairs of her head, anointed them
1495 IV, 37 | way, when he offered the half of his goods for all works
1496 I, 24 | Now, whence comes this halving of salvation, if not from
1497 I, 14 | within and without. Even this handiwork of our God will be pleasing
1498 V, 21 | which we previously had to handle, and that we have now brought
1499 V, 8 | my servants and upon my handmaids will I pour out of my Spirit."
1500 I, 7 | angels nor men, the Creator's handwork. If an identity of names