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1501 I, 1pref | gratify secret lust, they hang up their quivers on their
1502 IV, 35 | or if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were
1503 IV, 14 | earlier, in the book of Kings, Hannah the mother of Samuel gives
1504 IV, 24 | god over a single lizard? Happily the Creator has promised
1505 II, 14 | superstititious, and, worse still, the harasser of its guest-population,
1506 IV, 33 | Being who was to follow His harbinger John. So that, if the old
1507 IV, 34 | defines the heavenly bosom and harbour to belong to Christ and
1508 II, 14 | of its ten plagues. God hardens the heart of Pharaoh. He
1509 IV, 34 | Christ to be joined to a harlot." Divorce, therefore, when
1510 II, 7 | that He might keep from harm what He wished. For, since
1511 I, 24 | to destruction the more harmless substance, which sins rather
1512 IV, 31 | nor His dispensation in harmony with the parable? Or, again
1513 I, 22 | and by keeping the world harrassed by the wrong. What would
1514 IV, 24 | the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
1515 IV, 14 | speed:" swiftly, because hastening towards the fulness of the
1516 IV, 31 | done all his work at one hasty stroke, and possesses neither
1517 IV, 20 | was such an infringement hazarded? In what God believing?
1518 IV, 35 | rejected, is become the head-stone of the corner. This is the
1519 IV, 38 | that men would rush down headlong over it, He placed them
1520 III, 24 | comes the promise of the heaenly dew, and afterwards that
1521 II, 2 | other sun of milder and healthier ray, because he sees not
1522 IV, 11 | nobody uses a physician for healthy persons, so will no one
1523 IV, 18 | John is offended when he hears of the miracles of Christ,
1524 I, 13 | figuratively reducing Jupiter to a heated substance, and Juno to an
1525 IV, 22 | transfer of the obedient "heating" from Moses and Elias to
1526 I, 24 | pestilences, and His other heavier strokes, but even to His
1527 III, 6 | with their ears they hear heavily, and their eyes have they
1528 IV, 14 | praise for the spirit of heaviness." Now since Christ, as soon
1529 IV, 9 | the expiation of a perfect hebdomad; and because the virtue
1530 I, 13 | single floweret from the hedgerow, I say not from the meadows;
1531 IV, 40 | with me hath lifted up his heel against me." And without
1532 IV, 15 | calves from the flocks of the heifers, while they chant to the
1533 II, 10 | that is to say, in the heights of heaven, from which the
1534 III, 14 | darts of the devil, and the helmet of salvation, and the sword
1535 IV, 19 | and then as assistants and helpers: "Daughters, hear my words
1536 V, 3 | himself in a way which quite helps our side, as being the result
1537 I, 1pref | superseding the second, but henceforward to be considered the first
1538 IV, 39 | and that they were not the heralds of any other god than the
1539 IV, 15 | goodly houses, and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply,
1540 I, 15 | and unmade, and by reason hereof eternal. With this matter
1541 III, 11 | foolishly did our Pontic heresiarch act in this too. As if it
1542 | Hereupon
1543 I, 13 | majority of the philosophers hesitated to assign a beginning and
1544 II, 19 | and by laborious services hewing out a fealty which was (
1545 IV, 15 | that are lifted up shall be hewn down, and such as are lofty
1546 IV, 27 | sign." For a vast age he hides his own light from men,
1547 IV, 8 | a suitable one, from the hiding-place of His infancy, for which
1548 I, 13 | Persian magi, the Egyptian hierophants, and the Indian gymnosophists.
1549 IV, 33 | the words: "That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination
1550 IV, 31 | they gather men from the highways and the hedges. In other
1551 II, 16 | and whatsoever else is a hinderance to the evil. So, again,
1552 IV, 27 | disparager, those who were hindering the law ought to have been
1553 III, 16 | other (God), then Christ hinders him, because Christ was
1554 IV, 13 | number I find figurative hints up and down the Creator'
1555 III, 13 | Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite," by reason of their kindred
1556 IV, 24 | cockatrice den and on the hole of the young asps without
1557 IV, 27 | SHOW RATHER THAN INWARD HOLINESS.SCRIPTURE ABOUNDS WITH ADMONITIONS
1558 III, 24 | phantom from first to last! O hollow pretence of a mighty promise!~
1559 II, 22 | a sweet savour from the holocaust of Noah, yet what pleasure
1560 V, 5 | sacrifices and of savoury holocausts? What is weaker than the
1561 II, 25 | of his name, but with a home-thrust blow at the sin which he
1562 IV, 36 | accordingly went down to their homes, one rejected, the other
1563 IV, 17 | are sweeter than honey and honeycombs." He then has taunted men
1564 IV, 43conc| there." For just so many honorary companions were required
1565 IV, 17 | these words, "This people honoureth me with their lips, but
1566 V, 20 | Benjamin," his dignity in the honours of the Pharisee he now reckons
1567 I, 29 | matrimony does not require the hook and scythe of sanctity,
1568 I, 26 | JUSTICE, MARCION'S GOD IS HOPELESSLY WEAK AND UNGODLIKE. HE DISLIKES
1569 III, 18 | mere unicorn with its one horn, or a minotaur with two;
1570 III, 18 | cross, and in this manner "horned," He is both now pushing
1571 IV, 7 | astonishment, they would feel horror. It would not be admiration,
1572 III, 13 | to seek His foe, not on horseback, or in chariot, or from
1573 IV, 34 | let them hear them!" event hose who did not believe them
1574 IV, 29 | enemies round about." By Hoses He uttered the threat, "
1575 I, 1pref | you would not account it hospitable from its situation, so is
1576 V, 18 | rulers of this world," what a host of Creator Gods there must
1577 III, 21 | that is, the provocation of hostilities; so that you here learn
1578 I, 18 | and Tatius Cloacina, and Hostilius Fear, and Metellus Alburnus,
1579 II, 18 | might thus be put to all hot-blooded injury, whilst by the permission
1580 IV, 39 | the Mount of Olives." Fit hours for an audience there also
1581 IV, 26 | was which in the beginning hovered upon the waters. Whose kingdom
1582 V, 4 | when he said just before, "Howbeit, then, ye serve them which
1583 IV, 23 | but why does this most humane and merciful God reject
1584 IV, 15 | rich'); and man shall be humbled," even he that exalts himself
1585 I, 13 | will, however, come down to humbler objects. A single floweret
1586 II, 14 | but also makes alive; who humbles, and yet exalts; who "creates
1587 V, 5 | or the Greeks, when they hunted after a wisdom which they
1588 IV, 1 | spears(which are a kind of hunting instruments) into pruning-hooks;"
1589 III, 23 | the cry" wherewith it had hurried Him away to the cross. And
1590 IV, 4 | he had been in so great a hurry to send out his apostles
1591 III, 23 | they made into useless and hurtful objects of worship;" in
1592 V, 7 | soldiers, and shepherds, and husbandmen. But he wanted divine authority.
1593 V, 18 | be in subjection to their husbands:" what reason does he give
1594 I, 14 | not disdain its Maker. You hypocrite, however much of abstinence
1595 IV, 29 | account He pronounced them "hypocrites," because they could "discern
1596 II, 14 | idolatry, worshipping the ibis and the crocodile in preference
1597 II, 2 | intelligently, you treat of Him ignorantly; nay, you accuse Him with
1598 III, 7 | appeared in majesty, while they ignore the fact that He was to
1599 III, 6 | follow that He was both ignored and slain by them, who were
1600 IV, 20 | was one of long abounding ill health, for which she knew
1601 IV, 34 | reproved Herod, because he had illegally married the wife of his
1602 IV, 7 | the place and the work of illumination according to the prophecy
1603 V, 11 | setting forth the glory which illumined the person of Moses from
1604 V, 20 | the suffering, but only illusion. But "those things which
1605 III, 11 | PUTATIVE NATIVITY.~All these illusions of an imaginary corporeity
1606 I, 11 | indeed if the flesh were only illusory? For it was all the more
1607 I, 13 | OF GOD. THIS WORTHINESS ILLUSTRATED BY REFERENCES TO THE HEATHEN
1608 V, 10 | flesh or body, which he illustrates by fleshly and corporeal
1609 IV, 34 | be also of use to me in illustrating the subsequent parable of
1610 II, 19 | PASSAGES FROM THEM QUOTED IN ILLUSTRATION OF THIS ATTRIBUTE.~But even
1611 IV, 22 | could not have had their images, or statues, or likenesses;
1612 IV, 31 | walked every one in the imagination of their evil heart." "I
1613 III, 24 | affection) at first was imbued with earthly blessings through
1614 V, 12 | therefore, that Marcion's god imitates the Creator's conduct, who
1615 I, 9 | likewise uncertain some immense region indeed, one undoubtedly
1616 IV, 34 | all up through the vast immensity of height and depth. It
1617 I, 29 | not, according to Marcion, immersed in the water of the sacrament,
1618 II, 9 | of divinity, such as an immortal soul, freedom and its own
1619 I, 23 | in rationality if it be impaired in any way else. For only
1620 IV, 16 | furtherance of it, without at all impairing the prescription of the
1621 IV, 8 | because it was eluded as by an impalpable disguise, which, if there
1622 IV, 7 | else could He better have imparted it, than to such as were
1623 IV, 3 | Paul, who would with equal impartiality have marked them with censure,
1624 IV, 35 | PROOFS THAT HE IS NOT THE IMPASSIBLE BEING MARCION IMAGINED.~
1625 II, 18 | GOOD, WHICH THE MARCIONITES IMPEACHED, SUCH AS THE LEX TALIONIS.
1626 V, 13 | apostle recoils from all impeachment of the law. I, however,
1627 IV, 22 | disciples three witnesses of the impending vision and voice. And this
1628 II, 16 | patience on account of the impenitent, and pre-eminent resources
1629 I, 22 | inaugurated in the world under his imperial sway!~
1630 II, 4 | operative than its wont, with no imperious word, but with friendly
1631 I, 13 | shameless followers with haughty impertinence fall upon the Creator's
1632 I, 25 | his conceptions into some imperturbable and listless god (and then
1633 III, 23 | time of Christ, for the impiety wherewith they both rejected
1634 V, 17 | already infected with the implanted germ of sin. "We," says
1635 II, 16 | cautery; and even blame his implements as rough tools of his art.
1636 IV, 15 | another passage He forbids all implicit trust in man, and likewise
1637 III, 19 | cross. And again, when He implores His Father's help, He says, "
1638 V, 19 | the school of Epicurus, implying that the Lord is stupid
1639 IV, 26 | because of his importunity." Impoprtant, however, the recent god
1640 IV, 36 | XXXVI. THE PARABLES OF THE IMPORTUNATE WIDOW, AND OF THE PHARISEE
1641 IV, 36 | God the judge whom we must importune with prayer, and not Himself,
1642 I, 28 | Marcion's god. Why then impose sanctity upon our most infirm
1643 II, 4 | a reason previous to the imposition of the law, it also amounted
1644 IV, 39 | received whose very equal in imposture he is, inasmuch as he (equally
1645 I, 29 | baptism, as if even generative impotents did not all receive their
1646 II, 15 | been (hardened enough) to imprecate spontaneously on themselves
1647 IV, 41 | woe must be understood the imprecation and threat of an angry and
1648 IV, 27 | of the law. But all these imprecations He uttered in order to tarnish
1649 II, 13 | ground; for it had lost its impregnability through the foe, unless
1650 II, 25 | thou, Adam? but with an impressive and earnest voice, and with
1651 IV, 38 | bids the denarius of man's imprint to be rendered to His Caesar, (
1652 IV, 23 | them. This antithesis is impudent enough, since it throws
1653 II, 7 | in man, according to the impulses of his liberty (for who
1654 II, 3 | sudden or adventitious or impulsive emotion, because it has
1655 III, 11 | production of man; dilate on the impure and shameful tortures of
1656 IV, 28 | He means that all these imputations would come forth to the
1657 I, 16 | incorporeal; of animate and inanimate; of vocal and mute of moveable
1658 I, 7 | attribute of supremacy would be inappropriate to these, although they
1659 IV, 21 | of the body, forthwith to inaugurate the light of life with tears,
1660 I, 22 | the Divine Being might be inaugurated in the world under his imperial
1661 II, 16 | with others, that man was inbreathed by God into a living soul,
1662 IV, 17 | gave me motion with His inbreathing. Now again He names me His
1663 I, 23 | so propitious, too, as to incense against man that other God
1664 IV, 41 | and threat of an angry and incensed Master, unless Judas was
1665 III, 15 | that) of His nativity, and incidentally of His name Emmanuel, let
1666 IV, 10 | can belong to him who is incompetent even to condemn, and whether
1667 IV, 15 | indeed with riches, is not an incongruity to God, for by the help
1668 IV, 16 | instructed by God act on this incongruous liberty of the will and
1669 II, 25 | trifles, weak points, and inconsistencies, as you deemed them. God
1670 II, 23 | will have it that He is inconstant in respect of persons, sometimes
1671 IV, 9 | supererogatory, or as patient, or as inconstant-provided, Marcion, I drive you from
1672 V, 16 | untruth? In short, it is incontestable that the emissary, and the
1673 I, 16 | of things corporeal and incorporeal; of animate and inanimate;
1674 II, 1 | METHODS OF MARCION'S ARGUMENT INCORRECT AND ABSURD. THE PROPER COURSE
1675 IV, 17 | of which it was capable, inculcating a benevolence which as yet
1676 V, 20 | the diversity, he avoids inculpating the regular mysteries of
1677 V, 15 | has despised. It is then incumbent on Marcion now to display
1678 II, 9 | sin under the threat of incurring death, which was meant to
1679 IV, 16 | than by the promise of (indefinite) vengeance. Both results,
1680 IV, 35 | no limits to forgiveness, indefinitely charging you "not to bear
1681 II, 8 | have been by liberty and independence of will, but rather by the
1682 I, 8 | end. God, moreover, is as independent of beginning and end as
1683 I, 13 | Egyptian hierophants, and the Indian gymnosophists. The very
1684 IV, 15 | therefore, "woe" is a word indicative of malediction, or of some
1685 I, 25 | this opinion of the divine indifference, has removed from him all
1686 IV, 19 | explained. He was justly indignant, that persons so very near
1687 III, 7 | deformed with every kind of indignity, but the second as glorious
1688 IV, 38 | make them the occasion of indirectly mooring a subject which
1689 II, 16 | sternness. For all these are as indispensable to severity as severity
1690 IV, 22 | companions of his Christ in their indissoluble connection with Him, suggest
1691 IV, 39 | Son of man, are both alike indissolubly connected with that event.
1692 IV, 14 | my heart," says He, "hath indited a very good word." This
1693 I, 13 | regularity, and law of those individual elements which contribute
1694 IV, 10 | the book of Daniel, so to induce them to reflect as to show
1695 IV, 16 | was even then a sufficient inducement to me to do to others what
1696 II, 17 | very circumstance which induces you to think there is another
1697 IV, 12 | of His disciples, for He indulged them with the relief of
1698 IV, 29 | depreciator of the works and the indulgences of the Creator, that I may
1699 II, 4 | kindly blessings, from His indulgent bounties, from His gracious
1700 IV, 10 | itself to such a pitch of infatuation as, on the one hand, to
1701 V, 17 | astray, which he has already infected with the implanted germ
1702 IV, 34 | poor man dwells, and the infernal place of torment. "Hell" (
1703 V, 3 | Acts. Their truth may be inferred from their agreement with
1704 I, 14 | those very creatures which infest your couch and house, the
1705 V, 11 | the praying Ninevites. How inflexible was He at the tears of Hezekiah!
1706 II, 14 | deserved, however, to be influenced to his destruction, who
1707 V, 1intro| should be glad if you would inform us under what bill of lading
1708 III, 2 | fore-announcement. Faith, when informed by such a process, might
1709 V, 12 | this view it is that he informs us how "we must all appear
1710 IV, 35 | with judgment to avenge the infraction of His precepts? If He really
1711 IV, 20 | new law, should violently infringe that law by which she was
1712 I, 13 | objects, and so with much ingenuity cloaks its own disgrace,
1713 III, 17 | shall be my Christ, be He inglorious, be He ignoble, be He dishonoured;
1714 IV, 24 | provisions from them with inhumanity and inhospitality, it will
1715 II, 3 | acted. When, however, an initial act had been once done by
1716 IV, 22 | reformer thereof; one the initiator of the Old Testament, the
1717 II, 13 | benefits with good instead of injuring. Indeed, the fear of judgment
1718 I, 23 | benevolence, even when operating injuriously, might be deemed to some
1719 IV, 20 | avenging God. Now, behold an inkling of the Creator's failings
1720 V, 9 | arrive at the (eastern)" inn." Perhaps, too, there was
1721 I, 20 | Marcion did not so much innovate on the rule (of faith) by
1722 V, 1intro| character of a disciple and an inquirer; that so I may even thus
1723 II, 25 | lightening it. In like manner He inquires of Cain where his brother
1724 IV, 35 | acts, to busy Himself with inquiries into the qualities and details
1725 IV, 10 | sense, do not admit this insane position of the heretics,
1726 II, 17 | yet the world itself is inscribed with the goodness of its
1727 II, 17 | goodness of its Maker, and the inscription is read by each man's conscience.
1728 I, 24 | but even to His creeping insects. In what respect do you
1729 IV, 23 | offers himself to Him as an inseparable companion? If it were from
1730 II, 25 | eat), and live for ever." Inserting thus the particle of present
1731 IV, 27 | you do not cleanse your inside part," that is, the soul;
1732 V, 3 | in," etc., he gives us an insight into his reason for acting
1733 II, 22 | want of nothing, some very insignificant gift, will the amount and
1734 IV, 3 | III. MARCION INSINUATED THE UNTRUSTWORTHINESS OF
1735 III, 16 | for the very purpose of insinuating himself as the Creator's,
1736 IV, 29 | unimpaired that in as far as He insists on the Creator as an object
1737 IV, 26 | Father above, looking up with insolent and audacious eyes to the
1738 I, 7 | worthless menials strut insolently in the names of kings your
1739 I, 9 | we shall drift into those insoluble questions which the apostle
1740 IV, 35 | Priest of God the Father, He inspected them according to the hidden
1741 IV, 35 | disease itself, and of the inspection by the high priest. The
1742 II, 21 | Him with fickleness and instability for contradictions in His
1743 II, 26 | that the nation was at the instant really given to Moses. That
1744 V, 12 | last moment, and from their instantaneous death, whilst encountering
1745 IV, 14 | to the Jews, who were the instigators of hatred against Him: "
1746 IV, 2 | John and Matthew first instil faith into us; whilst of
1747 V, 16 | cause God shall send them an instinct of delusion (to believe
1748 I, 14 | endued with a profusion. of instincts and resources, thereby teaching
1749 I, 14 | USE THE CREATOR'S WORKS IN INSTITUTING HIS OWN RELIGION.~Now, when
1750 V, 4 | solemn assemblies." The institutions which He set up Himself,
1751 IV, 35 | examples for the purpose of instructing me from Him whom He yet
1752 IV, 1 | diverse, gods one for each Instrument, or Testament as it is more
1753 III, 10 | God did not require the instrumentality of false or even of real
1754 IV, 16 | myself violence, wrong, insult, deceit, and evils of like
1755 V, 15 | this, that the heavenly intelligences gazed with admiration on "
1756 V, 14 | for God, but it was not an intelligent zeal: they were, in fact,
1757 II, 2 | you do not even deny God intelligently, you treat of Him ignorantly;
1758 III, 18 | cure? Did he not here also intend to show the power of our
1759 I, 26 | them; or forbid sins, if he intends not to punish them, but
1760 IV, 41 | Ergo tu fulius Dei es" inter-rogatively, and not affirmatively?
1761 V, 13 | forsooth, that the Creator intercalated His law for the mere purpose
1762 IV, 18 | Israel's faith was in no way interesting! But not from the fact (
1763 II, 7 | the fact that God did not interfere to prevent the occurrence
1764 IV, 12 | Sabbath I thus rule. If Christ interfered with the Sabbath, He simply
1765 I, 20 | so many years with this interference with Thy revelation, until
1766 IV, 28 | Christ. Moses voluntarily interferes with brothers who were quarrelling,
1767 V, 7 | that no Christian should intermarry with a heathen, he maintains
1768 V, 6 | revealed He also in the intermediate space of time announced
1769 V, 21 | suppose, to carry out his interpolating process even to the number
1770 IV, 39 | be impossible for you to interpose any distinction between
1771 I, 24 | greater perfection by not interposing help than by helping. Now,
1772 III, 4 | thereby his own revelation and interposition, the self-same reason imposed
1773 II, 9 | afflatus, not spirit. Some interpreters of the Greek, without reflecting
1774 II, 27 | He who descends, He who interrogates, He who demands, He who
1775 II, 25 | not to be read in a merely interrogative tone, Where art thou, Adam?
1776 III, 4 | he so long refrain from interrupting it. What held him back at
1777 IV, 33 | new has begun, with John intervening between them, there will
1778 IV, 23 | enough who, without the intervention of any precept of the law,
1779 IV, 41 | prophecy of Daniel that He intimated to them that He was "the
1780 IV, 21 | discovered in them prophetic intimations of what should one day come
1781 V, 19 | Judaizing gospellers have intraduced all these things out of
1782 I, 9 | uncertain, doubtful, and intricate points, by the certain,
1783 II, 9 | reality, is yet wanting in its intrinsic power; it is destitute of
1784 IV, 3 | being obliterated by the inundation of falsifiers in which case
1785 IV, 25 | is no longer good who has invaded another's good (domains)
1786 V, 2 | revealed after John, than invalidate "the old things" and confirm "
1787 IV, 6 | and so let him begin to investigate whether Christ be Marcion'
1788 III, 17 | right that His conduct be investigated according to the rule of
1789 V, 17 | were extremely accurate in investigating such a point. But of what
1790 III, 24 | substance of angels, even by the investiture of an incorruptible nature,
1791 IV, 15 | belief in his own goodness, invidiously contrasted with it the Creator'
1792 IV, 7 | was entirely wrong (in his invocation), then He was neither Jesus
1793 IV, 26 | any one, with such a form, invokes another god and not the
1794 IV, 18 | even in their very act of invoking the Creator in that vast
1795 V, 13 | and "the Jew which is one inwardly" will be a subject of the
1796 V, 10 | sort of body, he of course ipso facto proclaimed in the
1797 IV, 22 | how he destroys them: he irradiates them with his glory! How
1798 I, 23 | itself be detected in any irrationality. More easily will an evil
1799 I, 2 | became blunted by the very irregularity of his researches; and when
1800 III, 11 | enough that they are utterly irrelevant, when we teach how much
1801 II, 14 | send forth bears, for their irreverence to the prophet.~
1802 I, 28 | salvation! No farmer will irrigate ground that will yield him
1803 I, 1pref | more deceitful than the Ister, more craggy than Caucasus.
1804 V, 9 | syllable RE always implies iteration (or happening again). We
1805 IV, 15 | who sleep upon beds of ivory, and deliciously stretch
1806 II, 10 | beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald,
1807 IV, 36 | the audacity (of the old Jebusites) which offended David, and
1808 V, 19 | very heathen, laugh and jeer. For "God hath chosen the
1809 IV, 10 | also two Christs and two Jesuses. Therefore, since the appellation
1810 IV, 2 | Gospel not, to be sure, of Jewry, but of Pontus having become
1811 IV, 11 | to Christ, and Christ to Joan, the latter, of course,
1812 V, 12 | power over the person of Job that his "strength might
1813 IV, 27 | sake of private advantage joining house to house, so as to
1814 IV, 10 | his repentance; and how Jonathan the son of Saul blotted
1815 IV, 14 | Christ. Surely gladness and joyous exultation is promised to
1816 IV, 39 | both the sorrows and the joys, and the catastrophes and
1817 V, 3 | OF THIS EPISTLE AGAINST JUDAIZERS, YET ITS TEACHING IS SHOWN
1818 V, 19 | our false apostles and Judaizing gospellers have intraduced
1819 V, 12 | must all appear before the judgement-seat of Christ, that every one
1820 I, 7 | congregation of the mighty; He judgeth among the gods." And again, "
1821 IV, 25 | THE WISE. THIS CONCEALMENT JUDICIOUSLY EFFECTED BY THE CREATOR.
1822 III, 6 | regarded as a wonder-working juggler, and an enemy in His doctrines.
1823 I, 13 | a heated substance, and Juno to an aerial one (according
1824 I, 13 | disgrace, figuratively reducing Jupiter to a heated substance, and
1825 IV, 18 | her faith, she heard her justification by faith through her repentance
1826 III, 15 | what the Greeks call the katachresis of a term, by its improper
1827 III, 15 | of His dispensations by katachrestic abuse of words. Who is this
1828 II, 25 | God, I suppose, with His keener vision, from on high was
1829 II, 25 | escapes not the notice of the keeper of your vineyard or your
1830 IV, 9 | makes concessions to the keepers of the law. And yet, because
1831 II, 19 | of His saints." "The Lord keepeth all their bones; not one
1832 I, 23 | deliverer, I had almost said kidnapper, would even meet with condemnation
1833 I, 27 | and fear as your teacher. Kidnappers indeed are loved after this
1834 IV, 15 | their couches; who eat the kids from the flocks of the goats,
1835 V, 11 | flesh." Even if "the letter killeth, yet the Spirit giveth life;"
1836 II, 19 | from their own flesh and kin:" "keep their tongue from
1837 V, 16 | Christ belongs to a God who kindles the flames (of vengeance),
1838 II, 18 | obtained, even the more ready kindling of the fear of retaliation
1839 I, 4 | adduce, as an example, the kingdoms of the world, which, though
1840 IV, 41 | moreover, to be betrayed with a kiss, for He was the Son indeed
1841 IV, 18 | the Lord's feet with her kisses, bathed them with her tears,
1842 III, 24 | They fly, as if they were kites; they fly as clouds, and
1843 I, 23 | which is another's, who kneels to his god on ground which
1844 III, 16 | circumcision being effected by a knife of stone, that is, (by the
1845 IV, 36 | knowledge of the law. "Thou knowest," says He, "the commandments." "
1846 IV, 35 | observation; neither do they say, La here! or, lo there! for,
1847 IV, 24 | from, the Creator. "The labourer is worthy of his hire."
1848 IV, 24 | corroboration, for He judges that labouring oxen are as labourers worthy
1849 III, 13 | taught to lance before they lacerate; swathed at first in sunshine
1850 IV, 40 | was His body, because He lacked the truth of bodily substance,
1851 IV, 36 | him: "One thing thou yet lackest: sell all that thou hast,
1852 V, 6 | were foolish, weak, and lacking in honour; once also was
1853 IV, 24 | Creator brought them forth laden with their spoils of gold
1854 IV, 19 | Lord called these wealthy ladies "Rise up, ye women that
1855 II, 14 | ingratitude. Against young lads, too, did He send forth
1856 I, 17 | fit that God should have lain hid. It will be necessary
1857 IV, 20 | by this crossing over the lake. "The Lord," says the psalmist, "
1858 IV, 20 | Sea, ampler than all the lakes of Judaea. How the sea yawns
1859 IV, 24 | shall hear; then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and
1860 II, 10 | saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus,
1861 III, 13 | They are, I ween, taught to lance before they lacerate; swathed
1862 IV, 31 | out of "the streets and lanes of the city." Let us see
1863 III, 7 | all people, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion
1864 I, 1pref | Diogenes used to go about, lantern in hand, at mid-day to find
1865 V, 17 | giving it the new rifle (of Laodicean), as if he were extremely
1866 IV, 21 | uncleanness, in his mother's lap; nibbling at her breast;
1867 IV, 36 | giving to the poor, was very largely diffused through the pages
1868 IV, 35 | with the Creator there is a larger grace, when He sets no limits
1869 I, 27 | bloodthirsty arena, and the lascivious theatre? Why in persecutions
1870 V, 17 | Creator, adding this at lasts" even as others," who, of
1871 III, 24 | prophecy, indeed, has been very lately fulfilled in an expedition
1872 IV, 42 | All that looked upon me laughed me to scorn; they did shoot
1873 IV, 15 | shall mourn, who now are laughing. For as it is written in
1874 I, 9 | doubt, that altars have been lavished on unknown gods; that, however,
1875 IV, 13 | true Joshua took out of the layer of the Jordan, and placed
1876 IV, 42 | in order that He might Le reckoned amongst the transgressors.
1877 V, 6 | the fallen angels and the leader of transgression himself,
1878 II, 19 | fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and
1879 I, 24 | saves but few, and so rather leans to the alternative of not
1880 I, 2 | with a little leaven he leavened the whole lump of the faith,
1881 I, 24 | likewise imperfect, in that it leaves to destruction the more
1882 IV, 39 | to receive for Himself," leaving money to His servants wherewithal
1883 I, 23 | not even an honest one is legitimately due, be defended as a rational
1884 IV, 22 | loins, or calves of the legs, did he want to behold,
1885 IV, 17 | eradicate the fruit of the money lent, the more easily to accustom
1886 IV, 18 | as infirmity which then lessened the greatness John.We have
1887 IV, 33 | relieves his lord's debtors by lessening their debts with a view
1888 I, 27 | by not avenging it, and lets it go free by not punishing
1889 V, 3 | mountains may be filled up and levelled, and the crooked and the
1890 IV, 34 | the prescription of the (Levirate) law for, as his brother
1891 V, 4 | indicate that He is the Liberator who was once the Master?
1892 I, 1pref | civilisation; they indulge their libidinous desires without restraint,
1893 V, 9 | Psalm, "His enemies shall lick the dust" (of course, as
1894 II, 9 | thereby a living soul, not a life-giving spirit, has distinguished
1895 IV, 34 | heretics, during your present lifetime, a warning that Moses and
1896 IV, 36 | worship in humility, as the lifter-up of the humble, not in pride,
1897 II, 25 | transgression, and, so far, of lightening it. In like manner He inquires
1898 V, 12 | expressly, what he touched but lightly in his first epistle, where
1899 I, 4 | deprecatingly ask, "To whom will ye liken me?" Human circumstances
1900 V, 8 | confidently say: he who has likened the unity of our body throughout
1901 I, 29 | man and beast. Now, if any limitation is set to marrying such
1902 III, 1intro| available resources, and in no limping way. In our compendious
1903 IV, 42 | nothing to wrap in the linen, nothing to lay in the new
1904 IV, 33 | PRIDE. JOHN BAPTIST THE LINK BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE
1905 I, 13 | comes round; as also the lions of Mithras are philosophical
1906 IV, 8 | known to those who were listening to Him.~
1907 III, 6 | in the Jewish prophetic literature, let the reader remember,
1908 I, 18 | they blush to get their livelihood by help of the very stars
1909 IV, 24 | is not god over a single lizard? Happily the Creator has
1910 IV, 24 | silver vessels, and with loads besides of raiment and unleavened
1911 I, 25 | disdain, indignation, spleen, loathing, displeasure. Now, since
1912 IV, 8 | whatever with the domestic localities of the Creator's Christ,
1913 I, 17 | the creation of) all the locusts. What superior god is this,
1914 I, 6 | the other, neither of them loftier or lowlier than the other.
1915 IV, 32 | SORT OF SORITES, AS THE LOGICIANS CALL IT, TO SHOW THAT THE
1916 I, 26 | the mere exposition of his lonely goodness, in which they
1917 IV, 40 | law was this, who actually longed to keep its passover! Could
1918 IV, 25 | while "Sion He left as a look-out in a vineyard." See, then,
1919 IV, 14 | dwelleth on high, and yet looketh on the humble things that
1920 IV, 34 | wife, after she had been loosed from her husband not less
1921 IV, 37 | works of mercy. So also "he loosened the bands of wickedness.
1922 V, 9 | life, and as the result of losing it becomes dead. To the
1923 V, 16 | or (as Marcion would be loth to admit) One like the Creator "
1924 IV, 42 | garments amongst them, and cast lots upon my vesture." You may
1925 IV, 42 | Christ! He calls with a loud voice to the Father, "Into
1926 IV, 23 | he possibly seem to be a lover of little children, which
1927 II, 27 | written in David. In which lowering of His condition He received
1928 I, 5 | is plurality in the very lowest number after one. After
1929 I, 6 | neither of them loftier or lowlier than the other. If you deny
1930 V, 11 | much has been endured in loyalty to him, in which Christ'
1931 III, 4 | capricious and uncertain; lukewarm (in his resentment) towards
1932 II, 8 | OVERCOMES EVEN THE ANGEL WHICH LURED HIM TO HIS FALL, WHEN REPENTANT
1933 IV, 18 | might quench the doubt which lurked in his question: "Art thou
1934 II, 25 | where Adam was, both while lurking and when eating of the forbidden
1935 II, 10 | nature, through his own lusting after the wickedness which
1936 V, 10 | have been.) The Februarian lustrations will perhaps answer him (
1937 V, 17 | manifest that sins, and lusts of the flesh, and unbelief,
1938 I, 13 | crops, ploughed up with lusty arms, and watered with baths.
1939 II, 18 | pamper the appetite of the luxurious. Of course the Creator deserved
1940 IV, 15 | with him." So also in Ps. lxi.: "Do not desire riches;
1941 II, 17 | existed before all your Lycurguses and Solons. There is not
1942 I, 27 | customary pleasures of the maddening circus, the bloodthirsty
1943 IV, 26 | near unto you?" For the magicians who stood before Pharaoh
1944 IV, 33 | knoweth your hearts," he magnified the power of that God who
1945 I, 13 | they considered indeed its magnitude, and strength, and power,
1946 V, 4 | neither will He condemn the maintainer of circumcision. Now, if
1947 III, 7 | CHRIST, ONE LOWLY, THE OTHER MAJESTIC. THIS FACT POINTS TO TWO
1948 II, 4 | because He was a stranger to malefaction. We shall see what reasons
1949 IV, 42 | the murderer. Moreover two malefactors are crucified around Him,
1950 I, 22 | his purpose he would be malicious enough, for both wishing
1951 I, 18 | leading star, or some weird malignants, or Saturn in quadrature,
1952 II, 28 | touching the weaknesses and malignities, and the other (alleged),
1953 IV, 15 | and approbation when they maltreated (24 those whom the absolutely
1954 IV, 24 | it upon others and then manfested it forth conformably to
1955 III, 20 | that is to say, a holy manhood, wherein God's Spirit might
1956 III, 9 | ANGELS, AND THE PRE-INCARNATE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SON OF GOD.~Now,
1957 IV, 43conc| MERE PHANTOM. MARCION'S MANIPULATION OF THE GOSPEL ON THIS POINT.~
1958 V, 20 | Him as thus "found" in the manners of a man, he in fact affirmed
1959 III, 11 | animal in other words, the manufactory for the production of man;
1960 I, 16 | counterparts are imputed, marking as they do diversity in
1961 V, 2 | should arise, whilst Christ marks the period of the separation
1962 IV, 34 | in the form of unlawful marriages and of adultery, pronouncing
1963 V, 17 | than the adroitness of a Marrucinian, for you here deny him flesh
1964 I, 18 | Saturn in quadrature, or Mars at the trine. The Marcionites
1965 III, 14 | of the Word, without any martial gear. The above-mentioned "
1966 V, 19 | of their own stores, and Martian has applied them to constitute
1967 IV, 21 | been fulfilled concerning martydoms which were to happen, and
1968 IV, 39 | open" confession made in a martyr's cause, who "prevails with
1969 I, 14 | been affected by you as a martyrdom), you will have to associate
1970 IV, 10 | in the furnace with His martyrs: "the fourth, who was like
1971 III, 11 | since he had put on the mere mask of his substance, to act
1972 I, 1pref | Sarmatian, more inhuman than the Massagete, more audacious than an
1973 IV, 20 | itself in two solidified masses, and so, out of the interval
1974 IV, 13 | they were to be stones massive in their faith, which the
1975 IV, 39 | of Christ, He will be a match in the freeness of His gifts
1976 IV, 24 | most useless one. For what mattered it to them that the kingdom
1977 IV, 43conc| drawn from His doctrines, maxims, affections, feelings, miracles,
1978 IV, 14 | I were in a forest, or a meadow, or an orchard of apples.
1979 I, 13 | hedgerow, I say not from the meadows; a single little shellfish
1980 IV, 21 | time, the scanty and final meal of the widow of Sarepta
1981 II, 3 | reckoned to possess an age, measureless in extent and endless in
1982 I, 8 | is only the arbiter and measurer of a beginning and an end.~
1983 V, 13 | must also appertain the media whereby these attributes
1984 II, 27 | converse in proportion to the mediocrity of man's estate. He pleases
1985 II, 19 | dwell together in unity;" meditating (as they do) day and night
1986 IV, 21 | copious ablution, nor the meditation of salt and honey; nor did
1987 IV, 4 | clue of our discussion, meeting every effort of our opponents
1988 I, 7 | because another principle meets us respecting the Supreme
1989 IV, 40 | other edible thing, say) a melon, which Marcion must have
1990 II, 18 | after the cucumbers and melons of the Egyptians. Recognise
1991 I, 1pref | the angry North. Waters melt only by fires; their rivers
1992 II, 20 | to have given back their men-children also to the Hebrews.~
1993 IV, 19 | hear," it amounted to a menace to such as would not hear.
1994 IV, 39 | business to warn off from a mendaciously assumed name the disciples (
1995 II, 28 | there was a far greater mendacity in your Christ, whose very
1996 V, 12 | much in the character of a mendicant. And yet of the removal
1997 IV, 4 | heresy, which is for ever mending the Gospels, and corrupting
1998 I, 7 | how often do worthless menials strut insolently in the
1999 IV, 17 | on the ground of his own mercifulness, how happens it that he
2000 IV, 15 | God even wisdom he further merited the attainment of the riches,