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2001 V, 2 | more. For this is now the mesh in which you are caught.
2002 IV, 17 | had addressed to them His messages both by the law and the
2003 IV, 28 | previously declared to the king's messengers, and then to the king himself,
2004 II, 24 | the word for repentance metanoia is formed, not from the
2005 III, 13 | OTHER PROPHECIES ALSO SIGNS. METAPHORICAL SENSE OF PROPER NAMES IN
2006 III, 14 | PROPHECIES IN THE PSALMS.MILITARY METAPHORS APPLIED TO CHRIST.~This
2007 I, 18 | and Hostilius Fear, and Metellus Alburnus, and a certain
2008 I, 19 | receive a fuller and more methodical treatment. Meanwhile it
2009 IV, 23 | infants as to have blessed the midwives in Egypt, when they protected
2010 IV, 13 | to Jerusalem." "They were mightily astonished at His doctrine;
2011 II, 20 | full at the time of their migration by the scanty comfort of
2012 IV, 26 | produces for me not a grain of miIlet-seed; or He who even from heaven
2013 II, 2 | assume some other sun of milder and healthier ray, because
2014 III, 24 | XXIV. CHRIST'S MILLENNIAL AND HEAVENLY GLORY IN COMPANY
2015 IV, 35 | had not been born, or if a millstone were hanged about his neck
2016 IV, 19 | clave to Christ, "which ministered unto Him of their substance,"
2017 III, 18 | with its one horn, or a minotaur with two; but Christ was
2018 IV, 42 | INCIDENTS OF THE PASSION MINUTELY COMPARED WITH PROPHECY.
2019 I, 14 | you make merry with those minuter animals, which their glorious
2020 IV, 18 | from the similarity of the miraculous evidences, that a prophet
2021 V, 3 | AND RESCUED FROM MARCION'S MISAPPLICATION. THE STRONG PROTESTS OF
2022 I, 23 | GOODNESS IRRATIONAL AND MISAPPLIED.~Here is another rule for
2023 V, 14 | BY THE APOSTLE FOR THEIR MISCONDUCT TO GOD; IN AS MUCH AS THAT
2024 IV, 15 | no man for even his own misdeeds. But you will say, He cannot
2025 V, 1intro| may land him without any misgiving, lest he should turn out
2026 IV, 1 | not been able, unless I am misinformed, to recognise the fact,
2027 IV, 15 | they who call you happy mislead you, and disturb the paths
2028 IV, 24 | chose also seventy other missionaries besides the twelve. Now
2029 V, 1intro| dismissed to their several missions. Wherefore, O shipmaster
2030 I, 1pref | a portion of it, full of mistakes, and then published it.
2031 IV, 29 | payment of "the very last mite," they treat of in the person
2032 I, 13 | round; as also the lions of Mithras are philosophical sacraments
2033 IV, 9 | contagious: wherever a man should mix himself with the sinner.
2034 III, 16 | for Him. But since he has mixed up the two, the expected
2035 V, 10 | soul which is within it mixes the poison of a wicked act.
2036 II, 23 | a slave to the idols of Moab and Sidon. What must the
2037 IV, 24 | of the Ammonites and the Moabites into the church, because,
2038 II, 27 | incapable of endurance to the moderate capacity of man, by such
2039 V, 9 | Solomon reigned over only the moderately-sized kingdom of Judah. "Yea,
2040 IV, 11 | also mutually differ about modes of conduct, having a prior
2041 IV, 11 | deity. But as it is, while modestly giving a reason why "the
2042 I, 1pref | by their sex softened to modesty. They uncover the breast,
2043 I, 25 | goodness, and that not in a modified way, but simply and solely.
2044 IV, 29 | For an attempt is made to modify this sense when it is applied
2045 I, 16 | and sterile; of arid and moist; of hot and cold. Man, too,
2046 IV, 18 | god for the working of so momentous a miracle as this, that
2047 II, 17 | his kingly state to the monarch of Babylon after his complete
2048 I, 1pref | Euxine, thou hast produced a monster more credible to philosophers
2049 I, 29 | MARCION'S DOCTRINE AND HIS OWN MONTANISM.~The flesh is not, according
2050 IV, 22 | IGNORANCE ACCOUNTED FOR ON MONTANIST PRINCIPLE.~You ought to
2051 IV, 20 | natural functions every month, and in childbirth, not
2052 I, 13 | a single stray wing of a moorfowl, I say nothing of the peacock,
2053 IV, 38 | the occasion of indirectly mooring a subject which He was not
2054 IV, 38 | question which the Sadducees mooted, who asked no question about
2055 IV, 38 | whereas He now purposely moots the point before them, and
2056 I, 27 | EFFECTS TO RELIGION AND MORALITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF SO WEAK
2057 II, 14 | class shall be accounted as morally bad, and the other be classed
2058 I, 2 | heretical proclivity), while morbidly brooding over the question
2059 IV, 17 | Christian, should he suspect a mote to be in his eye. Just as
2060 II, 6 | justice according to the motions of his will regarded, of
2061 I, 24 | in paradise, because He moulded him, not breathed him, into
2062 IV, 22 | one of whom was once the moulder of His people, the other
2063 IV, 14 | who said that those who mourned should laugh. Accordingly,
2064 IV, 14 | and the oil of joy for mourning, and the garment of praise
2065 I, 1pref | nuptial bond? What Pontic mouse ever had such gnawing powers
2066 IV, 21 | to pass, answered (as the mouthpiece of them all) the Lord's
2067 IV, 28 | light of day, and be in the mouths of men in consequence of
2068 IV, 31 | their idols; and I will move them to jealousy with those
2069 I, 16 | inanimate; of vocal and mute of moveable and stationary; of productive
2070 II, 8 | power of his will, when it moves in obedience to the laws
2071 I, 13 | Great Mother to the earth, mowed as to its crops, ploughed
2072 IV, 21 | the widow of Sarepta was multiplied by the blessing of the prophet
2073 IV, 42 | death, as if he were the murderer. Moreover two malefactors
2074 IV, 28 | He remarks also on their murmurs and taunts, in saying of
2075 I, 13 | manner, to fire, and the Muses to waters, and the Great
2076 I, 16 | inanimate; of vocal and mute of moveable and stationary;
2077 IV, 2 | singled out Luke for his mutilating process. Luke, however,
2078 V, 13 | MARCION PARTICULARLY HARD IN MUTILATION OF THIS EPISTLE.YET OUR
2079 V, 16 | out the corn should not be muzzled."~
2080 V, 9 | Perhaps, too, there was a mystic purpose in Christ's being
2081 IV, 10 | one may call it so) the mythic stories assign to Castor
2082 V, 11 | of Jezebel, the blood of Naborb, when he deprecated His
2083 IV, 10 | idolatry and of the blood of Naboth, obtained pardon because
2084 IV, 13 | twelve (minor prophets), Naburn: "For behold upon the mountain
2085 IV, 20 | rebuke the sea is calmed, Nahum is also verified: He rebuketh
2086 III, 18 | even by affixing Him with nails to the cross. Otherwise,
2087 IV, 40 | of a potter's field, as narrated in the Gospel of Matthew,
2088 I, 1pref | TO THE HERETIC MARCION, A NATIVE. HIS HERESY CHARACTERIZED
2089 IV, 8 | us, on that very account, Nazerenes after Him. For we are they
2090 IV, 39 | persecutions from one's nearest friends are predicted, and
2091 V, 2 | should not be put upon men's necks which their fathers even
2092 V, 13 | as they are also of his negligence and blindness. If, then,
2093 I, 20 | zeal against Judaism as a neophyte, he thought that there was
2094 IV, 7 | region of Zabulon and land of Nephthalim, and ye others who (inhabit)
2095 II, 25 | hand as if it were a bird's nest, and to whom heaven is a
2096 III, 13 | eastern magi wait on the new-born Christ, presenting to Him, (
2097 IV, 11 | sewed on the patch of your new-fangled heresy. I should like to
2098 V, 17 | no phantom but new, and newly born of a virgin by the
2099 IV, 21 | uncleanness, in his mother's lap; nibbling at her breast; long an infant;
2100 IV, 7 | For we must not be too nice in inquiring whether it
2101 I, 29 | sanctity, as do certain Nicolaitans in their maintenance of
2102 IV, 24 | His Christ, even as the ninetieth Psalm says to Him: "Upon
2103 II, 24 | destruction against the people of Nineveh, He must even on this argument
2104 IV, 8 | Tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla potest res,"
2105 II, 22 | savour from the holocaust of Noah, yet what pleasure could
2106 IV, 35 | compare it with the days of Noe and of Lot, which were dark
2107 IV, 36 | enough; because he was very noisy, not because he was wrong
2108 III, 16 | proportionately unsuitable to the non-Creator's Christ; and so indeed
2109 IV, 38 | had simply declared the non-existence of that to which the question
2110 IV, 28 | Christ of the simply good and non-judicial god. "Who," says he, "made
2111 IV, 19 | meaning when He resorts to non-literal words, saying "Who is my
2112 I, 28 | cases vain; and therefore a nonentity! in whose state, and condition,
2113 II, 9 | God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life, and
2114 II, 28 | and the other (alleged), notes (of the Creator), I too
2115 V, 11 | can willingly refrain from noticing to any greater length this
2116 II, 4 | added this to its original notification, that it first prepared
2117 III, 21 | you cannot get out of this notion of yours a basis for your
2118 I, 26 | being a stranger to all notions of severity and judicial
2119 IV, 36 | made known to him by public notoriety? "Those, however, who went
2120 II, 19 | even eternal death, "and to nourish them in their hunger," that
2121 V, 18 | course, Marcion alone), "but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even
2122 IV, 36 | the good;" sustaining and nourishing and assisting even Marcionites
2123 IV, 21 | O Christ, even in Thy novelties Thou art old! Accordingly,
2124 IV, 8 | enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla potest res," is even a sentence
2125 III, 8 | Christ's resurrection be nullified, ours also is destroyed.
2126 V, 17 | FOR MARCION'S CHRIST HERE. NUMEROUS PARALLELS BETWEEN THIS EPISTLE
2127 III, 13 | or from parapet, but from nurse's neck or nursemaid's back,
2128 III, 13 | but from nurse's neck or nursemaid's back, and so be destined
2129 V, 20 | the Jews, but their stupid obduracy, which he repudiates. These
2130 III, 17 | that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of His Son?" And
2131 IV, 35 | duty to render the true oblation to Almighty God even thanksgiving
2132 II, 18 | of their ceremonies and oblations, no one should blame them,
2133 I, 23 | upon strangers without any obligation of friendship, on the principle
2134 III, 22 | when they exchanged the obligations and burdens of the law for
2135 V, 2 | s Christ, of course) was obligatory, but without annulling the
2136 IV, 7 | account of fact, and thus obliges one to examine in what condition
2137 V, 4 | would earnestly have to obliterate the very mark of slavery
2138 IV, 3 | if by some deluge being obliterated by the inundation of falsifiers
2139 IV, 26 | recalling to notice (and not obliterating) those ancient wonders which
2140 V, 16 | God. But the folly of the obliteration is clearly seen. For as
2141 I, 22 | to aggravate his rival's obloquy by permitting His (evil)
2142 V, 11 | with the veil which still obscures Moses from their view, if
2143 III, 18 | grandeur, was the need of obscuring it in shadow, that the difficulty
2144 I, 27 | different matter from that obsequious homage you pay to the god
2145 V, 3 | as has been shown in our observations on your Gospel. It is thus
2146 IV, 17 | religion should denounce as obstinate and disobedient those whom
2147 V, 10 | but that when changed it obtains the kingdom. "For the dead
2148 V, 18 | what was the use of his obtruding this ignorance of the Creator,
2149 IV, 28 | the peace of brethren, and obviating their wrong. But of course
2150 IV, 35 | mankind. However, what was obviously required by the law He commanded
2151 II, 24 | recollection of a sin, and occasionally even from the unpleasantness
2152 IV, 39 | amidst the abundance and occupation of the world. Like this
2153 IV, 9 | Out of so many kinds of occupations, why indeed had He such
2154 V, 1intro| inasmuch as the beginning: occupies the first place in the condition
2155 II, 22 | the flesh of sheep, or the odour of burning victims? And
2156 I, 21 | ANNOUNCED THE REPEAL OF SOME OE GOD'S ANCIENT ORDINANCES.
2157 V, 17 | blindness of the people is offensive: "And who is blind, but
2158 II, 26 | deprecator of the Father, and the offerer of His own life for the
2159 II, 20 | or in order that their officers might on their benches sit
2160 IV, 14 | doctrine to what I may call His official proclamation as the Christ. "
2161 IV, 27 | because he would glory in the officious attentions of other people, (
2162 IV, 36 | He was not the destined offshoot from the root of Jesse,
2163 II, 15 | destined likewise for their offspring, previous to any merit on
2164 IV, 15 | themselves with the costliest ointments." Therefore, even if I could
2165 I, 8 | witness to a beginning; the oldness threatens an end. God, moreover,
2166 III, 5 | to derive His fortunate omens from the young of birds
2167 II, 19 | forward this beneficent, not onerous, purpose of the law, the
2168 II, 10 | diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire,
2169 V, 18 | to pray to God that this "open-mouthed utterance" might be continued
2170 I, 23 | accounted rational, when it operates without wrong to him who
2171 III, 5 | have to grapple with my opponent on a distinct issue and
2172 III, 16 | the Creator's, then Jesus opposes him, because Jesus was not
2173 V, 16 | before the Lord comes; "who opposeth and exalteth himself above
2174 V, 12 | whilst encountering the oppressions of anti-christ, undergo
2175 IV, 14 | He inveighs against the oppressors of the needy "What mean
2176 IV, 14 | forest, or a meadow, or an orchard of apples. I must therefore
2177 I, 17 | the existence of God must ordinarily be proved by his works;
2178 I, 11 | constituents, and the rest of its organic life; when even the error
2179 IV, 22 | meaning. For the Creator had originally formed His ancient people
2180 III, 23 | from them did the blasphemy originate); neither in the interval
2181 II, 22 | fashion of the ark; adapted to ornamentation for reasons totally remote
2182 I, 13 | watered with baths. Thus Osiris also, whenever he is buried,
2183 IV, 4 | more than that, they make ostentatious use of them. Proof out of
2184 I, 27 | gnashing of teeth in the outer darkness! He is purely and
2185 IV, 34 | marriage. It sets forth in bold outline the end of both of them,
2186 I, 25 | goodness, we have in these outlines of our argument shown it
2187 IV, 29 | anxiety respecting them as an outrage against his liberality?
2188 III, 18 | in a sitting posture with outstretched hands, when in such a conflict
2189 V, 13 | he also is who is "a Jew outwardly;" because the apostle would
2190 IV, 30 | because after it comes the oven, or, if you please, the
2191 V, 20 | it was sophisticated with over-much learning. This being the
2192 V, 1intro| if you have never thrown overboard or tampered with a freight,
2193 IV, 39 | warned, "lest their hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness,
2194 II, 8 | SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS. OVERCOMES EVEN THE ANGEL WHICH LURED
2195 I, 23 | whereon to expend itself, overflow on an alien one? Clear up
2196 IV, 20 | which He approved. Nor can I overlook the fact that His garment,
2197 V, 5 | the very retribution which overtook both Jews and Greeks proves
2198 I, 7 | tide. The waves of truth overwhelm you on every side. You can
2199 IV, 29 | for this express reason owed to the Creator, because
2200 I, 26 | and forbidden. First, He owes the infliction of chastisement
2201 IV, 17 | debt which thy neighbour oweth thee; and of thy brother
2202 III, 5 | me, the dragons and the owls," He surely never meant
2203 II, 1 | rightly God; thus far keeping pace with the heretic of Pontus,
2204 I, 24 | hard upon you; and your painful flesh produces a crop of
2205 II, 20 | for the bricks they had so painfully made, and the cities and
2206 III, 23 | violated, and His own very palace and sublimest height had
2207 I, 28 | flesh which is beyond the pale of salvation! No farmer
2208 IV, 24 | to the like number of the palms of that place? Whatever
2209 V, 18 | share their knowledge." So palpable is the erasure in this passage,
2210 I, 21 | There must be no doubt or paltering. For all heresy is thrust
2211 II, 18 | sumptuous, and not likely to pamper the appetite of the luxurious.
2212 IV, 35 | person of Christ? If any pan of this healing was effected
2213 III, 16 | with the Jews also who are panakers of your heresy. When Oshea
2214 IV, 39 | shall see thee, and be m pangs. Thou shalt disperse the
2215 IV, 37 | since he consists of two pans, body and soul, the point
2216 I, 29 | by the authority of the Paraclete, it will be His prerogative
2217 IV, 29 | the Creator's severity is paraded before us, so often is Christ (
2218 IV, 31 | REJECTIONS OF THE INVITATION PARALLELED BY QUOTATIONS FROM THE OLD
2219 IV, 10 | FROM THE HEALING OF THE PARALYTIC, AND FROM THE DESIGNATION
2220 III, 13 | or in chariot, or from parapet, but from nurse's neck or
2221 IV, 10 | blood of Naboth, obtained pardon because of his repentance;
2222 V, 9 | the apostle) has made a parenthetical statement concerning Christ,
2223 V, 17 | in Judaism; and when he parenthetically observed of the sins (of
2224 IV, 40 | unworthy of God to desire to partake of what was not His own.
2225 II, 27 | human passions) being a partaker of that Godhead against
2226 V, 18 | crowning it. The likeness partakes with the reality in the
2227 III, 6 | portion of It, especially when partaking of the fulness Now, when
2228 II, 27 | against which you make the participation in human qualities a reproach?
2229 II, 25 | ever." Inserting thus the particle of present time, "And now,"
2230 IV, 24 | as a testimony, the very particles of their ground which might
2231 IV, 42 | among the soldiers, and partly distributed by lot, yet
2232 IV, 7 | it to others; surely He passes them by as "dogs." For to
2233 IV, 11 | gospel you have sewed on the patch of your new-fangled heresy.
2234 III, 15 | bottles," when he is himself patched and clad in an old suit
2235 I, 15 | well to it that no small patches be left here and there vacant,
2236 IV, 34 | speaketh of the straight path, hateth injustice and iniquity?"
2237 IV, 15 | mislead you, and disturb the paths of your feet." In another
2238 II, 27 | actually communed with patriarchs and prophets; was the Son
2239 IV, 1 | such means he might also patronize belief in "the Gospel according
2240 III, 13 | very properly; for he has paved the way for the incredible
2241 IV, 29 | release Out of it without the payment of "the very last mite,"
2242 IV, 39 | the heaven and earth will peaceabIy allow the completion of
2243 V, 14 | saith the Lord." "Live peaceably with all men." The retaliation
2244 I, 13 | moorfowl, I say nothing of the peacock, will, I presume, prove
2245 I, 7 | to contend about separate peculiarities.~
2246 IV, 14 | means of which He adapts the peculiarity of His doctrine to what
2247 IV, 4 | With regard, then, to the pending question, of Luke's Gospel (
2248 III, 20 | not shall invoke Thee, and peoples shall run together unto
2249 | per
2250 IV, 21 | he could not but have perceived that He was that Christ,
2251 I, 9 | I know full well by what perceptive faculty they boast of their
2252 I, 27 | a phantom of discipline, perfunctory in duty, careless in sin.
2253 IV, 23 | the Hebrews which were in peril from Pharaoh's command.
2254 IV, 12 | servants when exposed to the perils of war. Now, although He
2255 IV, 5 | maintaining both that order of periods, which rules that a late
2256 V, 11 | too, that "our outward man perishes," not meaning by an eternal
2257 I, 22 | penalties; and now all are perishing who yet never saw a single
2258 II, 26 | he really committed no perjury. But it was not a vain oath
2259 I, 26 | which he punishes not when perpetrated? It would have been far
2260 I, 26 | BUT DOES NOT PUNISH ITS PERPETRATION.~But it is here sufficient
2261 II, 5 | contention, which you are perpetually gnawing! If God is good,
2262 I, 20 | and christ, but rather to perpetuate the teaching of the law;
2263 V, 5 | THE CREATOR. MARCION ONLY PERPETUATES THE OFFENCE AND FOOLISHNESS
2264 I, 22 | the future any means of perpetuating itself. Now as a fact it
2265 IV, 1 | freed from the minute and perplexing burdens of the law. But
2266 IV, 39 | earth distress of nations in perplexity like the sea roaring by
2267 IV, 15 | condemn their vexatious and persecuting treatment of the (true)
2268 II, 19 | and sin not; that is, not persevere in anger, or be enraged: "
2269 IV, 9 | law) or not? For if he has persevered in his goodness, he will
2270 I, 13 | objects of worshsip with the Persian magi, the Egyptian hierophants,
2271 IV, 13 | these from the land of the Persians." Concerning whom He says
2272 IV, 9 | seemed to some extentto have persisted in his patience. But he
2273 IV, 43conc| of the disciples was so persistent, in order that to the last
2274 IV, 20 | alleged an excuse. He even persists in His assertion of ignorance: "
2275 II, 29 | found it an easier task to persuade us that one was a God of
2276 IV, 8 | He drave them out, not by persuasion like a good being, but by
2277 V, 15 | Christ AND THE PROPHETS PERTAINED TO THE SAME GOD. THE LAW
2278 IV, 38 | world marry." You see how pertinent it was to the case in point.
2279 V, 9 | JUDICIAL CHARACTER. JEWISH PERVERSIONS OF PROPHECY EXPOSED AND
2280 IV, 39 | nation against nation, and pestilence, and famines, and earthquakes,
2281 I, 24 | exposed, or to wars, and pestilences, and His other heavier strokes,
2282 I, 19 | purpose did rather, like a pestilential sirocco, exhale this health
2283 I, 4 | authority, if with their petty prerogatives of royalty,
2284 IV, 7 | his very confession only petulant, and evil in adulation just
2285 IV, 10 | body, against Marcion's phantoms. Since He is born of man,
2286 IV, 12 | LORD HE RECALLED IT FROM PHARISAIC NEGLECT TO THE ORIGINAL
2287 V, 21 | XXI. THE EPISTLE TO PHILEMON. THIS EPISTLE NOT MUTILATED.
2288 I, 13 | the lions of Mithras are philosophical sacraments of arid and scorched
2289 IV, 25 | mighty works, or who rashly philosophized about Him, and thereby furnished
2290 III, 11 | For indeed the notorious Philumena persuaded Apelles and the
2291 V, 7 | VII. ST. PAUL'S PHRASEOLOGY OFTEN SUGGESTED BY THE JEWISH
2292 III, 6 | therefore, our heretics in their phrenzy presumed to say that that
2293 III, 16 | name Christ, just as the pickpocket clutches the dole-basket,
2294 IV, 29 | is of all mankind? No one pilfers or plunders his own property,
2295 III, 13 | warfare before life, to pillage the wealth of a Damascus
2296 I, 18 | for us, we have found our pilot in Marcion, although not
2297 IV, 42 | said He was. Likewise, when Pirate asked Him, "Art thou Christ (
2298 II, 20 | prohibited this very kind of piscatory ailment, as soon as they
2299 IV, 10 | strain itself to such a pitch of infatuation as, on the
2300 II, 9 | is inferior to him. The pitcher will not be the potter,
2301 II, 26 | destroy me along with them." Pitiable are ye also, as well as
2302 I, 19 | from Tiberius to Antoninus Pius, there are about 115 years
2303 II, 22 | the cure of those who were plagued with the fiery serpents?
2304 IV, 43conc| of His body, what can be plainer? When they were doubting
2305 V, 18 | Church such constancy and plainness of speech in "making known
2306 V, 6 | him to be so forward in planning purposes, who is so backward
2307 II, 4 | it shall wither with its planter, and thus shall be manifested
2308 II, 20 | scourge? It was not by a few plates and cup in all cases the
2309 I, 13 | Zeno the air and ether, and Plato the stars, which he calls
2310 IV, 27 | outside of the cup and the platter, whereas their inward part
2311 I, 1pref | which has given to scenic plays their stories of the sacrifices
2312 IV, 39 | mouth" to Moses, when he pleaded in excuse the slowness of
2313 II, 19 | Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell
2314 I, 14 | handiwork of our God will be pleasing to you, inasmuch as your
2315 V, 12 | earnest of His Spirit" (pledged as it were thereby to have "
2316 II, 18 | of food as were neither plentiful nor sumptuous, and not likely
2317 IV, 24 | the one case, and their plenty in the other. He cut down
2318 II, 10 | propagated his sin, and thereby plied "the abundance of his merchandise,"
2319 I, 13 | mowed as to its crops, ploughed up with lusty arms, and
2320 II, 10 | paradise, with a right to pluck of the tree of life.~
2321 IV, 29 | mankind? No one pilfers or plunders his own property, but he
2322 IV, 20 | of the Creator not to be plunged into the Creator's abyss.
2323 I, 28 | sacrament of salvation wholly plunges that flesh which is beyond
2324 I, 3 | Gods may be admitted, by poetic licence (if they must be),
2325 V, 10 | to be punished, but the poisoner to escape? Not that we indeed
2326 I, 14 | your couch and house, the poisonous ejections of the blister-beetle,
2327 III, 18 | the golden serpent on the pole; and as it hung there, propose
2328 III, 24 | while declaring that our politeuma, or citizenship, is in heaven,
2329 I, 29 | are made against it is a polluted thing, to the disparagement
2330 I, 7 | Alexanders, Caesars, and Pompeys! This fact, however, does
2331 IV, 15 | hosts shall confound the pompous together with their strength:
2332 IV, 15 | from their riches, in the pomps and vanities of the world
2333 V, 9 | Priest of God. He is the Pontiff of the priesthood of the
2334 IV, 39 | which are better known in popular crowds and unarmed tumults.
2335 I, 29 | is afraid of a redundant population, lest he should be weary
2336 V, 19 | feared. Moreover, from the porch of the Stoics he brings
2337 I, 25 | else (for Marcion, while poring over this opinion of the
2338 IV, 39 | the end of all things: "portents in the sun, and the moon,
2339 I, 25 | SHOWS INCONSISTENCY IN THE PORTRAITURE OF HIS SIMPLY GOOD AND EMOTIONLESS
2340 III, 7 | mystery of His name, is portrayed in a twofold dress with
2341 V, 19 | apostle could not have so positively laid it down, that "He is
2342 III, 3 | alone, who could have been posterior to none. And now, when I
2343 II, 15 | order that, having their posterity in view, they might obey
2344 III, 17 | I shall so arrange as to postpone, to the chapter wherein
2345 V, 21 | look with suspicion on any postponement there, where we merely set
2346 III, 4 | reason impelled him to do so, postponing thereby his own revelation
2347 III, 18 | Amalek, pray in a sitting posture with outstretched hands,
2348 IV, 8 | tangi, nisi corpus, nulla potest res," is even a sentence
2349 IV, 37 | SERVANTS ENTRUSTED WITH TEN POUNDS. CHRIST A JUDGE, WHO IS
2350 I, 14 | the third heaven to these poverty-stricken elements, and for the same
2351 III, 4 | against His Christ, and powerless in respect of them both!
2352 II, 11 | of goodness, but as the practical observance of it, because
2353 V, 18 | usually the matter on which he practises his effacing process. The
2354 IV, 3 | himself to the same plan of practising somewhat different from
2355 II, 16 | Censure, if you please, the practitioner who cuts badly, amputates
2356 I, 3 | must now add, of heretical pravity. But the Christian verity
2357 II, 16 | account of the impenitent, and pre-eminent resources on account of
2358 III, 8 | very reason, to be sure, as pre-eminently good, and most remote from
2359 V, 19 | INVISIBLE GOD EXPLAINED. PRE-EXISTENCE OF OUR CHRIST IN THE CREATOR'
2360 III, 9 | CASES OF THE ANGELS, AND THE PRE-INCARNATE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE SON
2361 V, 6 | of time announced by the pre-ministration of figures, and symbols,
2362 V, 6 | the time should come, but "pre-ordained in the counsels of God before
2363 IV, 33 | both the forerunner and the pre-pater of the ways of that Lord
2364 IV, 15 | He had made clemency the preamble of His benediction so He
2365 IV, 22 | heaven; or else it was only a precarious cloud, as it were, of the
2366 IV, 7 | VII. MARCION REJECTED THE PRECEDINGPORTION OF ST. LUKE'S GOSPEL. THEREFORE
2367 III, 8 | others to maintain it in his precocious and somewhat abortive Marcionites,
2368 II, 10 | this kind. Nevertheless, by precondemning him, God testified that
2369 IV, 18 | by affirming that His own precursor was already come in the
2370 IV, 2 | desired the authority of his predecessors for both his own faith and
2371 IV, 11 | This much the comparison predetermines, that a physician is more
2372 V, 9 | But "to rise again" is predicable only of that which has fallen
2373 III, 24 | citizenship, is in heaven, he predicates of it that it is really
2374 V, 8 | who is the Christ of the predicters. Now compare the Spirit'
2375 V, 19 | the Creator, who, while predicting that "old things were to
2376 IV, 31 | then beforehand he also predicts the election of the Gentiles
2377 IV, 40 | to suffer, since the law prefigures His passion. Accordingly,
2378 III, 13 | a daily occurrence, the pregnancy and child-bearing of a young
2379 III, 11 | Forsilly women fancy themselves pregnant sometimes, when they are
2380 I, 29 | unchaste thing, he is really prejudicing the cause of that very sanctity
2381 IV, 27 | of Christ's requiring so premature nay, as yet so distasteful
2382 II, 23 | the Marcionites? Must He prematurely condemn men, who are thus
2383 IV, 39 | wonder that He forbade "premeditation," who actually Himself received
2384 IV, 14 | see whether they are not premonitors of Christ. Meanwhile the
2385 V, 4 | sabbaths, I suppose, and "the preparations," and the fasts, and the "
2386 IV, 11 | the wilderness," and the preparer of the ways of the Lord
2387 V, 18 | The heretic erased the preposition in, and made the clause
2388 I, 4 | authority, if with their petty prerogatives of royalty, so to say, they
2389 V, 4 | allegorized" (that is to say, they presaged something besides the literal
2390 III, 13 | on the new-born Christ, presenting to Him, (although) in His
2391 IV, 11 | himself both a creator and preserver, and a specially good physician,
2392 IV, 12 | Now the work of healing or preserving is not proper to man, but
2393 I, 4 | government, where they one by one preside in a union of authority,
2394 V, 6 | greatest in the world, and then presided over by him. Thus the arguments
2395 III, 7 | belong to Christ, so these presignified the same number of advents;
2396 IV, 29 | sown the precept, was now pressing to an abundant harvest from
2397 IV, 25 | whom no preceding smaller presumptions have secured a claim to
2398 IV, 41 | destined the apostle, after his presumptuous protestations of zeal, to
2399 I, 27 | the Marcionites with such pretences, that they have no fear
2400 I, 6 | UNTRUE TO HIS THEORY. HE PRETENDS THAT HIS GODS ARE EQUAL,
2401 V, 20 | announced, whether in their "pretentious" or their "truthful" faith.
2402 IV, 39 | in a martyr's cause, who "prevails with God" which is what "
2403 I, 10 | the world with its extreme prevalence, men still spoke of Him
2404 I, 22 | wheedling about his grace, prevaricating in his goodness, which he
2405 V, 11 | they have already (in the prevenient dispensation of the Old
2406 II, 28 | in your ideas,) when he prevents an act of retaliation. For
2407 III, 14 | and convictions of heart, pricking and piercing each conscience. "
2408 V, 9 | He is the Pontiff of the priesthood of the uncircumcision, constituted
2409 II, 17 | neighbour as thyself. To these prime counsels of innocence, chastity,
2410 II, 10 | CREATURE OF GOD. NAY, THE PRIMEVAL CHERUB ONLY WAS GOD'S WORK.
2411 V, 6 | secular ones, those of the princely people, (chief in the divine
2412 V, 4 | being raised) above all principality, and power, and dominion,
2413 III, 20 | from sin, "and from the prison-house," that is, of death, "those
2414 III, 20 | error, "to bring out the prisoners from the prison," that is,
2415 I, 23 | such, what sort of being prithee would the irrational make
2416 V, 18 | with the reality in the privileged honour. I shall now endeavour,
2417 V, 17 | far off before? From the privileges) whereof he speaks above,
2418 V, 3 | brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which
2419 IV, 29 | that he has made no such pro vision for him? For if he
2420 III, 2 | upon the foundations of pro-arrangement and fore-announcement. Faith,
2421 IV, 35 | believer knows that there is a pro-founder reason. Consider, therefore,
2422 V, 15 | Christ?" Now he has here pro-pounded the soul and the body as
2423 III, 6 | simply show that there was a probability of Christ's rejection. This
2424 IV, 28 | rejected the defender of probity and piety! In short, he
2425 IV, 11 | similitude); "I will utter dark problems" (that is, I will set forth
2426 III, 3 | EVIDENCE OF CHRIST'S MISSION.~A procedure of this kind, you say, was
2427 III, 4 | first coming took hostile proceed-rags against the Creator, destroying
2428 I, 22 | who helped on the ruthless proceedings of the former by the retardation
2429 II, 21 | EXPLAINED. THE EIGHT DAYS' PROCESSION AROUND JERICHO. THE GATHERING
2430 V, 15 | their killing Christ the proclaimer of the new god, after they
2431 I, 2 | those who have an heretical proclivity), while morbidly brooding
2432 IV, 23 | blessed matrimony for the procreation of mankind, and in such
2433 IV, 7 | Romulus should have had in Proculus an avoucher of his ascent
2434 IV, 38 | consistency in them. They procured then a copy of the Scripture,
2435 IV, 28 | that very God for whom He procures this fear, this absence
2436 III, 13 | had been some novel and prodigious thing. Then, again, Jewish
2437 IV, 12 | solemn day, He was only professedly following the Creator, as
2438 II, 16 | of any value without his professional tools? Censure, if you please,
2439 I, 13 | of sordidness, those very professors of wisdom, from whose genius
2440 IV, 12 | Marcion, how that it was proffer employment for the Creator'
2441 II, 13 | help and to hurt. Merely to profit is a comparatively small
2442 V, 5 | is so very good, and so profuse in mercy, some carry off
2443 I, 14 | purposely endued with a profusion. of instincts and resources,
2444 IV, 11 | reformation, by amplification, by progress; just as the fruit is separated
2445 II, 22 | also the reasons, as being prohibitory of all material exhibition
2446 III, 16 | unexpected, his twofold project is defeated. For if he be
2447 I, 29 | repudiation of ambitious projects does poverty afford? What
2448 II, 25 | time, and at present, a prolongation of man's life. Therefore
2449 I, 1pref | Caucasus. Nay more, the true Prometheus, Almighty God, is mangled
2450 V, 11 | treasured. For he gives prominence to the statement, "That
2451 IV, 15 | simply bringing them into prominent view, not by making any
2452 IV, 38 | of Christ, when he more prominently affirmed that He was his
2453 I, 20 | in their conduct even the promiscuousness of their conversation but
2454 III, 24 | whom you declare to be a promiser of heavenly things. As it
2455 V, 17 | of one who so completely promotes it. "For to create in Himself
2456 II, 22 | was offered, as that which prompted the offering. Suppose now,
2457 II, 19 | severity that its Author promulgated this law, but in the interest
2458 I, 26 | whatever sentence or law He promulges, for the vindication of
2459 II, 18 | religion a people who were prone to idolatry and transgression
2460 III, 4 | that he might in person propagate a most monstrous faith,
2461 V, 8 | and their daughters shall prophesy; and upon my servants and
2462 V, 8 | even they have the right of prophesying, he has already shown when
2463 IV, 21 | that He was one of the old prophetss. Now, whosoever of all these
2464 I, 23 | through him becomes evil; so propitious, too, as to incense against
2465 IV, 20 | it proceeded from and was proportionate to her faith in the Creator.
2466 III, 16 | of the Creator, they are proportionately unsuitable to the non-Creator'
2467 IV, 17 | announces a retribution proportioned to the merits. But from
2468 IV, 34 | by any suddenly devised proposal of divorce; because it was
2469 V, 1intro| records. No one is at once a proposer and a seconder to himself.
2470 I, 19 | Antitheses, or contradictory propositions, which aim at committing
2471 II, 27 | demolishing the Creator, I will propound them in a simple and definite
2472 I, 29 | must no doubt involve the proscription of marriage. Let us see,
2473 I, 1pref | without a blush do they prostitute their weapons of war. The
2474 II, 27 | from His higher condition, prostrated the supreme dignity of His
2475 III, 18 | the ground, and in such prostration to have offered prayer?
2476 IV, 34 | for-bidding it. You find Him also protecting marriage, in whatever direction
2477 II, 17 | myself in worthier words) protective of His Catholic and supreme
2478 V, 3 | MISAPPLICATION. THE STRONG PROTESTS OF THIS EPISTLE AGAINST
2479 IV, 8 | rejected by reason of a simple proverb. Here at once, when I observe
2480 II, 23 | with a most unwavering and provident decision.~
2481 V, 7 | this, the Holy Ghost has providentially explained the meaning of
2482 IV, 15 | out the blessing and in providing against the curse. He had
2483 IV, 16 | commission of the first (or provocative) wrong. For He knows how
2484 V, 17 | god has brought us to this proximity to the Creator from afar.
2485 V, 18 | heretic is so fond of his pruning-knife, I do not wonder when syllables
2486 III, 16 | has come, until you have prvoed him to be a far different
2487 IV, 23 | are acting for another, prythee tell us what you have ever
2488 V, 18 | drank wine with drums and psalteries" were blamed by God. Now,
2489 IV, 11 | meant that the heathens and publicans should be understood, whom
2490 IV, 13 | tidings of peace, as one that publisheth good tidings of good." So
2491 IV, 2 | Lord Himself this office of publishing the gospel. Since, however,
2492 III, 11 | contemptible issues of the puerperal labour itself! But yet,
2493 V, 19 | at the same time) "vainly puffed up in the fleshly mind,
2494 V, 11 | the passage ought to be punctuated with a comma after God,
2495 V, 15 | brief works there is much pungency? The Jews had slain their
2496 V, 15 | THESSALONIANS. THE SHORTER EPISTLES PUNGENT IN SENSE AND VERY VALUABLE.
2497 I, 26 | commission of that which he punishes not when perpetrated? It
2498 I, 27 | and lets it go free by not punishing it. What a prevaricator
2499 I, 23 | son from his father, the pupil from his tutor, the servant
2500 IV, 33 | Creator. He continued his pupillage up to the time of John,