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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,