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2501 I, 29 | widowhood, or celibacy, or has purchased by divorce a title to baptism,
2502 V, 7 | sentence of the Creator. "Purge out the old leaven, that
2503 II, 9 | course of God's action is purged from all imputation to evil.
2504 IV, 27 | understood before God the purification of men, inasmuch as it was
2505 IV, 9 | a sinner, but afterwards purified from the stains thereof
2506 II, 22 | only without faith and purity of heart, and without any
2507 II, 6 | of Marcion's god, who is purposelessly good, as we have shown.
2508 IV, 38 | wished men to believe John, purposing to censure them because
2509 III, 21 | they shall change into pursuits of moderation and peace
2510 I, 18 | malignants, or Saturn in quadrature, or Mars at the trine. The
2511 IV, 26 | He sent them abundance of quails not a serpent for a fish,
2512 IV, 17 | even robbers have their qualms now and then. There is no
2513 IV, 28 | interferes with brothers who were quarrelling, and chides the offender: "
2514 I, 9 | long as it remains thus questionable; and all the while it is
2515 V, 14 | from the dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies." In
2516 V, 14 | own mortal bodies will be quickened in precisely the same way
2517 V, 19 | opinions. Then, if God "quickens us together with Christ,
2518 III, 6 | Christ's rejection. This is quickly done, since the passages
2519 I, 1pref | lust, they hang up their quivers on their car-yokes, to warn
2520 V, 14 | apostle's own) subsequent quotation of the self-same passage,
2521 IV, 42 | would have been even more radiant, and the day would have
2522 I, 21 | from us. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine
2523 II, 17 | one and the same Deity, "raining on the just and on the unjust,
2524 V, 10 | consequently the question which he raises is not concerning the sort
2525 II, 15 | and the offence equally ran down through the whole race,
2526 III, 23 | He can have permitted to range through His own heaven one
2527 V, 7 | hardly be thought to have ranked the Creator amongst those
2528 I, 4 | subjection of all other ranks to Him) the very summit,
2529 IV, 22 | incident. For when a man is rapt in the Spirit, especially
2530 II, 21 | nor yet a human one; but a rare and a sacred work, and,
2531 II, 9 | spirit. Now a breeze is rarer than the wind; and although
2532 V, 9 | PSALMS VINDICATED. JEWISH AND RATIONALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS ON THIS
2533 I, 23 | will not be consistent in rationality if it be impaired in any
2534 I, 23 | good than that which is rationally good; much less can goodness
2535 III, 13 | armed with the satchel, and rationed on bread and butter! Now,
2536 III, 13 | trumpet, but with a little rattle; might he about to seek
2537 IV, 27 | inward part was full of ravening and wickedness." This He
2538 IV, 24 | shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon;
2539 V, 1intro| exclaimed, "Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf; in the morning
2540 V, 9 | re-risen. For the syllable RE always implies iteration (
2541 II, 20 | spite of the Marcionites, re-assert their demand for even greater
2542 V, 9 | that it is said to have re-risen. For the syllable RE always
2543 IV, 26 | of which my privilege has reached me. In fine, if to receive,
2544 III, 24 | set upon the earth, and reaching to heaven, with angels ascending
2545 III, 8 | Christ's resurreetion be not realized, neither shall that be for
2546 III, 24 | soar up to the celestial realms by these ascensions, says, "
2547 I, 29 | deserved blame; nor is the corn reaped, as if it were to be condemned,
2548 I, 29 | a plenteous crop by its reaping. For this leads me to remark
2549 IV, 37 | what he laid not down, and reaps what he did not sow," my
2550 IV, 20 | Nahum is also verified: He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry,"
2551 IV, 23 | who would not thus have rebutted the unfairness of the rebuke,
2552 I, 22 | give ourselves scope for rebutting all his other attacks? Let
2553 IV, 26 | Christ also showed, when, recalling to notice (and not obliterating)
2554 IV, 33 | in the sight of God," He recalls Isaiah: "For the day of
2555 V, 17 | fulness of times He might recapitulate" (if I may so say, according
2556 V, 17 | believe that an alien god has recapitulated them in an alien Christ,
2557 IV, 34 | is meant some temporary receptacle of faithful souls, wherein
2558 IV, 11 | to do demonstrate that, reciprocally, John is suitable to Christ,
2559 IV, 16 | on pain of retaliation or reciprocity; so that every man, in view
2560 II, 9 | purpose and reason, but recklessly employed by man according
2561 IV, 12 | calling them your Sabbaths, reckoning them as men's Sabbaths,
2562 V, 20 | honours of the Pharisee he now reckons to be only "loss" to himself; (
2563 IV, 22 | therefore does Peter, when recognizing the companions of his Christ
2564 III, 23 | that their Christ has come, recollect also what is that end which
2565 IV, 36 | CHRIST CONFUTED.~When He recommends perseverance and earnestness
2566 IV, 17 | Creator, as the Judge and the Recompenser of merits, then He compels
2567 V, 7 | nuptial bond to be resumed by reconciliation. But what reasons does (
2568 I, 13 | borne by their idols, has recourse to the interpretation of
2569 I, 13 | life again, and with joy recovered, is an emblem of the regularity
2570 V, 16 | obliged from time to time to recur to certain topics in order
2571 V, 5 | matter, it being of constant recurrence, and in the same form too,
2572 V, 7 | what is a very frequently recurring sentence of the Creator. "
2573 V, 5 | the discoloration of the reddening skin? What so mean as the
2574 IV, 1 | so there may be all the redder shame for the blindness
2575 IV, 43conc| the Creator's Christ, the Redeemer of lsrael. But as touching
2576 IV, 40 | accomplish the symbol of His own redeeming blood? He might also have
2577 IV, 39 | raise your heads; for your redemption hath come near," that is,
2578 I, 27 | God forbid, you say with redoubted emphasis. So you do fear
2579 II, 14 | take a word whose one form reduces to confusion and ambiguity
2580 I, 13 | own disgrace, figuratively reducing Jupiter to a heated substance,
2581 IV, 17 | any increase" meaning the redundance of interest, which is usury.
2582 I, 13 | WORTHINESS ILLUSTRATED BY REFERENCES TO THE HEATHEN PHILOSOPHERS,
2583 II, 9 | fault of the portion is referrible to the original whole. Now,
2584 IV, 15 | fleeting; who drink their refined wines, and anoint themselves
2585 II, 9 | interpreters of the Greek, without reflecting on the difference of the
2586 IV, 11 | there is a separation, by reformation, by amplification, by progress;
2587 II, 29 | readily shown to have been reformed by Christ, rather than destroyed;
2588 IV, 22 | the other afterwards the reformer thereof; one the initiator
2589 I, 26 | damage, or injury, as one who refrains from exercising judicial
2590 IV, 16 | be protected, assisted, refreshed; thus by Isaiah He says: "
2591 III, 24 | their resurrection, and refreshing them with the abundance
2592 II, 17 | from such rudiments to the refreshment of men.~
2593 V, 9 | therefore, the apostle refutes those who deny the resurrection
2594 IV, 27 | CREATOR.~I prefer elsewhere refuting the faults which the Marcionites
2595 V, 3 | so retaining the ancient regime as not to exclude the Creator'
2596 V, 1intro| appends his seal, another registers in the public records. No
2597 V, 13 | up must be put aside. I regret still to have to contend
2598 IV, 4 | Christ, who was all along regretting that he had been in so great
2599 III, 24 | besides, the subject has been regularly treated in another work,
2600 IV, 19 | could He deny them these reIationships who really had them? Surely
2601 III, 19 | David, how that "the Lord reigneth from the tree," I want to
2602 III, 14 | which received Him, and reigning, from the fact that He conquered
2603 IV, 31 | OF MERCY AND GRACE. THE REJECTIONS OF THE INVITATION PARALLELED
2604 V, 14 | Again, your apostle says:) "Rejoicing in hope;" that is, of God.
2605 II, 20 | obscure and tarnish the rekindled light of the Creator's bounty.
2606 V, 11 | the predictions of Moses relating to Christ, in whom it was
2607 I, 22 | fully overthrown unless we relax our defence by mere prescription,
2608 V, 6 | Scripture which the apostle also relies on? What has your god to
2609 II, 25 | restoration, and they had been relieved by confession. Cain, however,
2610 IV, 33 | removed from his office, relieves his lord's debtors by lessening
2611 II, 24 | you will have first to relinquish that position of yours,
2612 IV, 22 | he shows they ought to be relinquished: he associates them with
2613 V, 19 | cannot possibly have any relish for such perverse opinions.
2614 V, 5 | seek after wisdom,'' who rely upon their own wisdom, and
2615 IV, 7 | I want also to know the remainder of his course down, assuming
2616 I, 29 | seed; His to declare, "It remaineth that they who have wives
2617 IV | COMMENTARY ON ST. LUKE. IT GIVES REMARKABLE PROOF OF TERTULLIAN'S GRASP
2618 II, 7 | GOD. PROVISION MADE FOR IT REMEDIALLY AND CONSISTENTLY WITH HIS
2619 IV, 35 | none other than He whom He reminds us of in every passage.~
2620 I, 28 | make it evident that he remits sins, when he affords no
2621 IV, 10 | the transgressions of the remnant of Thine heritage. He retaineth
2622 IV, 23 | immediately have to submit to this remonstrance from me: "Whoever you are,
2623 IV, 6 | revived His mighty power, remoulded His determinations expressed
2624 I, 28 | glorify the unworthy? Why not remunerate with salvation what it burdens
2625 IV, 29 | me to obey, but Him who remunerates? Your Christ proclaims, "
2626 I, 1pref | first instead of the third renders a preface necessary to this
2627 III, 6 | too that is, a Jew (only a renegade and a destroyer of Judaism)
2628 IV, 2 | apostolic men, Luke and Mark renew it afterwards. These all
2629 IV, 12 | first, lest we should be renewing them at every turn to meet
2630 V, 2 | that they must of course renounce all submission to the Creator
2631 IV, 1 | same prophet foretells the renovation more manifestly and clearly
2632 I, 22 | be more costly and more renowned? Such must be the sentence
2633 I, 20 | proclaiming them to be worthy of renunciation, the very agreement of the
2634 V, 1intro| and then in remorse and reparation, on his receiving from him
2635 IV, 17 | certainly, who is incapable of repayment, because, as a matter of
2636 I, 21 | GOD, WHEN HE ANNOUNCED THE REPEAL OF SOME OE GOD'S ANCIENT
2637 IV, 30 | How often, indeed, has He repelled, and in the repulse condemned?
2638 IV, 39 | arms in hand, and while repelling force with force, but only
2639 II, 8 | LURED HIM TO HIS FALL, WHEN REPENTANT AND RESUMING OBEDIENCE TO
2640 II, 24 | and of great kindness, and repentest Thee of the evil." It is
2641 II, 24 | because He actually said, "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul
2642 II, 24 | means. For although man repents most frequently on the recollection
2643 V, 13 | so often proved that its replacement (by the gospel) affords
2644 IV, 24 | supplies when they could be replenished through the cities, just
2645 V, 15 | prophesyings, Marcion of course replies. For he has already quenched
2646 III, 24 | this life's course is over, repose in Hades in Abraham's bosom.
2647 III, 2 | man by God, and by man be reposed in God; it being a duty,
2648 I, 21 | apostolic origin but such as reposes its Christian faith in the
2649 IV, 27 | XXVII. CHRIST'S REPREHENSION OF THE PHARISEES SEEKING
2650 IV, 13 | holy mountain." You have a representation of the name; you have the
2651 III, 10 | cloud and column, and in representations of Himself used bodies composed
2652 IV, 16 | much more easy it is to repress violence by the prospect
2653 V, 14 | for an injury; it rather repressed any attempt thereat by the
2654 IV, 15 | poor? There is nobody but reprobates the opposite of that which
2655 IV, 15 | how happens it that the reprobation of the rich does not proceed
2656 II, 1 | ARGUMENT.~THE Occasion of reproducing this little work, the fortunes
2657 I, 13 | nourishment, the ripening, and the reproduction of all things, the majority
2658 IV, 23 | goest,' then, by judicially reproving an act of either pride or
2659 IV, 34 | should agree together to repudiate the fruit of their marriage,
2660 V, 20 | stupid obduracy, which he repudiates. These are also the things "
2661 I, 14 | a Marcionite, that is, a repudiator of your Maker (for if the
2662 IV, 30 | He repelled, and in the repulse condemned? In the present
2663 II, 5 | had God been such as He is reputed good, and prescient, and
2664 II, 18 | them away therefrom, while requesting it to be performed to Himself,
2665 II, 15 | sentence of the Judge, when requiting on sons the sins of their
2666 IV, 8 | nisi corpus, nulla potest res," is even a sentence worthy
2667 II, 7 | interposed, He would have rescinded the liberty of man's will,
2668 I, 2 | very irregularity of his researches; and when he found the Creator
2669 II, 10 | angels in a shape which resembled the figure of animals). "
2670 II, 15 | the whole race, with the reservation, indeed, of that subsequent
2671 IV, 8 | judicial being, in whom reside the grounds of fear anger,
2672 III, 7 | s own grace, whilst the residue go away from salvation without
2673 III, 16 | diversity as we have to resist it, inasmuch as you will
2674 II, 5 | either for obedience or resistance.~
2675 IV, 19 | examine His meaning when He resorts to non-literal words, saying "
2676 IV, 28 | that He orders Him to be respected whom He forbids to be offended;
2677 II, 22 | before God, in the sense of respectful homage to God, who did not
2678 IV, 11 | John, and their followers respectively, no exact comparison would
2679 IV, 29 | minds kindled by faith, and resplendent with the works of truth.
2680 III, 22 | war nor evil tidings. In response to which is the psalm, "
2681 IV, 41 | HIS OWN MISSION. THE MORAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THESE MEN ASSERTED.~"
2682 I, 22 | of a thing, is accounted responsible for it if it should occur.
2683 V, 6 | honourable; and he that resteth thereon shall not be confounded."
2684 IV, 34 | in hell, and the poor man resting in Abraham's bosom. For
2685 II, 10 | reason as He postponed the restitution of man. For He afforded
2686 II, 20 | Egyptians justly renounced their restitution-claim then and there; while the
2687 III, 24 | most excellent God, when He restores in amnesty what He took
2688 IV, 16 | he who had no faith (to restrain him) might fear the laws
2689 IV, 16 | revelation had manifestly restricted, both by prohibiting the
2690 IV, 12 | thine," by the word thine it restricts the prohibition to human
2691 IV, 12 | argument of our adversary which rests on some novel institution
2692 I, 5 | ABSURDITY AND INJURY TO PIETY RESULTING FROM MARCION'S DUALITY.~
2693 V, 7 | wishing the nuptial bond to be resumed by reconciliation. But what
2694 II, 8 | FALL, WHEN REPENTANT AND RESUMING OBEDIENCE TO GOD.~For it
2695 III, 8 | is destroyed. If Christ's resurreetion be not realized, neither
2696 IV, 10 | remnant of Thine heritage. He retaineth not His anger as a testimony
2697 IV, 16 | repetition of the injury by retaliating it, which it virtually prohibited
2698 IV, 16 | to inflict a second (or retaliatory) injury, might abstain from
2699 I, 22 | proceedings of the former by the retardation of his own goodness. For
2700 IV, 28 | both the remission and the retention of sin savour of a judicial
2701 IV, 39 | outside Jerusalem whither to retire "in the day-time He was
2702 IV, 22 | permitting him to appear on the retired mountain in the company
2703 IV, 12 | inadmissible; nor could it be retorted, that from the very novelty
2704 IV, 5 | writings (for they are daily retouching their work, as daily they
2705 IV, 34 | torment and the comfort are retributions of the Creator reserved
2706 IV, 23 | of the Creator. For this (retrospection) He had been against their
2707 V, 7 | against fornication, he reveals the resurrection of the
2708 IV, 22 | whom He had appeared in revelations? to let Him be speaking
2709 IV, 16 | such patience. There is revenge which he ought to have permitted
2710 IV, 16 | all reprisals, but even a revengeful thought or recollection
2711 V, 13 | and good." Now if he thus reverences the Creator's law, I am
2712 III, 11 | against the most sacred and reverend works of nature; inveigh
2713 II, 16 | which ought to have been reverent, had to be avenged. Accordingly,
2714 II, 1 | rather than judged; served reverentially rather than handled critically,
2715 IV, 43conc| after two days will He revive us: in the third day He
2716 IV, 6 | reality to His promises, revived His mighty power, remoulded
2717 IV, 43conc| believe that these words often revolved in the thought of those
2718 V, 12 | were not punished or else rewarded in that very condition,
2719 III, 6 | craft-wisdom not from the Rhodian law, but from the Pontic,
2720 I, 5 | substance of Deity, the richer you make it in number the
2721 IV, 14 | poor; deliver the poor, and rid the needy out of the hand
2722 IV, 12 | the truth of my Lord to ridicule his arts), both in the scriptural
2723 V, 17 | desirous of giving it the new rifle (of Laodicean), as if he
2724 IV, 29 | commanding them to judge righteously, who was destroying God
2725 V, 20 | the word truth, not to the rightness of the rule itself, because
2726 I, 29 | were evil; but as being ripe for its discharge, and in
2727 I, 13 | production, the nourishment, the ripening, and the reproduction of
2728 IV, 14 | it were of Christ to be a rivulet streaming from the springs
2729 IV, 39 | perplexity like the sea roaring by reason of their expectation
2730 IV, 17 | adulterating labour. But even robbers have their qualms now and
2731 II, 28 | fraudulent still, because he robs man of his Lord and Creator.
2732 II, 29 | in their beginning of a robuster growth; and this in the
2733 III, 5 | or its decoction from the rocks; and also hear of "a land
2734 IV, 39 | consecrated stones," were rolled up and down exposed to the
2735 I, 9 | but that, too, is only Roman superstition. Furthermore,
2736 IV, 5 | simply such of them as were rounded by apostles, but in all
2737 II, 16 | angry, and jealous, and roused, and grieved, He must therefore
2738 IV, 19 | the meaning of Him who was rousing the people to hear by the
2739 I, 1pref | than any Scythian, more roving than the waggon-life of
2740 IV, 12 | had plucked some ears and rubbed them in their hands; by
2741 V, 3 | consideration. For their rudimentary belief, which was still
2742 III, 6 | servant? or deaf, but he who ruleth over them?" Also when He
2743 IV, 38 | Knowing that men would rush down headlong over it, He
2744 II, 13 | to use your phrase) it ruthlessly pursues, it, in fact, benefits
2745 III, 13 | The kings of Arabia and Saba shall offer to Him gifts."
2746 IV, 23 | Leviticus, which concerns the sacerdotal office, and forbids the
2747 IV, 12 | the law excepts from the sacredness of the Sabbath and while
2748 V, 7 | even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us." But why is Christ
2749 IV, 37 | body which is not lost is safe. If, (to take the only other
2750 IV, 12 | furnished to this day divine safeguards, a course which His adversary
2751 I, 5 | words, I should think it the safer course to worship neither
2752 IV, 21 | ablution, nor the meditation of salt and honey; nor did he initiate
2753 IV, 27 | and the honour of public salutations, He only follows out the
2754 V, 13 | is the power of god unto salvtion to every one that beheveth;
2755 III, 5 | that you would ever gather Samian cakes from the ground; nor
2756 IV, 25 | thing of them all, as a sample, that I may believe; lest
2757 V, 15 | the prophets. What that "sanctification of ours" is, which he declares
2758 I, 28 | sanctifies what is already sanctified? Why burden the infirm,
2759 I, 28 | uselessness of a discipline which sanctifies what is already sanctified?
2760 IV, 34 | the Pharisees), He both sanctioned the provision of Moses,
2761 IV, 13 | Jordan, and placed in the sanctuary of His covenant. What equally
2762 III, 24 | promise of being like the sand of the sea for multitude,
2763 IV, 24 | which might cleave to the sandal, not to mention any other
2764 IV, 29 | fire. Of Him the psalmist sang, "A fire shall go out before
2765 II, 4 | branch on a bad stock. The sapling, however, of his blasphemy
2766 II, 10 | onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle;
2767 IV, 13 | the names of Abram, and Sarai, and Oshea, by calling the
2768 II, 10 | stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond,
2769 IV, 21 | final meal of the widow of Sarepta was multiplied by the blessing
2770 I, 1pref | than the waggon-life of the Sarmatian, more inhuman than the Massagete,
2771 III, 13 | afterwards armed with the satchel, and rationed on bread and
2772 IV, 31 | heavenly banquet of spiritual satiety and pleasure, must remember
2773 I, 18 | difficulty succeeded in satisfying men's faith. In what manner,
2774 IV, 19 | taken in Judaea by Sentius Saturni-nus, which might have satisfied
2775 II, 20 | THAT MATTER.~But these "saucy cuttles" (of heretics) under
2776 I, 1pref | blasphemies. Marcion is more savage than even the beasts of
2777 II, 24 | meant that His repentance savoured of an acknowledgment of
2778 I, 12 | SUCH EVIDENCE FOR HIS GOD SAVOURS OF IMPUDENCE AND MALIGNITY.~
2779 V, 5 | bloody sacrifices and of savoury holocausts? What is weaker
2780 IV, 42 | the Jewish council) "Thou sayest that I am" in order that
2781 IV, 24 | them when exposed to the scantiness of the desert. Even shoes
2782 II, 13 | tremendous threats, and yet scarcely turn away from evil. What,
2783 IV, 20 | fulfilled, where he says, "Scattering the waters in His passage."
2784 I, 1pref | ferocity which has given to scenic plays their stories of the
2785 III, 19 | diadem, or in his hand as a sceptre, or else as a mark in some
2786 I, 8 | ashamed of the old one! So schoolboys are proud of their new shoes,
2787 V, 19 | truth which none of the schools of philosophy agreed together
2788 I, 13 | philosophical sacraments of arid and scorched nature. It is, indeed, enough
2789 II, 8 | knew to be guiltless on the score of his helplessness: in
2790 IV, 31 | for him now to condemn as scorners of his invitation those
2791 II, 20 | fierce application of the scourge? It was not by a few plates
2792 I, 5 | than one of them with some scruple of conscience, or both of
2793 II, 18 | also, and the troublesome scrupulousness of their ceremonies and
2794 IV, 35 | Creator to be summoned to the scrutiny of the law in the person
2795 I, 29 | not require the hook and scythe of sanctity, as if it were
2796 I, 1pref | born there, fouler than any Scythian, more roving than the waggon-life
2797 IV, 7 | others who (inhabit) the sea-coast, and that of Jordan, Galilee
2798 II, 10 | saith the Lord God: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom,
2799 I, 28 | the Spirit. He therefore seals man, who had never been
2800 V, 12 | down the mighty from their seats." Is he then the same God
2801 III, 11 | persuaded Apelles and the other seceders from Marcion rather to believe
2802 V, 1intro| at once a proposer and a seconder to himself. Besides, you
2803 IV, 19 | shall be brought out of its secrecy and made manifest," who
2804 V, 3 | respect to those who come in secretly, "and lastly, how he became
2805 IV, 34 | a husband to do in your sect, if his wife commit adultery?
2806 IV, 25 | smaller presumptions have secured a claim to be believed in
2807 III, 2 | did it require, for the securing of this faith, a preparation
2808 II, 13 | able to make a man worse by security in sin? Who is the author
2809 V, 9 | glory which he had from God, seduced by his love of women even
2810 V, 18 | the prophet), where the seducers of the consecrated (Nazarites)
2811 II, 8 | then the victim of that seduction was free, and master of
2812 V, 4 | his seed. He said not 'to seeds,' as of many; but as of
2813 | seeming
2814 V, 10 | as he spake, the apostle seemingly pointed to his own flesh "
2815 III, 18 | would surely have been more seemly to have bent the knee, and
2816 IV, 9 | that of fishermen, as to select from it for apostles Simon
2817 II, 24 | who had made no mistake in selecting him for the kingdom, and
2818 IV, 22 | fact, here described. He selects from His disciples three
2819 II, 6 | namely, freedom of will and self-command might be reckoned as the
2820 IV, 5 | their master, who stands self-condemned either way when once he
2821 I, 1pref | Sea, as it is called, is self-contradictory in its nature, and deceptive
2822 IV, 39 | rather than fighting in self-defence. In short, as he says, "
2823 II, 6 | wanting in this prerogative of self-mastery, so as to perform even good
2824 II, 6 | above all things reign in self-possession a master over others, a
2825 III, 18 | prophets; "and in their self-will they hacked the sinews of
2826 IV, 36 | He is the good God who "sendeth rain on the just and on
2827 IV, 9 | have first uttered that sentiment: "I came not to destroy
2828 IV, 16 | chance-medley of my own sentiments which he would have left
2829 IV, 19 | been taken in Judaea by Sentius Saturni-nus, which might
2830 II, 3 | words, no sort of temporal sequence. It must therefore be accounted
2831 II, 22 | the golden Cherubim and Seraphim were purely an ornament
2832 IV, 29 | as if it were an act of serenity and mildness simply to sever
2833 I, 9 | shall be involved in such a series of questions arising out
2834 IV, 21 | the people; and when his servitor, after contrasting the large
2835 I, 6 | protect us, inasmuch as it settles the entire condition of
2836 IV, 14 | wicked." Similarly in the seventy-first Psalm: "In righteousness
2837 IV, 11 | questions, it comes from the seventy-seventh Psalm. "I will open," says
2838 IV, 23 | promised by the selfsame severest Judge. "He shall not contend,"
2839 V, 3 | have bestowed no labour on severing faith from the law, when
2840 IV, 21 | that primal wound which severs the child from her who bears
2841 I, 15 | fifteenth of the Emperor Severus; although, as being more
2842 III, 11 | and life; call the womb a sewer of the illustrious animal
2843 IV, 21 | such a time through the sewerage of the body, forthwith to
2844 V, 9 | the truth amidst the dark shadows of ignorance. Nor, again,
2845 IV, 39 | the prophets touching the shaking of the earth, and the elements,
2846 III, 11 | of course, rejected the sham of a nativity, and have
2847 II, 20 | their backs and shoulders shamefully mangled by the fierce application
2848 V, 13 | methods as they are apt (shamelessly) to charge upon Him in other
2849 IV, 21 | never deemed flesh before shaped in the womb; never called
2850 IV, 21 | called foetus after such shaping; was never delivered from
2851 III, 15 | Nor is it subject to be shared in by any other God, especially
2852 IV, 23 | command. Christ therefore shares this kindness with the Creator.
2853 III, 14 | of the law and the gospel sharpened with wisdom, hostile to
2854 IV, 6 | rather for our side, and shatter the assumption of Marcion,
2855 IV, 40 | because, as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so was He not to
2856 I, 14 | the fly, and the gnat's Sheath and sting. What of the greater
2857 I, 13 | meadows; a single little shellfish from any sea, I say not
2858 III, 11 | honouring your god under the shelter of a deception, since he
2859 IV, 23 | THE TRUE CHRIST WAS APT TO SHEW, ALSO IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE
2860 IV, 12 | by boldly breaking up the shew-bread. Even he remembered that
2861 IV, 42 | the phantom also. The only shift left to the impudence of
2862 V, 11 | shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to (give)
2863 IV, 9 | choose from the college of shipmasters, intending one day to appoint
2864 I, 2 | twin Symplegades of his own shipwreck: One whom it was impossible
2865 IV, 37 | opinion of the heretics is shivered to pieces, who say that
2866 IV, 24 | the people wore not out a shoe, even in the wilderness
2867 II, 2 | hid Himself, but always shone out brightly, even before
2868 III, 24 | awoke out of his sleep, and shook through a dread of the spot,
2869 IV, 42 | laughed me to scorn; they did shoot out their lips and shake
2870 V, 7 | from whom emanates this shortness of the time, will also send
2871 II, 20 | exhibit their backs and shoulders shamefully mangled by the
2872 V, 5 | is contained. "The circus shouted," "The forum spoke," and "
2873 V, 9 | all, came not down like a shower, because he descended not
2874 I, 19 | once clear, if you are a shrewd observer. The dates already
2875 IV, 21 | honey; nor did he initiate a shroud with swaddling clothes;
2876 V, 8 | accounted estimable who shun heresies as an evil thing.
2877 III, 16 | provoke him; for he has not shunned you, since my name is upon
2878 IV, 8 | evil spirits, is a cure of sickness. Accordingly, wicked spirits (
2879 I, 5 | two deities, Bythos and Sige, poured forth a swarm of
2880 IV, 39 | earthquakes, and fearful sights, and great signs from heaven"
2881 V, 11 | In Jonah you find the signal act of His mercy, which
2882 IV, 9 | of the Syrian rather was significant throughout the nations of
2883 I, 14 | and the threads of the silkworm; endure, too, if you know
2884 V, 11 | omitted the discussion. A simpler answer I shall find ready
2885 II, 25 | ignorance of our God, which was simulated on this account, that delinquent
2886 IV, 33 | said service could not be (simultaneously) rendered? When, therefore,
2887 V, 4 | the one from the Mount Sinai," in relation to the synagogue
2888 V, 3 | retaining unquestionably a sincere belief in the Creator. They
2889 IV, 34 | them or at least did not sincerely believe that after death
2890 III, 18 | self-will they hacked the sinews of a bullock," that is,
2891 V, 14 | reference to the quality of the sinfulness, and not to any falsity
2892 V, 20 | them it was true, i. e. single-minded, while in others it was
2893 IV, 2 | possess, Marcion seems to have singled out Luke for his mutilating
2894 IV, 1 | I would have encountered singly the several devices Of the
2895 V, 2 | god would have afforded a singularly good and most sufficient
2896 V, 5 | He says: "Behold I lay in Siona stone of stumbling and a
2897 I, 19 | rather, like a pestilential sirocco, exhale this health or salvation,
2898 I, 1pref | account it hospitable from its situation, so is it severed from our
2899 III, 22 | great congregation." In the sixty-seventh Psalm He says again: "In
2900 III, 7 | Christ? They were of like size, and very similar in appearance,
2901 IV, 31 | GREAT SUPPER A PICTORIAL SKETCH OF THE CREATOR'S OWN DISPENSATIONS
2902 V, 4 | have found, they were both sketched out beforehand. When he
2903 V, 6 | designates the teacher who sketches out the divine discipline
2904 V, 5 | discoloration of the reddening skin? What so mean as the statute
2905 II, 11 | thenceforth with coats of skins, but before, nakedness without
2906 IV, 36 | However, that you may not slander His patience, nor fasten
2907 II, 10 | deceit towards man, and slandering of God? Most certainly not
2908 II, 9 | The possibility lay in its slenderness of nature, as being the
2909 III, 8 | still. And those who have slept in Christ have perished;
2910 IV, 15 | worthy of being obeyed than slighted; and thus Marcion's Christ
2911 IV, 39 | them, and subdue them with sling-stones; and they shall drink their
2912 IV, 22 | should be shown in some slough as a sure token of their
2913 IV, 39 | he pleaded in excuse the slowness of his speech, and that
2914 IV, 37 | with Jews had obtained a smattering of their Scriptures, and,
2915 II, 22 | the offerings of Abel, and smelled a sweet savour from the
2916 IV, 16 | should be offered (to the smiter)," in order that He might
2917 III, 5 | I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks (I exposed)
2918 II, 14 | God meet you: it is He who smites, but also heals; who kills,
2919 IV, 28 | the offender: "Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?" He is,
2920 IV, 16 | the contrary, "to him who smiteth us on the one cheek, to
2921 IV, 39 | and fire, and pillars of smoke; the sun shall be turned
2922 V, 1intro| any contraband goods or smuggler's cargo, if you have never
2923 I, 23 | swooping upon an alien world, snatching away man from his God, the
2924 III, 24 | Spirit, admiring such as soar up to the celestial realms
2925 II, 18 | TALIONIS. USEFUL PURPOSES IN A SOCIAL AND MORAL POINT OF VIEW
2926 I, 22 | who yet never saw a single sod of Paradise. And all this
2927 I, 1pref | women are not by their sex softened to modesty. They uncover
2928 IV, 15 | absolutely good god; he had now sojourned a considerable while even
2929 IV, 9 | the one baptism was thus solemnly imputed to Christ, alone,
2930 IV, 5 | the gospel, should be more solicitous about the perversion of
2931 IV, 20 | then fixes itself in two solidified masses, and so, out of the
2932 IV, 8 | Let the wilderness and the solitary place, therefore, be glad
2933 I, 4 | power, possessing a certain solitude, as it were, in his singular
2934 II, 17 | all your Lycurguses and Solons. There is not one after-age
2935 IV, 38 | as having been unable to solve the points on which He was
2936 IV, 17 | a pledge to one who was solvent. Much more clearly is it
2937 IV, 20 | assertion of ignorance: "Somebody hath touched me," He says,
2938 | sometime
2939 | somewhere
2940 III, 5 | and foxes, and from the songsters of marvel and fable. But
2941 IV, 38 | which had acknowledged His Sonship to David; but at the same
2942 III, 24 | of the saints, who rise sooner or later according to their
2943 IV, 12 | charge against Him. Marcion sophistically interprets the stages of
2944 V, 20 | while in others it was sophisticated with over-much learning.
2945 I, 13 | ornament and grace, not of sordidness, those very professors of
2946 IV, 32 | XXXII. A SORT OF SORITES, AS THE LOGICIANS CALL IT,
2947 II, 25 | is at once rebuking and sorrowing. But of course some part
2948 III, 5 | as yet had not happened sounded as if it had been already
2949 IV, 37 | blind man's cry was still sounding in the ears of all: "Jesus,
2950 I, 2 | not seen the one God with soundness of faith. To men of diseased
2951 II, 15 | the fathers had eaten a sour grape, and the children'
2952 II, 17 | not take from primitive sources. At any rate, my Creator
2953 V, 18 | understood anything without their sovereign Lord. Or if (the apostle)
2954 I, 4 | BETWEEN HUMAN POWERS AND GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY. THE OBJECTION OTHERWISE
2955 V, 4 | vengeance. "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
2956 IV, 30 | seed of the kingdom and sows it in the garden of his
2957 IV, 43conc| if he made any. But he spares only such passages as he
2958 III, 24 | work, which we entitle De Spe Fidelium. At present, too,
2959 IV, 34 | walketh in righteousness, speaketh of the straight path, hateth
2960 IV, 22 | assume), "and not in dark speeches." Now, although Marcion
2961 IV, 13 | into a mountain, and there spends a night in prayer, and He
2962 IV, 16 | yet life is not thereby spent under the discipline of
2963 I, 16 | which are in their own sphere great, so also is it fitting
2964 I, 14 | the ant, the webs of the spider, and the threads of the
2965 V, 3 | false brethren who were the spies of their Christian liberty
2966 I, 14 | the blister-beetle, the spikes of the fly, and the gnat'
2967 IV, 29 | grass also toil not, nor spin, and yet are clothed" by
2968 II, 10 | devil, for He maketh those spirtual beings, the angels then
2969 I, 25 | hatred, disdain, indignation, spleen, loathing, displeasure.
2970 IV, 22 | with that cloud), "and His splendour shall be like the light
2971 V, 4 | Christ." Fie on Marcion's sponge! But indeed it is superfluous
2972 IV, 34 | divorce when the marriage is spotted with unfaithfulness. You
2973 V, 4 | had a noble birth, being sprung, as the mystery of the allegory
2974 I, 25 | is unaccompanied with the spur of desire? Who wishes for
2975 IV, 5 | own as late as they are spurious; and should you want to
2976 IV, 8 | in vain), would not have spurned the testimony of an alien
2977 I, 24 | be made out, and not as a squanderer thereof, as you claim your
2978 IV, 40 | the wine-juice, like men stained in blood. Much more clearly
2979 III, 18 | horns; while the midway stake of the whole frame is the
2980 IV, 30 | his ass or his ox from the stall, and lead him away to watering?"
2981 IV, 38 | Creator, is man, who has been stamped with His image, likeness,
2982 V, 9 | who consists of bodily sub stance, as we have often shown
2983 IV, 2 | it afterwards. These all start with the same principles
2984 III, 8 | apostle), but because they had started with assuming the incredibility
2985 I, 16 | and mute of moveable and stationary; of productive and sterile;
2986 IV, 22 | have had their images, or statues, or likenesses; for that
2987 IV, 8 | had Isaiah promised. When "stayed" by the crowds, He said,"
2988 IV, 7 | before the view, without staying. But when it happens that
2989 IV, 31 | of the Gentiles in their stead. Certainly he means to come
2990 V, 11 | which "his face could not be stedfastly seen by the children of
2991 IV, 9 | cleansing in Christ their light, steeped as they were in the stains
2992 IV, 29 | CHAPTER OF ST. LUKE. THE STERNER ATTRIBUTES OF CHRIST, IN
2993 II, 16 | whether wrath, or jealousy, or sternness. For all these are as indispensable
2994 IV, 29 | churches, the similitude of stewards. That steward who should
2995 I, 1pref | All things are torpid, all stiff with cold. Nothing there
2996 II, 24 | avenging ones. What sort of stigmas pertains to these, congruous
2997 IV, 15 | s Christ that He should stigmatize those who persecuted the
2998 IV, 18 | Christ of Israel, and had now stigmatized it, only as one who would
2999 IV, 15 | cause as their friend, by stigmatizing their persecutors. But,
3000 IV, 18 | sacrifice. But even if the stimulus of her repentance proceeded