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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
Against Marcion

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3001 III, 21 | against nation," shall not stir up discord. "Neither shall 3002 III, 20 | and idolatry. For Satan stirred up an Edomite as an enemy 3003 V, 19 | Moreover, from the porch of the Stoics he brings out matter, and 3004 IV, 36 | were at that time no such stone-blind persons as Marcion, that 3005 V, 13 | before God)," and had "stopped every mouth, so that none 3006 IV, 15 | fathers have laid up in store, shall be carried to Babylon." 3007 I, 22 | unbroken, such as, being stored up and kept ready in the 3008 V, 19 | things out of their own stores, and Martian has applied 3009 V, 3 | censures Peter for not walking straightforwardly according to the truth of 3010 IV, 10 | amounts to. For it must needs strain itself to such a pitch of 3011 I, 13 | all the heavenly bodies, Strato the sky and earth, Zeno 3012 IV, 20 | their passage across its stream; how that its waters from 3013 IV, 14 | of Christ to be a rivulet streaming from the springs of salvation. 3014 IV, 31 | them to invite out of "the streets and lanes of the city." 3015 IV, 12 | healing: "The weak hands are strengthened," as were also "the feeble 3016 IV, 19 | We now come to the most strenuously-plied argument of all those who 3017 IV, 15 | false prophets." With equal stress does the Creator, by His 3018 IV, 15 | of ivory, and deliciously stretch themselves upon their couches; 3019 I, 23 | belongs to another, who stretches out his hands to his god 3020 IV, 6 | latter statements we shall strictly examine; and if they shall 3021 IV, 35 | is to object to us the strictness of the law, with the view 3022 III, 7 | baptism: afterwards He was stripped of His first filthy raiment, 3023 IV, 31 | all his work at one hasty stroke, and possesses neither the 3024 I, 24 | pestilences, and His other heavier strokes, but even to His creeping 3025 IV, 36 | his admission (into the stronghold) in which respect (I should 3026 I, 7 | often do worthless menials strut insolently in the names 3027 I, 8 | their old master beats their strutting vanity out of them. Now 3028 V, 7 | Marcion, in his blindness, stumbled at the rock whereof our 3029 V, 5 | or stone is Christ. This stumbling-stone Marcion retains still. Now, 3030 V, 17 | elsewhere) exhibited the stupidity of Pontus, rather than the 3031 V, 9 | who consists of bodily sub stance, as we have often 3032 IV, 39 | they shall devour them, and subdue them with sling-stones; 3033 II, 19 | benevolence, which rather aimed at subduing the nation's hardness of 3034 I, 19 | is desirable that these subject-matters should be distinguished 3035 II, 4 | subject to Him who had subjected all things unto him. To 3036 IV, 28 | in order that He might subjoin a clause on the necessity 3037 III, 14 | majesty," the reason is subjoined: "Because of truth, and 3038 III, 22 | therefore, and likewise subjoining the fact that Christ suffered, 3039 III, 13 | back, and so be destined to subjugate Damascus and Samaria from 3040 IV, 24 | this utter crippling and subjugation of all noxious animals. 3041 II, 2 | what is your view of the sublimer One? Really you are too 3042 III, 23 | His own very palace and sublimest height had been trodden 3043 I, 7 | Supreme. If the happiness, and sublimity, and perfection of the Supreme 3044 IV, 39 | If the Creator quietly submits to this, then He is no " 3045 V, 12 | and cruelty, should have suborned the angel Satan not his 3046 IV, 39 | Jacob, and another shall subscribe himself by the name of lsrael." 3047 IV, 20 | consummation the very winds subserved! Read, too, how that the 3048 V, 13 | distinction? Has your god been subserving the interests of the Creator' 3049 I, 29 | the material on which it subsists; if there is to be no marriage, 3050 I, 15 | Accordingly you have three substances of Deity in the higher instances, 3051 V, 8 | In this Christ the whole substantia of the Spirit would have 3052 V, 1intro| to belong to him, who can substantiate his claim to him by producing 3053 IV, 19 | offence, and for whom He substituted the others, not as being 3054 V, 5 | human language, which often substitutes that which contains for 3055 III, 6 | them, you will even in this subterfuge be defeated. For when you 3056 III, 1intro| that there is undoubtedly a subversion of the rule (of faith), 3057 II, 2 | DIVINE BEING, OPPOSED TO AND SUBVERSIVE OF REVELATION. GOD'S NATURE 3058 IV, 5 | conscience smitten, or again subverts it by shameless tampering. 3059 I, 18 | announcement, had with difficulty succeeded in satisfying men's faith. 3060 III, 16 | Nun was destined to be the successor of Moses, is not his old 3061 IV, 36 | on the contrary, Christ succoured the blind man, to show by 3062 II, 10 | his will as had made him succumb to him (proving that the 3063 I, 24 | in few, naught in many, succumbs to perdition, and is a partner 3064 IV, 15 | flocks of the goats, and sucking calves from the flocks of 3065 V, 12 | hardly lose them (in the suddenness of their change). It was 3066 III, 19 | maintained to be a diversity of sufferers, and thereby also a diversity 3067 IV, 10 | when we preferred to drop suggestions rather than treat them anew. 3068 V, 3 | which he would have had summarily to abolish if he had published 3069 I, 4 | other ranks to Him) the very summit, as it were, of dominion? 3070 II, 25 | was certainly proper to summon the offender, who was concealing 3071 II, 18 | were neither plentiful nor sumptuous, and not likely to pamper 3072 IV, 17 | to him his garment about sunset, and he shall sleep in his 3073 IV, 9 | certain companion in misery (suntalaipôron), and associate in hatred ( 3074 IV, 21 | enough, but even to prove superabundant; and herein He followed 3075 II, 10 | WORK. THE DEVILISH NATURE SUPERADDED BY WILFULNESS. IN MAN'S 3076 IV, 9 | law whether as good, or as supererogatory, or as patient, or as inconstant-provided, 3077 IV, 28 | heart, and obscured with superficial offices the mysteries of 3078 V, 9 | should He have added so superfluously this phrase "from the womb" ( 3079 III, 4 | rival Christ, he might then superinduce his own proper dispensation. 3080 V, 11 | infirmity of the people, and by superinducing thereupon the revelation 3081 II, 16 | He is alive for evermore. Superlative is their folly, who prejudge 3082 V, 5 | away from treating of its superscription, for I was sure that another 3083 II, 1 | alone, that he is no god who supersedes the Creator. Then, when 3084 I, 1pref | work which is the third as superseding the second, but henceforward 3085 V, 2 | simply to show us that the supersession of the law comes from the 3086 V, 19 | was at the suggestion of superstitious angels that he had enacted 3087 II, 14 | although most depraved and superstititious, and, worse still, the harasser 3088 II, 13 | unless some power of fear supervened, such as might compel the 3089 IV, 22 | the old covenant and the supervening of the new. "Not an ambassador, 3090 I, 28 | the life is in a sense the supplement of the Spirit. He therefore 3091 III, 24 | an earthly one, which he supplements with a heavenly, after the 3092 IV, 36 | now presents himself as a suppliant to David's son is afflicted 3093 IV, 36 | from Christ any temple, any suppliants, any sentence (of approval 3094 IV, 36 | manifested to me to receive my supplications? With what formula of worship, 3095 V, 7 | votaries should abstain from supporting their lives on the resources 3096 V | PRECEDING BOOKS, TERTULLIAN SUPPORTS HIS ARGUMENT WITH PROFOUND 3097 IV, 43conc| passages which he did not suppress, when he could have done 3098 I, 22 | infirmity. Now a wilful suppression of goodness will be found 3099 IV, 43conc| or else to justify his suppressions, if he made any. But he 3100 IV, 39 | hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares 3101 IV, 10 | boldness on your part either to surname your God as actually the 3102 I, 7 | just expounded, that the Surpeme Being admits of no comparison 3103 IV, 14 | penalty in out presence, and surrendered His life, laying it down 3104 IV, 14 | Lay the penalty on Him who surrenders His own life, who is held 3105 IV, 21 | Scriptures, and whom he was now surveying in His wonderful deeds. 3106 V, 9 | entertain that their souls survive. As for our bodies, however, 3107 IV, 21 | provided the sense of them survives. But when He charges them 3108 I, 1pref | breast, from which they suspend their battle-axes, and prefer 3109 V, 3 | belief, which was still in suspense about the observance of 3110 IV, 10 | identity of name even looks suspicious in him for whom is claimed 3111 V, 9 | of, and to show that they sustain my view. Now they say that 3112 II, 27 | DIVINE MAJESTY WORTHILY SUSTAINED BY THE ALMIGHTY FATHER, 3113 V, 5 | other than the Creator and Sustainer of both man and the universe 3114 IV, 10 | GIVES HIMSELF. TERTULLIAN SUSTAINS HIS ARGUMENT BY SEVERAL 3115 IV, 29 | distress ourselves about sustenance for our life, or clothing 3116 IV, 21 | he initiate a shroud with swaddling clothes; nor afterwards 3117 V, 12 | this moral (body) might be swallowed up of life," by being rescued 3118 III, 13 | lance before they lacerate; swathed at first in sunshine and 3119 I, 22 | world under his imperial sway!~ 3120 II, 26 | not a vain oath for him to swear that there was no other 3121 II, 11 | trees. Immediately arise sweat and labour for bread, where 3122 III, 8 | resurrection of the dead is also swept away. And so our faith is 3123 IV, 13 | behold upon the mountain the swift feet of Him that bringeth 3124 I, 23 | character of Marcion's god, swooping upon an alien world, snatching 3125 IV, 29 | acts the part of one who swoops down on the things of another, 3126 II, 26 | another God. For when he swore by that which he knew, he 3127 V, 18 | pruning-knife, I do not wonder when syllables are expunged by his hand, 3128 IV, 40 | wished to accomplish the symbol of His own redeeming blood? 3129 V, 7 | showed that the law had a symbolic reference to ourselves, 3130 V, 21 | TERTULLIAN VINDICATES THE SYMMETRY AND DELIBERATE PURPOSE OF 3131 I, 2 | two Gods, like the twin Symplegades of his own shipwreck: One 3132 IV, 10 | healing, but also of the symptoms which followed the cure. 3133 I, 10 | amongst the Egyptians, and the Syrians, and the tribes of Pontus. 3134 III, 13 | Syrophoenicia on the division of the Syrias (by Rome). Its riches Christ 3135 III, 13 | before it was transferred to Syrophoenicia on the division of the Syrias ( 3136 IV, 22 | and let us make three tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for 3137 II, 28 | XXVIII. THE TABLES TURNED UPON MARCION, BY 3138 II, 20 | the scanty comfort of a tacit requital of their long servitude. 3139 I, 26 | offence. For even now that is tacitly permitted which is forbidden 3140 IV, 9 | eat food, forasmuch as the taint of sins would be communicated 3141 IV, 39 | one, which shall not be taker from Him, and His kingdom 3142 II, 10 | his Wickedness, even the tale of his transgressions, because 3143 IV, 17 | clearly be that said, "Why tallest thou me Lord, Lord?" Will 3144 III, 23 | sense of the Scriptures tallying with the issue of the facts 3145 V, 1intro| never thrown overboard or tampered with a freight, you are 3146 IV, 38 | CREATOR'S CHRIST. MARCION'S TAMPERINGS IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR 3147 IV, 8 | submitted to any touch. "Tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, 3148 IV, 8 | touch. "Tangere enim et tangi, nisi corpus, nulla potest 3149 III, 4 | having revealed himself so tardily after the Creator, so hurriedly 3150 II, 9 | heretics an opportunity of tarnishing the Spirit of God, that 3151 II, 4 | the whole world, he might tarry among higher delights, being 3152 II, 24 | Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish; for I knew that Thou art 3153 I, 18 | Romulus did Consus, and Tatius Cloacina, and Hostilius 3154 V, 1intro| bearing fearlessly your taunt. "Then you deny the Apostle 3155 IV, 17 | honeycombs." He then has taunted men as ungrateful who deserved 3156 I, 1pref | of the sacrifices of the Taurians, and the loves of the Colchians, 3157 V, 20 | opportunity, no doubt, of taxing what they preached with 3158 IV, 27 | have aimed no blow at the teachers of an alien law. But why 3159 IV, 1 | of virtue, and in their teachings of the law; but yet all 3160 V, 11 | the body by the wear and tear of its trials, and the renewal 3161 I, 29 | continence? What room for temperance in appetite does famine 3162 I, 16 | too, is himself similarly tempered with diversity, both in 3163 IV, 29 | Sodom and Gomorrah with a tempest of fire. Of Him the psalmist 3164 II, 6 | conferred upon him in both tendencies; so that, as master of himself, 3165 III, 7 | concerning Him: "He is like a tender plant, like a root out of 3166 IV, 35 | diferenee in the gods, as tending to the abasement of the 3167 II, 29 | rational emulation, which tends to maturity. In this sense 3168 I, 8 | prove the heresy of their tenet of a new deity. It will 3169 V, 13 | work is approaching its termination, I must treat but briefly 3170 V, 10 | celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; and that there is one glory 3171 V, 7 | vainly does he propose to me terrors which I shall not have to 3172 I, 17 | character? The former is to be tested by his works, the other 3173 IV, 36 | have possessed any public testimonial of his descent, but was 3174 IV, 19 | Christ. Such a method of testing the point had therefore 3175 I, 13 | unworthy elements divine; as Thales did water, Heraclitus fire, 3176 IV, 35 | only out of the ten was thankful for his release to the divine 3177 III, 24 | who, against such as are thankless for both one promise and 3178 I, 23 | is another's, offers his thanksgivings to his god over bread which 3179 I, 27 | arena, and the lascivious theatre? Why in persecutions also 3180 V, 20 | preaching who was always the theme of the prophets. Now, if 3181 V, 3 | His Christ," in order that thenceforward man might be justified by 3182 V, 4 | But as, in the case of thieves, something of the stolen 3183 V, 15 | made such a display as he thinks fit, let him know that we 3184 II, 10 | should not die if they ate; thirdly, as if God grudged them 3185 V, 7 | rather than the dissolution thoreof. Christ plainly forbids 3186 I, 3 | define Him, in whose being we thoroughly believe, to be that without 3187 II, 29 | reason. Wherefore, most thoughtless Marcion, it was your duty 3188 I, 29 | Thanks should we owe thee, thougod of our heretic, hadst thou 3189 I, 14 | webs of the spider, and the threads of the silkworm; endure, 3190 IV, 39 | grind the earth, and shalt thresh the nations in thy wrath." 3191 V, 12 | refused his request, when thrice entreated to liberate him! 3192 II, 13 | is the road to evil, how thronged in comparison with the opposite: 3193 I, 24 | it only to the Creator's thunderbolts that you lie exposed, or 3194 I, 22 | good when one can, or to thwart what is useful, or to permit 3195 V, 3 | Christian liberty must be thwarted in their efforts to bring 3196 I, 24 | is it malevolence which thwarts it. Since, however, this 3197 I, 19 | period was not the God of the Tiberian; and consequently, that 3198 V, 1intro| Apostle Paul on board, who ticketed him, what owner forwarded 3199 I, 7 | midst of your own Pontic tide. The waves of truth overwhelm 3200 IV, 31 | and persons unconnected by ties of relationship, are not 3201 IV, 22 | and His voice. It was only tight that the New Testament should 3202 II, 16 | cauterize, or amputate, or tighten; whereas there could be 3203 IV, 43conc| my face they will watch tiIl day-light, saying unto me, 3204 II, 17 | the land is spared from tillage; a place is also granted 3205 V, 18 | and the powers, and the tillers of the darkness of this 3206 II, 2 | banished to the toil of tilling the ground, has in his very 3207 III, 15 | familiar amongst them? Then 'tis a fickle and tricksty God 3208 IV, 27 | manner, He upbraids them for tithing paltry herbs, but at the 3209 IV, 33 | the prophets than that one tittle of the Lord's words should 3210 I, 9 | that he is not God who is to-day uncertain, because he has 3211 IV, 22 | said, "Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee." By 3212 I, 22 | pronounced against Marcion's god: tolerant of evil, encouraging wrong, 3213 IV, 43conc| deemed by them, could He have tolerated this opinion concerning 3214 V, 17 | whereof he speaks above, even tom the Christ of the Creator, 3215 III, 7 | accepted and elevated to the top place of the temple, even 3216 II, 10 | covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, 3217 I, 17 | the supreme and best. This topic, however, we shall afterwards 3218 IV, 4 | Gospel, which had been all topsy-turvy from the days of Tiberius 3219 IV, 34 | parable of the rich man tormented in hell, and the poor man 3220 I, 1pref | of snow. All things are torpid, all stiff with cold. Nothing 3221 III, 18 | inveighs against them for the torture of a bullock! Again, in 3222 I, 24 | of marriage, is cruelly tortured in confession. But although 3223 III, 11 | the impure and shameful tortures of parturition, and then 3224 II, 4 | the good tree. Look at the total result: how fruitful was 3225 V, 2 | Creator. He then cursorily touches on his own conversion from 3226 | toward 3227 IV, 8 | Christ, when he had so many towns in Judaea which had not 3228 II, 17 | XVII. TRACE GOD'S GOVERNMENT IN HISTORY 3229 V, 16 | he might extinguish all traces herein of our own God. But 3230 I, 21 | then, one of your churches, tracing its descent from an apostle, 3231 III, 1intro| THIS BOOK.~FOLLOWING the track of my original treatise, 3232 IV, 34 | following spontaneously the tracks of the Creator everywhere, 3233 IV, 39 | Then the elements will tractably endure the accomplishment 3234 IV, 39 | servants wherewithal to trade and get increase even (that 3235 IV, 37 | increased their lord's money by trading? proves Him to be a God 3236 IV, 24 | and the dragon shall Thou trample under foot." So also Isaiah: " 3237 III, 17 | humiliation, and suffering, and tranquillity, from which He will be the 3238 II, 19 | But even in the common transactions of life, and of human intercourse 3239 IV, 29 | Solomon, moreover, was transcendent in glory, and yet was not 3240 I, 1pref | He, as it happened, had transcribed a portion of it, full of 3241 IV, 22 | CONCLUSION SUPPORTED BY THE TRANSFIGURATION. MARCION INCONSISTENT IN 3242 V, 11 | glory" (wherewith Moses was transfigured as by the glory of the Lord) " 3243 V, 12 | apostles, deceitful workers transforming themselves" into likenesses 3244 III, 2 | open to suspicion which transgresses a rule. Now the primary 3245 II, 13 | obedient man, the other for the transgressor.~ 3246 IV, 30 | MUSTARD-SEED, AND OF THE LEAVEN. TRANSITION TO THE SOLEMN EXCLUSION 3247 IV, 13 | other districts even, a transmarine multitude. This fact the 3248 IV, 7 | by him, and by him been transmitted to the earth, which was 3249 II, 3 | Now, although it did not transpires that this was good, because 3250 IV, 43conc| as ye see me have," so transposed, as to mean, "A spirit, 3251 V, 18 | counsellor?" Caught in this trap, the heretic probably changed 3252 V, 8 | are my children, of whom I travail again in birth." Now was 3253 V, 11 | excellency of his power is treasured. For he gives prominence 3254 II, 10 | filled thy barns and thy treasuries. From the day when thou 3255 IV, 26 | tempter will never be able to tremble; or He who from the beginning 3256 IV, 9 | saying to Peter, when he trembled at the very large draught 3257 II, 13 | We dread the Creator's tremendous threats, and yet scarcely 3258 IV, 35 | your brother, should he trespass against you even "seven 3259 IV, 35 | one and the same Being. A trespassing brother He will have rebuked. 3260 V, 11 | the wear and tear of its trials, and the renewal of the 3261 V, 12 | have to be present at the tribunal in their bodies. For it 3262 IV, 39 | answer" when brought before tribunals, even as once He suggested 3263 III, 15 | Then 'tis a fickle and tricksty God whom you describe! To 3264 I, 10 | although another still tries hard to make out his claim.~ 3265 V, 18 | however, is a comparative trifle; for he actually derives 3266 I, 18 | quadrature, or Mars at the trine. The Marcionites are very 3267 I, 11 | be preached up as a new Triptolemus. Or else state some reason 3268 V, 10 | IMAGE OF THE HEAVENLY. THE TRIUMPH OVER DEATH IN ACCORDANCE 3269 V, 10 | expression of the exulting and triumphant challenge to the mortal 3270 IV, 20 | the trophy of the cross He triumphed. Now of what God did the 3271 III, 23 | sublimest height had been trodden by him? Or was it only in 3272 IV, 20 | He fight, and through the trophy of the cross He triumphed. 3273 IV, 43conc| says to them, "Why are ye troubled, and why do thoughts arise 3274 II, 24 | use the word "evils" for troubles and injuries (not malignant 3275 V, 4 | as thyself." "But he that troubleth you shall have to bear judgment." 3276 IV, 36 | shall I approach him?) I trow, none. For the prayer which 3277 I, 17 | should revert to the very trunk of that question of the 3278 IV, 33 | Cursed is the man that trust-eth in man." Since the prophet 3279 V, 20 | pretentious" or their "truthful" faith. For it was to the 3280 III, 9 | truly human, because of the truthfulness of God, who can neither 3281 IV, 41 | pronounced the sentence "Ergo tu fulius Dei es" inter-rogatively, 3282 IV, 39 | popular crowds and unarmed tumults. Nobody measures the copious 3283 V, 3 | when "the nations became tumultuous, and the people imagined 3284 IV, 11 | of salvation and with the tunic of joy, as a bridegroom. 3285 IV, 15 | unto the prophets." What a turncoat is Marcion's Christ! Now 3286 I, 15 | been revealed since the twelfth year of Tiberius Caesar, 3287 I, 2 | introduces two Gods, like the twin Symplegades of his own shipwreck: 3288 V, 10 | changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. For this corruptible" 3289 III, 14 | God as "a doubly sharp, two-edged one." This may be understood 3290 I, 25 | more especially in their Tyrant and Lord, the Creator of 3291 II, 10 | lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus 3292 V, 10 | are reckoned (as to their ultimate conditions) in Adam or in 3293 IV, 9 | and associate in hatred (ummisoumenon), with himself, for the 3294 IV, 34 | man who marries one who is un-divorced. Permanent is the marriage 3295 V, 13 | from heaven against all un-godliness and unrighteousness of men, 3296 I, 25 | emotions? But what volition is unaccompanied with the spur of desire? 3297 I, 12 | do not believe at once by unaided reason, without having some 3298 II, 27 | Father, who is invisible and unapproachable, and placid, and (so to 3299 III, 3 | This, therefore, is the unavoidable inference, that neither 3300 I, 26 | part of a judge. If it is unbecoming for God to discharge a judicial 3301 IV, 29 | that the rejected and the unbelieving should incur the opposite 3302 IV, 1 | according to David also) is unblameable, because "perfect, converting 3303 I, 22 | to be both perpetual and unbroken, such as, being stored up 3304 V, 9 | the most high God, and him uncircumcised too, who blessed the circumcised 3305 IV, 14 | times; with speed, because unclogged by the weights of the ancient 3306 I, 16 | weak; some comely, others uncomely; some twofold, others unique; 3307 IV, 31 | that strangers, and persons unconnected by ties of relationship, 3308 IV, 13 | to have been done by him unconnectedly, which cannot be shown to 3309 IV, 20 | woman who had been. hitherto unconscious of any God, uninitiated 3310 II, 6 | Deity, Himself free and uncontrolled. But if you will take some 3311 IV, 5 | acknowledge them if they were uncorrupt? For it is but natural that 3312 I, 1pref | softened to modesty. They uncover the breast, from which they 3313 IV, 31 | of Israel, or a land left uncultivated?" That is to say: "Then 3314 IV, 16 | to leave the righteous undefended, and the wicked unrestrained! " 3315 IV, 21 | being the necessity of His undergoing these sufferings. "Whosoever," 3316 I, 22 | if thus preceding, might underlie every first material cause, 3317 V, 4 | thyself" (which, in fact, underlies the injunction, 'Bear ye 3318 I, 15 | fabricated a world out of some underlying material which is unbegotten, 3319 IV, 9 | was foretold as about to undertake their sicknesses and infirmities. 3320 III, 7 | the second advent, be not undeservedly deceived respecting the 3321 IV, 37 | the bands of wickedness. undid the heavy burdens, let the 3322 IV, 34 | therefore, whilst matrimony is undissolved, is to commit adultery. 3323 I, 23 | him impious to his God, undutiful to his father, ungrateful 3324 V, 9 | and are confident of its undying destiny, and even the multitude 3325 V, 13 | he has seen fit to leave unerased, strange instances as they 3326 III, 6 | men, without assuming any unfair prejudice regarding their 3327 IV, 23 | not thus have rebutted the unfairness of the rebuke, if he had 3328 II, 13 | an evil, when it is all unfavourable to evil? Will you deny it 3329 V, 18 | Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness;" for ( 3330 V, 11 | through him, are as yet unfulfilled? What had the apostle of 3331 I, 26 | GOD IS HOPELESSLY WEAK AND UNGODLIKE. HE DISLIKES EVIL, BUT DOES 3332 IV, 26 | whose command is also the unholy spirit. When He cast out 3333 I, 19 | peace, which had remained unhurt and unshaken from Christ' 3334 III, 19 | humiliation from the horns of the unicorns;" in other words, from the 3335 I, 1pref | never cheerful; the sky is uniformly cloudy; the whole year is 3336 IV, 8 | not less true, not less unimaginary, than were the hands wherewith 3337 I, 3 | that is, by His absolute uniqueness. Since, then, God is the 3338 V | VARIANCE, THEY WERE IN PERFECT UNISON WITH THE WRITINGS OF THE 3339 IV, 39 | get increase even (that universal kingdom of) all nations, 3340 IV, 34 | who marries a woman who is unlawfully put away is as much of an 3341 | unlikely 3342 III, 23 | But all this would be unmeaning enough, if they suffered 3343 V, 13 | will be clear from the unmedullated text of our own copy. It 3344 I, 22 | there will come to hand unmistakeable rules for examining God' 3345 V, 5 | be "to the Jews," points unmistakeably to the Creator's prophecy 3346 V, 9 | the flesh as gentle and unobserved. Solomon, however, if he 3347 II, 24 | occasionally even from the unpleasantness of some good action, this 3348 V, 16 | god." (This being then an unquestionable position, I ask) which God 3349 III, 10 | the flesh, rather than its unreality, a disgrace? Well, but he 3350 IV, 16 | undefended, and the wicked unrestrained! "Give to every one that 3351 IV, 41 | keep Himself at that moment unrevealed, because a spontaneous recognition 3352 I, 28 | man, who had never been unsealed in respect of him; washes 3353 II, 6 | only so affirming man's unshackled power over his will, that 3354 I, 19 | had remained unhurt and unshaken from Christ's appearance 3355 II, 7 | exclaim, What a frivolous, unstable, and faithless Lord, cancelling 3356 IV, 5 | s form of the Gospel men unsually ascribe to Paul. And it 3357 II, 29 | whilst they were as yet unsubdued. Thus, by help of the Antitheses, 3358 III, 7 | a glorious form, and an unsullied beauty above the sons of 3359 I, 4 | THE OBJECTION OTHERWISE UNTENABLE, FOR WHY STOP AT TWO GODS?~ 3360 II, 11 | yielded spontaneous food and untilled nourishment. Thenceforth 3361 V, 4 | Abraham's name he has left untouched (in the epistle), although 3362 II, 19 | fealty which was (as yet) untried in obedience: for I purposely 3363 III, 8 | flesh of Christ were done untruly, every act of intercourse, 3364 IV, 3 | MARCION INSINUATED THE UNTRUSTWORTHINESS OF CERTAIN APOSTLES WHOM 3365 IV, 15 | malediction, or of some unusually austere exclamation; and 3366 IV, 27 | a man, and not about an unwashed vessel, that even this Pharisee 3367 IV, 13 | will put streams in the unwatered ground"); as if they were 3368 II, 23 | of each case with a most unwavering and provident decision.~ 3369 IV, 30 | Creator, submitting to Him unwillingly; or else, if the process 3370 IV, 20 | who helped the lying, and upheld his detractors? However, 3371 IV, 18 | one who would enforce and Uphold it. If, indeed, He had been 3372 IV, 9 | therefore, he was good whilst upholding the law, he has now become 3373 IV, 27 | those who caught at the uppermost places and the honour of 3374 III, 4 | in opposition to Christ, upsetting His kingdom. Then, no doubt, 3375 IV, 34 | building for them steps upwards into heaven. Down in hell, 3376 IV, 42 | Pilate, they proceeded to urge Him with the serious charge, 3377 I, 7 | strong an objection might be urged against the (superior) god 3378 IV, 18 | evidences whereby he was urging his claims to be received 3379 IV, 17 | PROHIBITION OF USURY AND THE USURIOUS SPIRIT. THE LAW PREPARATORY 3380 II, 6 | servitude, become subject to the usurpation of evil, a slave as much 3381 III, 22 | all the nations and the utmost parts of the earth have 3382 IV, 17 | spiritual blessings. "The utterances of the Lord are sweeter 3383 I, 15 | patches be left here and there vacant, in which some third god 3384 I, 7 | alleging that that name is a vague one, and applied to other 3385 II, 26 | No,no, he says; a much vainer oath by Himself! What was 3386 IV, 36 | law and the prophets. This vainglorious observer of the commandments 3387 V, 3 | ways of the Lord," that valleys and hills and mountains 3388 V, 15 | PUNGENT IN SENSE AND VERY VALUABLE.ST. PAUL UPBRAIDS THE JEWS 3389 III, 24 | and sometimes it would vanish instantly. We say that this 3390 IV, 15 | riches, in the pomps and vanities of the world which these 3391 V, 20 | TO THE PHILIPPIANS. THE VARIANCES AMONGST THE PREACHERS OF 3392 IV, 2 | if there does occur some variation in the order of their narratives, 3393 IV, 1 | THE NEW TESTAMENTS.THESE VARIATIONS QUITE COMPATIBLE WITH ONE 3394 II, 24 | regulated by the occurrence of varying circumstances.~ 3395 II, 4 | and then afterwards the vaster one(of a higher world,) 3396 I, 11 | the true one. One stray vegetable s at least Marcion's god 3397 II, 20 | confuted, eject the black venom of their blasphemy, and 3398 IV, 25 | shall scatter the tokens of ventriloquists, and the devices of those 3399 III, 5 | preliminary remarks I have ventured to make at this first step 3400 II, 20 | built. What shall be your verdict,you discoverer of the most 3401 IV, 11 | physician, if he did not verify it? For, just as nobody 3402 III, 23 | interval from Tiberius to Vespasian did they learn repentance. 3403 I, 13 | sense of the Greek words); Vesta, in like manner, to fire, 3404 IV, 25 | declaration of his works, or any vestiges whereby they might become 3405 IV, 10 | opportunity of putting in a veto in the briefest possible 3406 IV, 15 | fathers, as to condemn their vexatious and persecuting treatment 3407 IV, 20 | again does the same red vibrate, the sea returns in its 3408 III, 6 | and seen as the Father's vicegerent in the name of God), are 3409 IV, 4 | opponents with reciprocal vigor. I say that my Gospel is 3410 IV, 13 | If it was because of the vigour of his faith, there were 3411 V, 18 | apostle, although they are so vilely esteemed by the heretics. " 3412 I, 14 | THE CREATOR, WHOM MARCION VILIFIES. HIS INCONSISTENCY HEREIN 3413 I, 14 | obstinacy of yours! You vilify the things in which you 3414 V, 21 | CONCLUSIONS. TERTULLIAN VINDICATES THE SYMMETRY AND DELIBERATE 3415 I, 29 | the same time earnestly vindicating marriage, whenever hostile 3416 I, 26 | law He promulges, for the vindication of His authority and the 3417 IV, 29 | charging it as a fault upon the vine of Sorech, that when "He 3418 IV, 15 | chant to the sound of the viol; as if they thought they 3419 II, 22 | GOLDEN CHERUBIM WERE NOT VIOLATIONS OF THE SECOND COMMANDMENT. 3420 IV, 12 | might accuse Him surely as a violator of the Sabbath, not as the 3421 III, 8 | the adage runs, "from the viper" and henceforth vomit forth 3422 III, 8 | henceforth vomit forth the virulence of his own disposition, 3423 II, 14 | Even His own people did God visit in their ingratitude. Against 3424 IV, 23 | were for inflicting a like visitation on that obscure village 3425 IV, 18 | up among us, and God hath visited His people." What God? He, 3426 IV, 27 | the Marcionites denounce, visiting the sins of the fathers 3427 I, 16 | animate and inanimate; of vocal and mute of moveable and 3428 IV, 27 | and the love of God. The vocation and the love of what God, 3429 I, 10 | the Pentateuch. For the volume of Moses does not at all 3430 I, 29 | moderation, it is fanned into a voluptuous flame. There is a great 3431 III, 8 | the viper" and henceforth vomit forth the virulence of his 3432 V, 1intro| the tribe of Benjamin, a voracious wolf, devouring his prey 3433 III, 20 | at all nations from the vortex of human error emerging 3434 V, 7 | have been, that his own votaries should abstain from supporting 3435 II, 26 | learn how much privilege is vouch-safed with God to a faithful man 3436 I, 18 | MARCIONITES FAILS IN THE VOUCHERS BOTH OF CREATED EVIDENCE 3437 IV, 35 | expectation that He will vouchsafe to us some prophecy of His 3438 IV, 23 | relates to the (Nazarite) vow of separation; for there 3439 IV, 20 | allegorical sense was to wage a spiritual warfare against 3440 IV, 39 | of wars which were to be waged with legitimate arms, no 3441 IV, 24 | the workman deserves his wages, is in itself a judicial 3442 I, 1pref | Scythian, more roving than the waggon-life of the Sarmatian, more inhuman 3443 I, 1pref | when life is passed in waggons. They have no fixed abode; 3444 III, 4 | course,) he ought to have waited for Christ to appear first, 3445 IV, 34 | of course, Christ) who walketh in righteousness, speaketh 3446 V, 17 | off now that "the middle wall has been broken down" of 3447 IV, 21 | nor afterwards did he ever wallow in his own uncleanness, 3448 III, 24 | figure of its walls would wane gradually, and sometimes 3449 IV, 16 | surely lend him as much as he wanteth," Loans are not usually 3450 IV, 4 | believed it, when in the first warmth of faith he contributed 3451 IV, 39 | Let the disciples also be warned, "lest their hearts be overcharged 3452 II, 4 | providences, from His laws and warnings, so good and merciful.~ 3453 III, 8 | Christ will be found not to warrant faith in Him. For He suffered 3454 IV, 27 | mercy not only to man's washing, but even to sacrifice. 3455 IV, 5 | of Marcion's swarm. Even wasps make combs; so also these 3456 V, 11 | demonstrates both issues here the wasting away of the body by the 3457 III, 5 | offer His services as a water-bailiff or a farmer when He says, " 3458 I, 13 | up with lusty arms, and watered with baths. Thus Osiris 3459 IV, 30 | stall, and lead him away to watering?" When, therefore, He did 3460 II, 26 | alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that 3461 V, 20 | gospel, how that some, "waxing confident by his bonds, 3462 IV, 24 | not again." For what is a wayside blessing but a mutual salutation 3463 IV, 18 | such faith, having come to weaken and destroy it rather than 3464 V, 5 | savoury holocausts? What is weaker than the cleansing of vessels 3465 II, 28 | TRUE GOD.~Now, touching the weaknesses and malignities, and the 3466 V, 16 | s as the awarder of both weal and woe, He must be either 3467 IV, 19 | Isaiah the Lord called these wealthy ladies "Rise up, ye women 3468 I, 14 | the hills of the ant, the webs of the spider, and the threads 3469 I, 21 | heresy is thrust out by this wedge of the truth, that Christ 3470 III, 13 | to the fight. They are, I ween, taught to lance before 3471 IV, 14 | because unclogged by the weights of the ancient law. They 3472 I, 18 | his leading star, or some weird malignants, or Saturn in 3473 V, 4 | Let us not be weary in well-doing;" and "as we have opportunity, 3474 IV, 15 | asking for what he knew to be well-pleasing to God even wisdom he further 3475 IV, 35 | with the mountains and the wells of their ancestors. Thus, 3476 IV, 39 | read in Habakkuk: "Thou wentest forth for the salvation 3477 IV, 13 | from the north and from the west; and these from the land 3478 V, 10 | proposes as his examples "wheat grain, or some other grain, 3479 I, 22 | evil, encouraging wrong, wheedling about his grace, prevaricating 3480 II, 25 | nor ignorant of Adam's whereabouts. It was certainly proper 3481 IV, 8 | Christ) of the prophets, wheresoever He is found in accordance 3482 | wherever 3483 V, 16 | He is not yet come. But whichsoever of the two it is, I want 3484 IV, 30 | will not prove to be one whit better than the Creator. 3485 IV, 10 | scarlet, I will make them as white as snow; even though they 3486 IV, 10 | be like crimson, I will whiten them as wool." In the scarlet 3487 IV, 8 | written, "Her Nazarites were whiter than snow;" even they who 3488 | whither 3489 IV, 23 | said, "I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest,' then, by judicially 3490 I, 29 | whole of His creation, for wholesome and good uses. Meats and 3491 IV, 21 | therefore, could he have said, "Whosever shall be ashamed of me." 3492 IV, 34 | with the mention of John wickedly slain, and of Herod, who 3493 V, 16 | become the object of a more widely spread knowledge. To Him, 3494 I, 29 | unless it be in virginity, widowhood, or celibacy, or has purchased 3495 IV, 14 | fatherless also, and the widows, as well as for consolation 3496 IV, 20 | exterminator of spiritual foes, who wields spiritual arms and fights 3497 V, 9 | either at once by fire or the wild beasts, or even when most 3498 V, 18 | able to stand against the wiles of the devil," does he not 3499 IV, 19 | let him hear." For they wilfully refused to hear, although 3500 II, 10 | DEVILISH NATURE SUPERADDED BY WILFULNESS. IN MAN'S RECOVERY THE DEVIL


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