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 1 1intro|   existence at all, or possessed a nature altogether different from
 2 1intro|            for about His spiritual nature all are agreed. It is 'His
 3 3     | consciousness (of the truth of His nature) was enough for Him. If
 4 3     |         clothed Himself with man's nature, He would have ceased to
 5 3     |            end. Without doubt, the nature of things which are subject
 6 3     |     nothing is equal with God; His nature is different from the condition
 7 3     |          changeful issues of their nature. You have sometimes read
 8 3     |         His real assumption of the nature of man? Or else, did those
 9 4     |        respect of (the mystery of) nature. Of course you are horrified
10 4     |            This reverend course of nature, you, O Marcion, (are pleased
11 4     |           virgin, and of a fleshly nature too, who wallowed in all
12 4     |   before-mentioned humiliations of nature? But some one may say, "
13 5     |           for His father. Thus the nature of the two substances displayed
14 6     |         naturally their own; their nature being of a spiritual substance,
15 6     |      themselves into that which by nature they are not, be unable
16 6     |          greater thing to change a nature than to make matter. But
17 6     |           nothing of the celestial nature (for we read of manna having
18 9     |          it had been of an unusual nature;, or to smear His face with
19 10    |          of our soul in its secret nature, it is certainly not one
20 11    |           enduing it with a bodily nature, although it was before
21 11    |       before invisible; of its own nature, indeed, it was incapable
22 12    |            IT IN HIS PERFECT HUMAN NATURE, NOT TO REVEAL AND EXPLAIN
23 13    |               XIII. CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE. THE FLESH AND THE SOUL
24 14    |         TOOK NOT ON HIM AN ANGELIC NATURE, BUT THE HUMAN. IT WAS MEN,
25 14    |        Christ, they say, bare (the nature of) an angel. For what reason?
26 14    |        which led Him to take human nature. Man's salvation was the
27 14    |         Christ's taking on Him the nature of angels. For although
28 14    |            did He bear the angelic nature, if it were not (that He
29 14    |          official function, not of nature. For He had to announce
30 14    |          appear that He put on the nature of angels if He was made
31 14    |         Well, but as bearing human nature, He is so far made inferior
32 14    |             but as bearing angelic nature, He to the same degree loses
33 15    |         FLESH BEING OF A SPIRITUAL NATURE, EXAMINED AND REFUTED OUT
34 15    |            and they deny the lower nature of that Christ who declares
35 16    |             XVI. CHRIST'S FLESH IN NATURE, THE SAME AS OURS, ONLY
36 16    |        sinned, resembled it in its nature, but not in the corruption
37 16    |           same flesh as that whose nature in man is sinful. In the
38 16    |        that flesh in which was the nature of sin, nor (would it conduce)
39 16    |         different, even a sinless, nature! Then, you say, if He took
40 17    |        that of a man, and from the nature of its constitution, and
41 18    |    ASSUMPTION OF OUR PERFECT HUMAN NATURE BY THE SECOND PERSON OF
42 18    |           must maintain that human nature was not suitable to Him.
43 19    |           CHRIST, AS TO HIS DIVINE NATURE, AS THE WORD OF GOD, BECAME
44 19    |            OF GOD. CHRIST'S DIVINE NATURE, OF ITS OWN ACCORD, DESCENDED
45 20    | naturalists, can tell us, from the nature of women's breasts, whether
46 22    |            son of Abraham." With a nature issuing from such fountal
47 24    |         the plain sense of its own nature, the Scripture aims a blow
48 25conc|             and being human in its nature. And this discussion alone