Chapter

 1 2 |         have the best reason to say) cease to live. For indeed
 2 3 |     really does not exist. But, say you, His own consciousness (
 3 3 |       state and condition. But, say you, I deny that God was
 4 3 |    however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held
 5 4 |        nature? But some one may say, "These are not the foolish
 6 6 |         He might have had, they say, a flesh which was not at
 7 6 |        flesh. He borrowed, they say, His flesh from the stars,
 8 6 |   substance. How much more, you say, is it (within their competence
 9 9 |        even to human beauty, to say nothing of heavenly glory.
10 11|         of flesh? For God, they say, desired to make the soul
11 11|         therefore (they further say), was made corporeal in
12 11|         was unknown, that is to say, the flesh? It received
13 11|          And yet, although they say that it is invisible, they
14 12|       sake of emphasis, I would say, "Animae anima sensus est" "
15 12|         the very senses, not to say properties, of them all
16 12|       save the soul. He did not say, "to explain" it. We could
17 13|        and the other, it is, to say the least, very absurd,
18 13| un-figurative terms; that is to say, the soul is called soul,
19 14|       TO SAVE.~But Christ, they say, bare (the nature of) an
20 14|        I may, then, more easily say, if such an expression is
21 14|     formula, "Verily, verily, I say unto you." What need is
22 16|     against us; he will have us say that Christ put on flesh
23 16|         as impossible for us to say that it is abolished, as
24 16|        the flesh, therefore, we say that sin has been abolished,
25 16|      sinless, nature! Then, you say, if He took our flesh, Christ'
26 18|       Father's seed, that is to say, the Spirit might also be
27 18|      with God's Spirit flesh (I say) without seed from man,
28 18|        from God, for "the Word "say they, "was made flesh."
29 19|         from a womb, that is to say, a spiritual one.~
30 20|        the Holy Scriptures! You say that He was born through
31 20|       of blood also, that is to say, the severance (by birth)
32 21|         without reason does she say, "and whence is this to
33 21|      David's loins," that is to say, of his posterity in the
34 23| concerning which these sophists say: "She a virgin and yet not
35 24|     acknowledge Him; that is to say, His very flesh, against