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  1 1intro|              A CHANGE BY DENYING HIS FLESH.~THEY who are so anxious
  2 1intro|             relation whatever to the flesh, have great cause for besetting
  3 1intro|              cause for besetting the flesh of Christ also with doubtful
  4 1intro|      altogether different from human flesh. For they cannot but be
  5 1intro|              determined that Christ' flesh was human, a presumption
  6 1intro|        opposition to them, that that flesh must by all means rise again,
  7 1intro|           all are agreed. It is 'His flesh that is in question. Its
  8 1intro|         order that he might deny the flesh of Christ, denied also His
  9 1intro|      nativity, or else he denied His flesh in order that he might deny
 10 1intro|            that His nativity and His flesh bore mutual testimony to
 11 1intro|         there is no nativity without flesh, and no flesh without nativity.
 12 1intro|       nativity without flesh, and no flesh without nativity. As if
 13 1intro|               although admitting the flesh, like Apelles, who was first
 14 1intro|             while admitting both the flesh and the nativity, have interpreted
 15 1intro|               he who represented the flesh of Christ to be imaginary
 16 1intro|           grasp the full idea of His flesh.~
 17 2     |          history) of Christ that His flesh may lose the proofs of its
 18 3     |         OPINION OF CHRIST'S APPARENT FLESH DECEPTIVE AND DISHONOURABLE
 19 3     |            and endued with a body of flesh, on this ground, that a
 20 3     |         angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however,
 21 4     |             S DISPARAGEMENT OF HUMAN FLESH INCONSISTENT AS WELL AS
 22 4     |              CHRIST HAS CLEANSED THE FLESH.THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS
 23 4     |          blood, of the growth of the flesh for nine: months long out
 24 4     |           his nativity also, and his flesh as well. Nothing can be
 25 4     |            man; or else withdraw the flesh, and then present to our
 26 4     |        second birth from heaven; our flesh He restores from every harassing
 27 5     |              LIVED AND DIED IN HUMAN FLESH. INCIDENTS OF HIS HUMAN
 28 5     |              that He should bear the flesh, or the cross? be circumcised,
 29 5     |              rise again? I mean this flesh suffused with blood, built
 30 5     |               entwined with veins, a flesh which knew how to be born,
 31 5     |            man is anything else than flesh, or man's flesh comes from
 32 5     |            else than flesh, or man's flesh comes from any other source
 33 5     |       described as being man without flesh, nor the Son of man without
 34 5     |             the Spirit '* and of the flesh. The powers of the Spirit,
 35 5     |              sufferings attested the flesh of man. If His powers were
 36 5     |           His sufferings without the flesh. if His flesh with.its sufferings
 37 5     |            without the flesh. if His flesh with.its sufferings was
 38 5     |          that He was bearing about a flesh hardened without bones,
 39 5     |        myself, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
 40 5     |              possesses, but only the flesh. How do you interpret this
 41 6     |               concede to Christ real flesh, without effect, however,
 42 6     |          might have had, they say, a flesh which was not at all born.
 43 6     |    intercourse with) a woman, in the flesh, and afterwards shipwrecked
 44 6     |          body of Christ was of solid flesh, but without having been
 45 6     |           body, if His body were not flesh? Whence came His flesh,
 46 6     |           not flesh? Whence came His flesh, if it were not born? Inasmuch
 47 6     |          nativity in order to become flesh. He borrowed, they say,
 48 6     |              borrowed, they say, His flesh from the stars, and from
 49 6     |             amongst ourselves in the flesh without the intervention
 50 6     |        therefore, they set forth the flesh of Christ after the pattern
 51 6     |              to be not born, and yet flesh for all that, I should wish
 52 6     |           wherefore they came in the flesh. Never did any angel descend
 53 6     |           the cause why they assumed flesh without undergoing birth.
 54 6     |           being born, and yet in the flesh without doubt, in virtue
 55 6     |              race, in the habit of a flesh which as yet was not born,
 56 6     |           those angels derived their flesh from the stars. If they
 57 6     |            written, neither will the flesh of Christ get its origin
 58 6     |         plain that the angels bore a flesh which was not naturally
 59 6     |           whence they obtained their flesh, it remains for us not to
 60 6     |              convert themselves into flesh have it in their power to
 61 6     |          convert nothing itself into flesh. It is a greater thing to
 62 6     |            that angels derived their flesh from some material substance,
 63 6     |            that even now a celestial flesh had fed on earthly aliments,
 64 6     |            the same way that earthly flesh actually fed on celestial
 65 6     |              condition of the Lord's flesh, because of His different
 66 6     |          should be clothed with that flesh to which death belongs.
 67 6     |              death belongs. Now that flesh to which death belongs is
 68 7     |              the reality of Christ's flesh, wilfully deny that God
 69 8     |         HEAVENLY EVEN IN HIS EARTHLY FLESH.~These passages alone, in
 70 8     |     sufficient for proving the human flesh of Christ by a defence of
 71 8     |          shameful condition s of the flesh, which they will have to
 72 8     |         bring forth evil fruit." The flesh of Christ, therefore, if
 73 8     |             earthy" substance of the flesh of the first man, Adam,
 74 8     |            the spirit and not to the flesh, that those whom it compares
 75 8     |          course even in this "earthy flesh." Now, since Christ is heavenly
 76 8     |       heavenly even in regard to the flesh, they could not be compared
 77 8     |       heavenly in reference to their flesh. If, then, they who become
 78 8     |             an "earthy" substance of flesh, the conclusion which is
 79 8     |         heavenly, but in an "earthy" flesh, even as they are who are
 80 9     |                         IX. CHRIST'S FLESH PERFECTLY NATURAL, LIKE
 81 9     |               from the former by its flesh, from the latter by its
 82 9     |         blood but red fluid? what is flesh but earth in an especial
 83 9     |         within our bones as ores, of flesh. All these marks of the
 84 9     |        proofs that His was an earthy flesh, as ours is; but anything
 85 9     |          been in Him any new kind of flesh miraculously obtained (from
 86 9     |             condition of His terrene flesh which made all things else
 87 9     |        sufferings attested His human flesh, the contumely proved its
 88 9     |               Why talk of a heavenly flesh, when you have no grounds
 89 9     |          trembles at death (for "the flesh," as He says, "is weak ");
 90 9     |             had beamed forth in that flesh of His aught of celestial
 91 10    |           THEY ALLEGED THAT CHRIST'S FLESH WAS OF A FINER TEXTURE,
 92 10    |        conceit. They affirm that the flesh of Christ is composed of
 93 10    |           soul, that His soul became flesh, so that His flesh is soul;
 94 10    |            became flesh, so that His flesh is soul; and as His flesh
 95 10    |            flesh is soul; and as His flesh is of soul, so is His soul
 96 10    |              soul, so is His soul of flesh. But here, again, I must
 97 10    |             in clothing Himself with flesh, He should have made that
 98 10    |             He should have made that flesh one of soul, as if He could
 99 10    |             other way than by making flesh of it. For while He saves
100 10    |            which are not only not of flesh, but are even distinct from
101 10    |           but are even distinct from flesh, how much more able was
102 10    |              when it was also not of flesh? Again, since they assume
103 10    |             forth not to deliver the flesh, but only our soul, how
104 10    |              is certainly not one of flesh. However, it was not our
105 10    |             saved, if His own was of flesh; for ours is not of flesh.
106 10    |            flesh; for ours is not of flesh. Now, if He did not save
107 10    |        ground, that it was a soul of flesh which He saved, He is nothing
108 10    |           the supposition, a soul of flesh. But yet it is evident that
109 10    |           that it has been saved. Of flesh, therefore, it was not composed,
110 10    |           Christ the soul was not of flesh, so neither could His flesh
111 10    |          flesh, so neither could His flesh have possibly been composed
112 11    |              WITH A SOUL COMPOSED OF FLESH CORPOREAL, THOUGH INVISIBLE.
113 11    |             LIKE OURS, DISTINCT FROM FLESH, THOUGH CLOTHED IN IT.~But
114 11    |            why Christ, in assuming a flesh composed of soul, should
115 11    |              a soul that was made of flesh? For God, they say, desired
116 11    |              of the obstacle of this flesh, so that it was even a matter
117 11    |       possible, that by means of the flesh the soul should demonstrate
118 11    |             exhibiting itself by the flesh, until the thing came into
119 11    |         unknown, that is to say, the flesh? It received darkness, forsooth,
120 11    |              by being converted into flesh. But even if the soul is,
121 11    |         their maintenance of a human flesh for it. Christ, however,
122 11    |          condition, not making it of flesh, but clothing it with flesh.~
123 11    |          flesh, but clothing it with flesh.~
124 12    |              is made apparent by the flesh, on the assumption that
125 12    |           was to rise again with the flesh. This is the truth which
126 12    |          than in some Lazarus, whose flesh was no more composed of
127 12    |            soul than his soul was of flesh. What further knowledge,
128 12    |            to be made visible by the flesh?~
129 13    |           CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE. THE FLESH AND THE SOUL BOTH FULLY
130 13    |     CONTAINED IN IT.~The soul became flesh that the soul might become
131 13    |         visible. Well, then, did the flesh likewise become soul that
132 13    |        likewise become soul that the flesh might be manifested? If
133 13    |           manifested? If the soul is flesh, it is no longer soul, but
134 13    |            it is no longer soul, but flesh. If the flesh is soul, it
135 13    |              soul, but flesh. If the flesh is soul, it is no longer
136 13    |             is soul, it is no longer flesh, but soul. Where, then,
137 13    |          soul. Where, then, there is flesh, and where there is soul,
138 13    |            the soul when we name the flesh, and when we indicate the
139 13    |             ourselves as meaning the flesh. All things will be in danger
140 13    |              of Christ having become flesh, cannot be anything else
141 13    |             therefore, it has become flesh, the soul is a uniform solid
142 13    |             we find the soul and the flesh expressed in simple un-figurative
143 13    |              is called soul, and the flesh, flesh; nowhere is the soul
144 13    |          called soul, and the flesh, flesh; nowhere is the soul termed
145 13    |           nowhere is the soul termed flesh, or the flesh, soul; and
146 13    |            soul termed flesh, or the flesh, soul; and yet they ought
147 13    |              soul by itself, and the flesh by itself." "My soul," says
148 13    |         bread that I will give is my flesh, (which I will give) for
149 13    |            Now, if the soul had been flesh, there would have only been
150 13    |          Christ the soul composed of flesh, or else the flesh composed
151 13    |       composed of flesh, or else the flesh composed of soul. Since,
152 13    |            the species distinct, the flesh and the soul, He shows them
153 13    |              soul is not composed of flesh, nor the flesh of soul.
154 13    |           composed of flesh, nor the flesh of soul. For the soul-flesh,
155 13    |            apart from that which was flesh, and bare about another
156 13    |               and bare about another flesh besides that which was soul.
157 13    |             But since He had but one flesh and one soul, that "soul
158 13    |           even unto death," and that flesh which was the "bread given
159 14    |              having become man, with flesh and soul as the Son of man?
160 15    |      VALENTINIAN FIGMENT OF CHRIST'S FLESH BEING OF A SPIRITUAL NATURE,
161 15    |      consistently devise a spiritual flesh for Christ. Any one who
162 15    |         refused to believe that that flesh was human might pretend
163 15    |          proof that Christ had human flesh derived from man, and not
164 15    |              spiritual, and that His flesh was not composed. of soul,
165 15    |              it was not an imaginary flesh; (and no doubt they would
166 15    |            are not formed of earthly flesh; whence, too, it would be
167 15    |            be necessary that, if His flesh were like ours, it should
168 15    | incorruptible? Why, again, since His flesh has both risen and returned
169 15    |            Or else, why does not His flesh, since it is like ours,
170 15    |             else than death! But our flesh, too, ought immediately
171 16    |                        XVI. CHRIST'S FLESH IN NATURE, THE SAME AS OURS,
172 16    |          WHICH CHRIST ABOLISHED. THE FLESH OF THE FIRST ADAM, NO LESS
173 16    |            us say that Christ put on flesh of an earthly origin, in
174 16    |            own person abolish sinful flesh. Now, even if we did assert
175 16    |             us suppose that the very flesh of Christ was in Himself
176 16    |              carnem peccati, "sinful flesh," but peccatum carnis, "
177 16    |         peccatum carnis, "sin in the flesh," not the material thing,
178 16    |              He abolished sin in the flesh." Now in another sentence
179 16    |            in the likeness of sinful flesh,"not, however, as if He
180 16    |             Him "the likeness of the flesh," in the sense of a semblance
181 16    |           understand likeness to the flesh which sinned, because the
182 16    |            which sinned, because the flesh of Christ, which committed
183 16    |         there was in Christ the same flesh as that whose nature in
184 16    |             in man is sinful. In the flesh, therefore, we say that
185 16    |          because in Christ that same flesh is maintained without sin,
186 16    |              s abolishing sin in the flesh, if He did not abolish it
187 16    |           did not abolish it in that flesh in which was the nature
188 16    |          stain of sin in some better flesh, and one which should possess
189 16    |              you say, if He took our flesh, Christ's was a sinful one.
190 16    |  intelligible. For in putting on our flesh, He made it His own; in
191 16    |           refuse to believe that our flesh was in Christ on the ground
192 16    |           Adam himself received this flesh of ours without the seed
193 16    |              was converted into this flesh of ours without the seed
194 16    |            substance of the selfsame flesh, without a human father'
195 17    |              THE DERIVATION OF THEIR FLESH. AN ANALOGY ALSO PLEASANTLY
196 17    |              Whether Christ received flesh from the virgin? that we
197 17    |             a certain proof that His flesh was human, if He derived
198 17    |           the human character of His flesh, from its name and description
199 17    |             God was born, taking the flesh of an ancient race, without
200 17    |             in other words, out of a flesh which was unstained as yet
201 17    |            His own brother after the flesh, and the murderer of Himself.
202 17    |            man, in that condition of flesh into which man had entered
203 18    |             He only wanted to assume flesh, of the flesh of man without
204 18    |              to assume flesh, of the flesh of man without the seed
205 18    |             short, since He is man's flesh with God's Spirit flesh (
206 18    |              flesh with God's Spirit flesh (I say) without seed from
207 18    |            Word "say they, "was made flesh." Now this very statement
208 18    |            what it was that was made flesh; nor can it possibly be
209 18    |          else than the Word was made flesh. Now, whether it was of
210 18    |           Now, whether it was of the flesh that the Word was made flesh,
211 18    |         flesh that the Word was made flesh, or whether it was so made
212 18    |           what it was that was made (flesh), and says nothing of that
213 18    |            itself, was the Word made flesh. And if not from itself,
214 18    |         suppose that the Word became flesh than from that flesh in
215 18    |          became flesh than from that flesh in which it submitted to
216 18    |            that which is born of the flesh is flesh," even because
217 18    |              is born of the flesh is flesh," even because it is born
218 18    |            because it is born of the flesh. But if He here spoke of
219 18    |              substances, both of the flesh and of the Spirit. Besides,
220 18    |            was in possession both of flesh and of Spirit, He cannot
221 18    |            was His own, but that the flesh was not His own. Forasmuch,
222 18    |            as He is also born of the flesh of man, being generated
223 18    |               being generated in the flesh as man.~
224 19    |              THE WORD OF GOD, BECAME FLESH, NOT BY CARNAL CONCEPTION,
225 19    |               NOR BY THE WILL OF THE FLESH AND OF MAN, BUT BY THE WILL
226 19    |               nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
227 19    |               nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
228 19    |               and of the will of the flesh, and of man, as indeed is
229 19    |           else appertains to God. As flesh, however, He is not of blood,
230 19    |               nor of the will of the flesh, nor of man, because it
231 19    |           God that the Word was made flesh. To the flesh, indeed, and
232 19    |          Word was made flesh. To the flesh, indeed, and not to the
233 19    |            as men, because it was as flesh that He had thus to be born,
234 19    |              born of the will of the flesh, how is it that it did not
235 19    |              of the substance of the flesh? For it did not disavow
236 19    |         disavow the substance of the flesh when it denied His being "
237 19    |           the will of man and of the flesh"), not His nativity from
238 19    |               nor of the will of the flesh, nor (of the will) of man,
239 19    |              if it were not that His flesh was such that no man could
240 19    |             that He was born of real flesh; it rather affirmed this,
241 19    |            not deny His birth in the flesh in the same way that it
242 19    |              purpose of partaking of flesh from the womb. For He could
243 19    |          could have become spiritual flesh without such a process,
244 19    |               Therefore He received (flesh) therefrom; else, if He
245 19    |     especially if He meant to become flesh of that sort which was not
246 20    |        statement, "The Word was made flesh," but he also asserted the
247 20    |          asserted the reality of the flesh which was made of a virgin
248 20    |             But if the Word was made flesh of Himself without any communication
249 20    |      severance (by birth) of its own flesh from the mother's womb.
250 20    |        Himself a virgin, even in the flesh, in that He was born of
251 20    |            He was born of a virgin's flesh.~
252 21    |           WORD OF GOD DID NOT BECOME FLESH EXCEPT IN THE VIRGIN'S WOMB
253 21    |            as the Word of God became flesh without the seed of a human
254 21    |        father, so there should be no flesh of the virgin mother (assisting
255 21    |           confined to this, that His flesh, although not born of seed,
256 21    |              yet have proceeded from flesh? I should like to go more
257 21    |          other hand, the Word became flesh of Himself, then He both
258 21    |             the Word, is not her own flesh. But is this the only statement
259 21    |             a name as this a strange flesh ought not to assume. No
260 21    |              ought not to assume. No flesh can speak of a mother's
261 21    |             well-known fact that the flesh of Christ is inseparable,
262 21    |              of his posterity in the flesh, God swears to him that "
263 22    |           TESTIFIES TO CHRIST'S TRUE FLESH. IN VIRTUE OF WHICH HE IS
264 22    |              described than the very flesh of Abraham and of David
265 22    |              David, according to the flesh," which, therefore, was
266 22    |           His own likewise. Christ's flesh, then, is of David's seed.
267 22    |             in consequence of Mary's flesh, He is therefore of Mary'
268 22    |            He is therefore of Mary's flesh because of the seed of David.
269 22    |       statement, He is either of the flesh of Mary because of the seed
270 22    |              of David because of the flesh of Mary. The whole discussion
271 22    |           these things, what sort of flesh ought we, and can we, acknowledge
272 22    |           ancestors) had a spiritual flesh, that so there might be
273 22    |               or else allow that the flesh of Christ was not a spiritual
274 23    |        produced offspring of her own flesh and "yet she did not bear,"
275 24    |          which is so called, and the flesh simply that which is confest
276 24    |               nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man,
277 24    |          that Christ has come in the flesh. By declaring that His flesh
278 24    |         flesh. By declaring that His flesh is simply and absolutely
279 24    |            own also, only in another flesh. Happily, however, He who
280 24    |             that is to say, His very flesh, against which they spent
281 24    |            shame who affirm that His flesh sits in heaven void of sensation,
282 24    |              who (maintain) that His flesh and soul are just the same
283 24    |            that exists? but that His flesh no longer lives.~
284 25conc|              THE RESURRECTION OF THE FLESH," THE REALITY OF THE FLESH
285 25conc|           FLESH," THE REALITY OF THE FLESH WHICH WAS TRULY BORN, AND
286 25conc|              has been adduced of the flesh in Christ having both been
287 25conc|            have, by showing what the flesh of Christ was, and whence
288 25conc|              objectors, of what that flesh was not. The resurrection,
289 25conc|    resurrection, however, of our own flesh will have to be maintained