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| Alphabetical [« »] sorrow 1 sorrowful 2 sort 7 soul 111 soul-flesh 1 souls 3 source 2 | Frequency [« »] 125 if 117 s 114 by 111 soul 107 man 104 this 101 they | Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus On the flesh of Christ IntraText - Concordances soul |
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1 7 | infirmities of body and soul; but all the while, whilst
2 10| TEXTURE, ANIMALIS, COMPOSED OF SOUL.~I now turn to another class,
3 10| of Christ is composed of soul, that His soul became flesh,
4 10| composed of soul, that His soul became flesh, so that His
5 10| flesh, so that His flesh is soul; and as His flesh is of
6 10| and as His flesh is of soul, so is His soul of flesh.
7 10| flesh is of soul, so is His soul of flesh. But here, again,
8 10| If, in order to save the soul, Christ took a soul within
9 10| the soul, Christ took a soul within Himself, because
10 10| have made that flesh one of soul, as if He could not have
11 10| could not have saved the soul in any other way than by
12 10| secure salvation to that soul which He took Himself, when
13 10| the flesh, but only our soul, how absurd it is, in the
14 10| meaning to save only the soul, He yet made it into just
15 10| carried, He ought, in that soul which He carried to have
16 10| carried to have carried our soul, one (that is) of the same
17 10| is the condition of our soul in its secret nature, it
18 10| However, it was not our soul which He saved, if His own
19 10| if He did not save our soul on the ground, that it was
20 10| the ground, that it was a soul of flesh which He saved,
21 10| because He has not saved our soul. Nor indeed did it need
22 10| salvation, for it was not our soul really, since it was, on
23 10| was, on the supposition, a soul of flesh. But yet it is
24 10| was ours; for it was our soul that was saved, since that
25 10| conclude that as in Christ the soul was not of flesh, so neither
26 10| possibly been composed of soul.~
27 11| EXPOSED. THAT IS CHRIST WITH A SOUL COMPOSED OF FLESH CORPOREAL,
28 11| THOUGH INVISIBLE. CHRIST'S SOUL, LIKE OURS, DISTINCT FROM
29 11| assuming a flesh composed of soul, should seem to have had
30 11| should seem to have had a soul that was made of flesh?
31 11| say, desired to make the soul visible to men, by enduing
32 11| it was born or not. The soul, therefore (they further
33 11| by means of the flesh the soul should demonstrate itself
34 11| it was requisite that the soul should exhibit itself in
35 11| previous position be that the soul is wholly invisible(inquiring
36 11| non-existent. If, then, the soul has an invisible body, He
37 11| since He has set forth the soul as being a different thing
38 11| what has been done to the soul, if it has been clothed
39 11| into flesh. But even if the soul is, on their hypothesis,
40 11| incorporeal, so that the soul, whatever it is, should
41 11| plan if He displayed the soul in some new sort of body,
42 11| adequate cause, a visible soul instead of an invisible
43 11| as a man exhibited even a soul of a thoroughly human condition,
44 12| THE TRUE FUNCTIONS OF THE SOUL. CHRIST ASSUMED IT IN HIS
45 12| let it be granted that the soul is made apparent by the
46 12| ourselves separate from our soul, when all that we are is
47 12| when all that we are is soul. Indeed, without the soul
48 12| soul. Indeed, without the soul we are nothing; there is
49 12| we are ignorant of the soul, it is in fact the soul
50 12| soul, it is in fact the soul that is ignorant of itself.
51 12| look into is, whether the soul was in this matter so ignorant
52 12| in any way it could. The soul, in my opinion, is sensual.
53 12| therefore, pertaining to the soul is unconnected with sense,
54 12| is unconnected with the soul. And if I may use the expression
55 12| sensus est" "Sense is the soul's very soul." Now, since
56 12| Sense is the soul's very soul." Now, since it is the soul
57 12| soul." Now, since it is the soul that imparts the faculty
58 12| the competence of every soul; it has, I mean, a practical
59 12| which knowledge of itself no soul could possibly have exercised
60 12| been furnished with such a soul as would make him the rational
61 12| rational. Now, how can that soul which makes man a rational
62 12| deprecations does not the soul use according as the man
63 12| On the Testimony of the Soul." Besides, if the soul was
64 12| the Soul." Besides, if the soul was ignorant of itself from
65 12| descend and take on Him a soul, not that the soul might
66 12| Him a soul, not that the soul might discover itself in
67 12| was manifested," not the soul. And again, "I am come to
68 12| I am come to save the soul. He did not say, "to explain"
69 12| know, of course, that the soul, although an invisible essence,
70 12| was no more composed of soul than his soul was of flesh.
71 12| composed of soul than his soul was of flesh. What further
72 12| of the structure of the soul which we were ignorant of
73 13| NATURE. THE FLESH AND THE SOUL BOTH FULLY AND UN-CONFUSEDLY
74 13| UN-CONFUSEDLY CONTAINED IN IT.~The soul became flesh that the soul
75 13| soul became flesh that the soul might become visible. Well,
76 13| the flesh likewise become soul that the flesh might be
77 13| might be manifested? If the soul is flesh, it is no longer
78 13| is flesh, it is no longer soul, but flesh. If the flesh
79 13| but flesh. If the flesh is soul, it is no longer flesh,
80 13| is no longer flesh, but soul. Where, then, there is flesh,
81 13| flesh, and where there is soul, it has become both one
82 13| we should understand the soul when we name the flesh,
83 13| and when we indicate the soul, explain ourselves as meaning
84 13| state. Therefore, also, the soul of Christ having become
85 13| inseparable property. And the soul is not an inseparable property.
86 13| it has become flesh, the soul is a uniform solid body;
87 13| But in Christ we find the soul and the flesh expressed
88 13| terms; that is to say, the soul is called soul, and the
89 13| say, the soul is called soul, and the flesh, flesh; nowhere
90 13| flesh, flesh; nowhere is the soul termed flesh, or the flesh,
91 13| termed flesh, or the flesh, soul; and yet they ought to have
92 13| properties of both, the soul by itself, and the flesh
93 13| the flesh by itself." "My soul," says He, "is exceeding
94 13| of the world. Now, if the soul had been flesh, there would
95 13| only been in Christ the soul composed of flesh, or else
96 13| else the flesh composed of soul. Since, however, He keeps
97 13| distinct, the flesh and the soul, He shows them to be two.
98 13| one; if not one, then the soul is not composed of flesh,
99 13| flesh, nor the flesh of soul. For the soul-flesh, or
100 13| indeed He even had some other soul apart from that which was
101 13| flesh besides that which was soul. But since He had but one
102 13| had but one flesh and one soul, that "soul which was sorrowful,
103 13| flesh and one soul, that "soul which was sorrowful, even
104 13| species of the flesh-comprised soul.~
105 14| become man, with flesh and soul as the Son of man? As "the
106 15| flesh was not composed. of soul, nor of stellar substance,
107 17| out of it into a living soul. As, then, the first Adam
108 17| of death. Into a virgin's soul, in like manner, must be
109 24| by taking care) that the soul should mean only that which
110 24| maintain) that His flesh and soul are just the same thing,
111 24| thing, or else that His soul is all that exists? but