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 1 2     |        opinion that Christ was not born.~
 2 3     |           have supposed that being born was either impossible for
 3 3     |            whether He willed to be born (for if He had the will,
 4 3     |        also had the power, and was born). I put the argument very
 5 3     |           God had willed not to be born, it matters not why, He
 6 3     |        would deny that he had been born? What God therefore willed
 7 3     |          supposed that He had been born, because they saw Him as
 8 3     |      supposition that He was truly born; for if He were not born,
 9 3     |           born; for if He were not born, He could not have undertaken
10 3     |           to sustain, although not born, the character of having
11 3     |           character of having been born even against! His own consciousness!
12 3     | apprehension that,s if He had been born and truly clothed Himself
13 3     |          man in such wise as to be born and endued with a body of
14 4     |          yet, in what way were you born? You detest a human being
15 4     |      yourself, or even if you were born in a way different from
16 4     |          sure, He had chosen to be born of a mere animal, and were
17 4     |   believing in a God that has been born, and that of a virgin, and
18 5     |          shame, that God should be born, or that He should die?
19 5     |         flesh which knew how to be born, and how to die, human without
20 5     |            human without doubt, as born of a human being. It will
21 5     |            and God, in one respect born, in the other unborn; l
22 5     |          me, He chose rather to be born, than in any part to pretend
23 6     |            SIDEREAL SUBSTANCE, NOT BORN. NATIVITY AND MORTALITY
24 6     |         flesh which was not at all born. So we have found our way "
25 6     |            but without having been born. To this angel, indeed,
26 6     |          His flesh, if it were not born? Inasmuch as that which
27 6     |          Inasmuch as that which is born must undergo this nativity
28 6     |             declaring it to be not born, and yet flesh for all that,
29 6     |         they also (came not) to be born. Christ, however, having
30 6     |         had necessarily to be also born, that He might be capable
31 6     |            dying but that which is born. Between nativity and mortality
32 6     |          is the cause of our being born. Now, since Christ died
33 6     |      undergoes death which is also born, the consequence was nay,
34 6     |   necessity-that He must have been born also, by reason of the condition
35 6     |          fitting for Him not to be born under the pretence that
36 6     |         those angels without being born, and yet in the flesh without
37 6     |         flesh which as yet was not born, because it did not yet
38 7     |          deny that God Himself was born, on the ground that He asked, "
39 7     |          sure, whether He had been born or not? For if this point
40 7     |        existence. We have all been born, and yet all of us have
41 11    |            of doubt whether it was born or not. The soul, therefore (
42 12    |           an invisible essence, is born and dies, unless it were
43 15    |         was not human, and was not born of man, I do not see of
44 15    |             it should be similarly born, not of the Spirit, nor
45 15    |             moreover, should it be born, not of corruptible [seed],
46 15    |           being which has died was born of an incorruptible substance;
47 17    |         for the Son of God's being born of a virgin. He who was
48 17    |          of birth, must Himself be born after a novel fashion, concerning
49 17    |         the new nativity; a man is born in God. And in this man
50 17    |            And in this man God was born, taking the flesh of an
51 17    |       ancient type, the Lord being born as man by a dispensation
52 18    |           the Son of God should be born of a human father's seed,
53 18    |          so likewise, after He was born of the virgin, He was able
54 18    |         required that He should be born of a virgin, why should
55 18    |         pronounced, "that which is born of the flesh is flesh,"
56 18    |         flesh," even because it is born of the flesh. But if He
57 18    |            He adds, "That which is born of the Spirit is spirit,"
58 18    |            is a Spirit, and He was born of God. Now this description
59 18    |          is God the Spirit, and is born of God; just as He is also
60 18    |            God; just as He is also born of the flesh of man, being
61 19    |          meaning of this passage, "Born's not of blood, nor of the
62 19    |           in the plural)" Who were born, not of blood, nor of the
63 19    |       principle of the human race, born of blood, and of the will
64 19    |     referring to the Lord, "He was born of God." And very properly,
65 19    |       flesh that He had thus to be born, and not as the Word. Now,
66 19    |        actually denies that He was born of the will of the flesh,
67 19    |         not also deny (that He was born) of the substance of the
68 19    |          when it denied His being "born of blood" but only the matter
69 19    |           emphasis that He was not born of blood, nor of the will
70 19    |          on the point of its being born from sexual intercourse?
71 19    |           did not deny that He was born of real flesh; it rather
72 20    |                         XX. CHRIST BORN OF A VIRGIN, OF HER SUBSTANCE.
73 20    |    Scriptures! You say that He was born through a virgin, not of"
74 20    |          to Joseph, "That which is born in her" (not of her) "is
75 20    |       husband of Mary, of whom was born Christ." But Paul, too,
76 20    |            word "made" rather than born, although the use of the
77 20    |          novelty of Christ's being born of a virgin. It was simply
78 20    |          simply this, that (He was born) of a virgin in the real
79 20    |          the flesh, in that He was born of a virgin's flesh.~
80 21    |            His flesh, although not born of seed, should yet have
81 23    |            that the Son of God was born not of a virgin, but "of
82 24    |           Ebion in the Scripture: "Born, not of blood, nor of the
83 25conc|          THE FLESH WHICH WAS TRULY BORN, AND DIED, AND ROSE AGAIN.~
84 25conc|            Christ having both been born of the virgin, and being