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1 9 | the contumely proved its abject condition. Would any man
2 9 | had not invited it (by its abjectness)? Why talk of a heavenly
3 7 | view of the case: in the abjured mother there is a figure
4 16 | the purpose of Christ's abolishing sin in the flesh, if He
5 7 | doubtfulness, falls upon one so abruptly, as not to be preceded by
6 23 | was "a virgin," so far as (abstinence) from a husband went, and "
7 25conc| and this we have done ex abundanti; so that we have, by showing
8 5 | of all, as well as their access to and contact with Him!
9 4 | the embarrassments which accompany it from the womb; you likewise,
10 19 | DIVINE NATURE, OF ITS OWN ACCORD, DESCENDED INTO THE VIRGIN'
11 17 | conceive and bear a son." Accordingly, a virgin did conceive and
12 11 | that part of it which was accounted invisible, visible; because
13 19 | indeed, and not to the Word, accrues the denial of the nativity
14 19 | insisted on with such an accumulation of emphasis that He was
15 6 | preached unto you, let him be accursed." To the arguments, however,
16 5 | most infamous of men, who acquittest of all guilt the murderers
17 9 | it was from His words and actions only, from His teaching
18 7 | preaching the kingdom of God and actively engaged in healing infirmities
19 15 | man." Also Peter, in the Acts of the Apostles, speaks
20 20 | only effect the change by actual possession of the proper
21 14 | become man? Christ, then, was actuated by the motive which led
22 18 | divide their relation, and adapt this to Him, and the previous
23 16 | caution, however, must be addressed to all who refuse to believe
24 25conc| time proof enough has been adduced of the flesh in Christ having
25 11 | mind on making, without an adequate cause, a visible soul instead
26 7 | evidence of His mother's adherence to Him, although the Marthas
27 20 | if it be not that which adheres, that which is firmly fastened
28 7 | because those who were admiring His doctrine said that His
29 8 | for all repentance is the admission of fault, nor has it indeed
30 7 | For in whatever sense He adopted as His own those who adhered
31 7 | I do not admit what you advance of your own apart from Scripture.
32 21 | the blossom every product advances from its rudimental condition
33 24 | genealogies of the Valentinian AEons. Again, there is an answer
34 23 | reasoning which the heretics affect: in other words it does
35 20 | time than when the womb is affected with pregnancy, when the
36 22 | the same Christ, also, he affirms that Christ "was made of
37 1intro| because, of course, he was afraid that His nativity and His
38 7 | darkness of the long preceding age, justly employ this same
39 16 | without a human father's agency.~
40 1intro| spiritual nature all are agreed. It is 'His flesh that is
41 14 | s help? If by an angel's aid, why come Himself also?
42 6 | quality that it fed on earthly ailments. Suppose that even now a
43 7 | yet no temptation, when aiming at the discovery of the
44 24 | own nature, the Scripture aims a blow at all who make distinctions
45 5 | equal truth of both natures alike, with the same belief both
46 10 | OF HERETICS REFUTED. THEY ALLEGED THAT CHRIST'S FLESH WAS
47 7 | deny as His· those who kept aloof from Him. Christ also is
48 1intro| all, or possessed a nature altogether different from human flesh.
49 | always
50 9 | solely, that men, though amazed, owned Christ to be man.
51 17 | DERIVATION OF THEIR FLESH. AN ANALOGY ALSO PLEASANTLY TRACED BETWEEN
52 24 | preached unto you, let him be anathema," he calls attention to
53 21 | DESCENDED FROM HER GREAT ANCESTOR DAVID. HE IS DESCRIBED BOTH
54 22 | either maintain, that those (ancestors) had a spiritual flesh,
55 12 | emphasis, I would say, "Animae anima sensus est" "Sense is the
56 12 | emphasis, I would say, "Animae anima sensus est" "Sense
57 10 | WAS OF A FINER TEXTURE, ANIMALIS, COMPOSED OF SOUL.~I now
58 14 | of nature. For He had to announce to the world the mighty
59 4 | swaddling-clothes, graced with repeated anointing, smiled on with nurse's
60 6 | consequence was nay,it was an antecedent necessity-that He must have
61 24 | of Apelles. Surely he is antichrist who denies that Christ has
62 1intro| HIS FLESH.~THEY who are so anxious to shake that belief in
63 4 | what fashion do you love anybody? Yourself, of course, you
64 25conc| the Scriptures which are appealed to,and this we have done
65 24 | detained by them; one as appearing on a solitary mountain to
66 19 | God, and whatsoever else appertains to God. As flesh, however,
67 5 | of skin, hungry without appetite, eating without teeth, speaking
68 23 | SHOULD BE CONTRADICTED," APPLIED TO THE HERETICAL GAINSAYING
69 17 | which he so perversely applies in his discussions, as well
70 13 | in names secures the safe appreciation of properties. When these
71 3 | You cannot express any apprehension that,s if He had been born
72 1intro| For they cannot but be apprehensive that, if it be once determined
73 25conc| will pave the way far the approaching subject now that it is plain
74 19 | and spiritual which they appropriate to themselves. But how can
75 15 | Jesus Christ was a man approved of God among you." These
76 3 | the competency of your own arbitrary choice, you must needs have
77 1intro| presumption would immediately arise in opposition to them, that
78 7 | But whenever a dispute arises about the nativity, all
79 1intro| resurrection from the same armoury, whence they get their weapons
80 17 | virgin? that we may thus arrive at a certain proof that
81 24 | he calls attention to the artful influence of Philumene,
82 11 | it could not possibly be ascertained that it would offer this
83 9 | FEATURES WHICH THE HERETICS ASCRIBED TO IT DISCOVERABLE, ON A
84 16 | extravagant folly which he ascribes to us in making us suppose
85 7 | born, on the ground that He asked, "Who is my mother, and
86 24 | PROPHETICAL SCRIPTURE. THOSE WHO ASSAIL THE TRUE DOCTRINE OF THE
87 14 | angels. For although there is assigned to angels also perdition
88 21 | flesh of the virgin mother (assisting in the transaction), why
89 11 | question why Christ, in assuming a flesh composed of soul,
90 17 | which, with consummate assurance, he interpolates as the
91 12 | RESURRECTION WITH THE BODY ASSURED BY CHRIST.~Well, now, let
92 6 | nativity is nothing to be astonished at, because it has been
93 20 | shifts you resort, in your attempt to rob the syllable ex (
94 20 | point. Now let us carefully attend to the sense of these passages. "
95 7 | other Marys were in constant attendance on Him. In this very passage
96 3 | His which you on your side attribute to His confidence of being
97 9 | forth in that flesh of His aught of celestial excellence?
98 2 | already in another treatise availed ourselves more fully of
99 16 | but its flaw; and (this we aver) on the authority of the
100 16 | such a way as completely to avoid the extravagant folly which
101 3 | the return of the Spirit back to heaven, and similarly
102 13 | as their names indicate. Baked clay, for instance, receives
103 15 | heathen used constantly to bandy about. Was the Son of God
104 9 | described, if there had beamed forth in that flesh of His
105 18 | substances which He Himself bears, be supposed to have determined
106 4 | invested with the body of a beast either wild or tame, your
107 9 | not reach even to human beauty, to say nothing of heavenly
108 20 | Abraham to Mary, says, "Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,
109 20 | my God from my mother's belly." Here is a third point.
110 3 | Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those
111 4 | He redeemed a being who belonged to another. Well, then,
112 1intro| flesh, have great cause for besetting the flesh of Christ also
113 | beside
114 9 | very contumely He endured bespeak it all. The sufferings attested
115 2 | tongue, lest she should bewitch the child.'' After such
116 | beyond
117 6 | they maintain their own blasphemies from examples derived from
118 22 | unfolding the promised blessing upon all nations in the
119 4 | cleanses it of the stain; when blind, He rekindles its light;
120 5 | solid without muscles, bloody without blood, clothed without
121 2 | Marcion, the hardihood of blotting out the original records (
122 24 | nature, the Scripture aims a blow at all who make distinctions
123 4 | conditions into occasions of blushing to the very creature whom
124 22 | begins his Gospel: "The book of the generation of Jesus
125 3 | human form, and have even borne about so veritable a body,
126 6 | holds to a different rule borrows materials for its own arguments
127 8 | is suitable for Him, I am bound to refute them on their
128 9 | propagations of roots, and the branching courses of the veins as
129 13 | instance, receives the name of brick. It retains not the name
130 3 | I put the argument very briefly. If God had willed not to
131 2 | prophet, Isaiah? He will not brook delay, since sudden/y (without
132 7 | preferable sense and a worthier brotherhood, with the repudiation of
133 17 | into her ear which was to build the edifice of death. Into
134 5 | flesh suffused with blood, built up with bones, interwoven
135 4 | believe that Jupiter became a bull or a swan, if we listen
136 2 | into the temple, lest he burden his parents with the expense
137 7 | either of sickness, or of business, or a journey which He was
138 2 | eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar, and the scanty inn, and
139 24 | let him be anathema," he calls attention to the artful
140 1intro| RESURRECTION, DEPRIVE CHRIST OF ALL CAPACITY FOR SUCH A CHANGE BY DENYING
141 12 | human being, only that of a carcase. If, then, we are ignorant
142 9 | TO IT DISCOVERABLE, ON A CAREFUL VIEW.~We have thus far gone
143 20 | third point. Now let us carefully attend to the sense of these
144 7 | supposed father, Joseph the carpenter, and His mother Mary, and
145 20 | is drawn off from it, it carries with it some part of the
146 8 | heavenly, as Christ also was, carry about an "earthy" substance
147 21 | be silent although she is carrying in her womb the prophetic
148 23 | which opens the womb in all cases. The virgin's womb, therefore,
149 23 | PARADOXES TURNED IN SUPPORT OF CATHOLIC TRUTH.~We acknowledge, however,
150 16 | made it sinless. A word of caution, however, must be addressed
151 7 | BRETHREN. ANSWER TO THE CAVILS OF APELLES AND MARCION,
152 2 | the best reason to say) cease to live. For indeed you
153 7 | deny their existence, but censures their faults. Besides, He
154 4 | creature whom He has redeemed, (censuring them), too, us unworthy
155 9 | Hyades. Well, then, the characteristics which we have enumerated
156 14 | never promised to them. No charge about the salvation of angels
157 7 | wager on a foot race or a chariot race, and were called away
158 4 | training in righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence?
159 5 | good? See how He rather cheats, and deceives, and juggles
160 19 | the woman's blood. In the cheese, it is from the coagulation
161 8 | Marcion seem to place their chief reliance when interpreted
162 1intro| conception, and pregnancy, and child-bearing, and then the whole course
163 3 | competency of your own arbitrary choice, you must needs have supposed
164 5 | the truth. Believe me, He chose rather to be born, than
165 22 | Matthew, that most faithful chronicler of the Gospel, because the
166 5 | flesh, or the cross? be circumcised, or be crucified? be cradled,
167 2 | Spare also the babe from circumcision, that he may escape the
168 20 | is, however, a fortunate circumstance that Matthew also, when
169 18 | to Him, and the previous clause to all other men, especially
170 17 | a spiritual manner, and cleanse it by the re-moral of all
171 4 | malady; when leprous, He cleanses it of the stain; when blind,
172 17 | are at once furnished with clear evidences of the human character
173 9 | qualities, of the muscles as clods; of the bones as stones;
174 21 | I should like to go more closely into this discussion. "Behold,"
175 8 | substance which they disdain to clothe Christ with, because of
176 24 | clothed with glory in a cloud, the other as an ordinary
177 15 | and Daniel: "Upon the clouds (He came) as the Son of
178 23 | by virtue of a husband's co-operation or not; it was the same
179 19 | the cheese, it is from the coagulation that the milky substance
180 19 | convected by ebullition into the coagulum of the woman's blood. In
181 5 | crucified? be cradled, or be coffined? be laid in a manger, or
182 19 | denying His birth from such cohabitation, the passage did not deny
183 15 | who also had "no form nor comeliness, but His form was ignoble,
184 23 | whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." She who bare (
185 14 | Father neither promised nor commanded, Christ could not have undertaken.
186 12 | judgment, it professes to commend itself to God. There is
187 16 | the flesh of Christ, which committed no sin itself, resembled
188 20 | flesh of Himself without any communication with a womb, no mother's
189 22 | the Gospel, because the companion of the Lord; for no other
190 24 | solitary mountain to three companions, clothed with glory in a
191 15 | to triumph over them in company with His friends.~
192 6 | that, I should wish them to compare the causes, both in Christ'
193 8 | flesh, they could not be compared to Him, who are not heavenly
194 8 | flesh, that those whom it compares to Him evidently become
195 6 | of the heretic of Pontus, compelled to be wiser than their teacher,
196 7 | preceded by the question which compels the temptation whilst raising
197 3 | that this lay within the competency of your own arbitrary choice,
198 14 | of God, in sooth, was not competent alone to deliver man, whom
199 2 | once` believed, you have completed the act of rejection, by
200 16 | defend it in such a way as completely to avoid the extravagant
201 6 | wiser than their teacher, concede to Christ real flesh, without
202 10 | equally wise in their own conceit. They affirm that the flesh
203 4 | to judge God by our own conceptions. But, Marcion, consider
204 10 | damnation. We therefore now conclude that as in Christ the soul
205 4 | within the womb, the filthy concretion of fluid and blood, of the
206 17 | had entered ever since his condemnation.~
207 24 | BOTH GOD AND MAN, THUS CONDEMNED.~For when Isaiah hurls denunciation
208 16 | nature of sin, nor (would it conduce) to His glory. For surely
209 24 | flesh simply that which is confest to our view and God none
210 3 | your side attribute to His confidence of being able to sustain,
211 17 | respectable author, let us confine our inquiry to a single
212 21 | not the novelty rather be confined to this, that His flesh,
213 20 | saying "made," he not only confirmed the statement, "The Word
214 13 | separately mentioned by itself, conformably of course, to the distinction
215 13 | ought to have been thus (confusedly) named if such had been
216 5 | our salvation, but as the conjurer in a show; not as the raiser
217 21 | babe, which was already conscious of his Lord, and is, moreover,
218 17 | virgin. He who was going to consecrate a new order of birth, must
219 4 | rather to be honoured in consideration of that peril, or to be
220 3 | undergoing change, wherein will consist the difference of the Divine
221 21 | novelty (of Christ's birth) consisted in this, that as the Word
222 11 | indeed it would be more consistent with His plan if He displayed
223 15 | heretical system, might consistently devise a spiritual flesh
224 8 | composed of celestial elements, consists of faulty materials, sinful
225 16 | temper, has made himself conspicuous against us; he will have
226 7 | the other Marys were in constant attendance on Him. In this
227 15 | objections even the heathen used constantly to bandy about. Was the
228 20 | union and growth which the constituent pieces had communicated
229 4 | these very conditions which constitute the man whom God has redeemed.
230 17 | Valentinus, which, with consummate assurance, he interpolates
231 5 | well as their access to and contact with Him! You ought rather
232 11 | exhibit itself in the manner contended for; and next consider whether
233 23 | view of your own future contentions about the womb of Mary,
234 15 | themselves of all their contentious warmth and artifice. For,
235 8 | heaven and its celestial (contents), and everything which is
236 23 | SIMEON'S "SIGN THAT SHOULD BE CONTRADICTED," APPLIED TO THE HERETICAL
237 6 | mortality there is a mutual contrast. The law which makes us
238 8 | difference of substance; it only contrasts with the once "earthy" substance
239 14 | Saviour, if there be two to contrive salvation, and one of them
240 7 | for it might have been contrived without any mention of either
241 19 | know, is the warm blood as convected by ebullition into the coagulum
242 6 | even then rehearsing how to converse with, and liberate, and
243 4 | foolish things? Are they the conversion of men to the worship of
244 20 | pregnancy, when the veins convey therefrom the blood of the
245 20 | lacteal fountain have been conveyed (from the womb) to the breasts,
246 22 | of Abraham and of David conveying itself down, step after
247 9 | this, therefore, we have a convincing proof that in it there was
248 20 | origin, by the umbilical cord, which communicated growth
249 12 | unless it were exhibited corporeally. We certainly were ignorant
250 6 | NATIVITY AND MORTALITY ARE CORRELATIVE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND IN CHRIST'
251 8 | produced out of it. And "a corrupt tree must needs bring forth
252 3 | rejected in some instances, and corrupter in others, the Scriptures
253 15 | substance; as if, forsooth, corruptibility were something else than
254 15 | should it be born, not of corruptible [seed], but of incorruptible?
255 16 | its nature, but not in the corruption it received from Adam; whence
256 4 | He redeemed at so great a cost. If Christ is the Creator'
257 14 | called "the Angel of great counsel," that is, a messenger,
258 14 | Son will not therefore be counted as one of the servants because
259 3 | will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be
260 9 | roots, and the branching courses of the veins as winding
261 11 | has been clothed with a covering belonging to something else,
262 5 | circumcised, or be crucified? be cradled, or be coffined? be laid
263 7 | nativity, all who reject it as creating a presumption in favour
264 8 | and as having, after the creation, repented of his work. This
265 17 | that the ensnaring word had crept into her ear which was to
266 20 | Paul, too, silences these critics when he says, "God sent
267 24 | out of the midst of the crowds, and the other as detained
268 5 | of God." Have you, then, cut away all sufferings from
269 10 | since that was in peril of damnation. We therefore now conclude
270 15 | who hath known Him?" and Daniel: "Upon the clouds (He came)
271 9 | condition. Would any man have dared to touch even with his little
272 5 | how He rather cheats, and deceives, and juggles the eyes of
273 3 | CHRIST'S APPARENT FLESH DECEPTIVE AND DISHONOURABLE TO GOD,
274 4 | from the nativity itself, declaim against the uncleanness
275 23 | however, that the prophetic declaration of Simeon is fulfilled,
276 16 | in heaven; and we further declare that it will come again
277 8 | human flesh of Christ by a defence of His birth. But since
278 16 | opinion, we should be able to defend it in such a way as completely
279 24 | same way, also, when it defines the very Christ to be but
280 15 | reduced to such a depth of degradation Again, if He rose again
281 14 | angelic nature, He to the same degree loses that inferiority.
282 2 | Isaiah? He will not brook delay, since sudden/y (without
283 17 | believed the angel. The delinquency which the one occasioned
284 1intro| was it? If we succeed in demonstrating it, we shall lay down a
285 24 | CONDEMNED.~For when Isaiah hurls denunciation against our very heretics,
286 4 | had no love of, when you departed from the Church and the
287 12 | yet what imprecations or deprecations does not the soul use according
288 15 | of God reduced to such a depth of degradation Again, if
289 14 | words, "It was no angel, nor deputy, but the Lord Himself who
290 17 | THE SECOND ADAM, AS TO THE DERIVATION OF THEIR FLESH. AN ANALOGY
291 14 | and nothing more than a descendant of David, and not also the
292 22 | and an order gradually descending to the birth of Christ,
293 24 | STRICTURES ON VARIOUS HERETICS DESCRIED IN VARIOUS PASSAGES OF PROPHETICAL
294 1intro| in his discipleship and desertion of Martian. At all events,
295 13 | retains not the name which designated its former state, because
296 13 | differs from their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures
297 15 | like it has been thought desirable (to happen) to ourselves?
298 4 | feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh now likewise against
299 6 | because of His different destination. For One who was to be truly
300 3 | also a spirit; nor did He destroy His own proper substance
301 5 | only hope, thou who art destroying the indispensable dishonour
302 1intro| they get their weapons of destruction. Let us examine our Lord'
303 24 | crowds, and the other as detained by them; one as appearing
304 4 | what way were you born? You detest a human being at his birth;
305 5 | and that indeed to His own detriment that He was bearing about
306 9 | from something else is in development different), yet, after all,
307 3 | then, the things which differ from God, and from which
308 7 | expressing Himself very differently, and not in words which
309 3 | Yet with how much more dignity and consistency would He
310 19 | the flesh? For it did not disavow the substance of the flesh
311 1intro| resembled Apelles both in his discipleship and desertion of Martian.
312 9 | HERETICS ASCRIBED TO IT DISCOVERABLE, ON A CAREFUL VIEW.~We have
313 7 | temptation, when aiming at the discovery of the point which prompts
314 17 | perversely applies in his discussions, as well as with the hymns
315 8 | that substance which they disdain to clothe Christ with, because
316 4 | this demurrer: "This is disgraceful for God, and 'this is unworthy
317 5 | destroying the indispensable dishonour of our faith? Whatsoever
318 3 | APPARENT FLESH DECEPTIVE AND DISHONOURABLE TO GOD, EVEN ON MARCION'
319 4 | changeful in its feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh now
320 4 | SON VINDICATED. MARCION'S DISPARAGEMENT OF HUMAN FLESH INCONSISTENT
321 16 | instigated by his love of disputation in the true fashion of heretical
322 15 | to the ground, and suffer dissolution? Such objections even the
323 3 | seeming to be. When a thing is distasteful, the very notion of it is
324 24 | aims a blow at all who make distinctions in it. In the same way,
325 6 | of the before-mentioned diversity of cause. You, however,
326 15 | if heretics could only divest themselves of all their
327 18 | one also? For you cannot divide their relation, and adapt
328 7 | brothers, they tested His divinity rather than His nativity,
329 5 | REFUTATION OF MARCION'S DOCETIC PARODY OF THE SAME.~There
330 20 | He sucked. Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists, can tell
331 23 | nothing twisted into a double sense. Light is light; and
332 7 | prompts the temptation by its doubtfulness, falls upon one so abruptly,
333 20 | because the angel in the dream said to Joseph, "That which
334 4 | it is washed, when it is dressed out in its swaddling-clothes,
335 | during
336 9 | formation of which out of the dust of the ground is a truth
337 2 | transmitted by those whose duty it was to hand it down.
338 17 | word had crept into her ear which was to build the edifice
339 7 | than that which He was so earnestly doing; but they prefer to
340 5 | word was a phantom to the ears through an imaginary voice.
341 14 | servant. I may, then, more easily say, if such an expression
342 6 | says the Psalmist, "did eat angels' bread,") yet this
343 5 | hungry without appetite, eating without teeth, speaking
344 19 | warm blood as convected by ebullition into the coagulum of the
345 17 | ear which was to build the edifice of death. Into a virgin'
346 22 | they will never be able to efface, There is, first of all,
347 17 | the other by believing effaced. But (it will be said) Eve
348 19 | that mysterious seed of the elect and spiritual which they
349 21 | to itself. Therefore even Elisabeth must be silent although
350 | ELSEWHERE
351 4 | shed into life with the embarrassments which accompany it from
352 6 | reason for angels becoming embodied, you have the cause why
353 17 | virgin did conceive and bear "Emmanuel, God with us." This is the
354 14 | Hear what Isaiah says in emphatic words, "It was no angel,
355 19 | it. He had no reason for enclosing Himself within one, if He
356 25conc| been sufficient, without encountering the isolated opinions which
357 12 | itself. For its salvation is endangered, not by its being ignorant
358 6 | because it begins with birth, ends in death. It was not fitting
359 3 | such wise as to be born and endued with a body of flesh, on
360 11 | soul visible to men, by enduing it with a bodily nature,
361 9 | and the very contumely He endured bespeak it all. The sufferings
362 15 | has not yet subdued His enemies, so as to be able to triumph
363 7 | kingdom of God and actively engaged in healing infirmities of
364 7 | the utmost that which He enjoins on others. How strange,
365 6 | God whose world they also enjoy. The fact will certainly
366 4 | Describe the womb as it enlarges from day to day,heavy, troublesome,
367 17 | was yet a virgin, that the ensnaring word had crept into her
368 23 | the "opened womb" which ensues in marriage. We read in
369 17 | flesh into which man had entered ever since his condemnation.~
370 8 | according to the truth of the entire uncorrupted gospel, ought
371 5 | interwoven with nerves, entwined with veins, a flesh which
372 9 | characteristics which we have enumerated are so many proofs that
373 23 | But with us there is no equivocation, nothing twisted into a
374 4 | if indeed you have not erased it: "God hath chosen the
375 4 | true God, the rejection of error, the whole training in righteousness,
376 24 | another, representing one as escaping out of the midst of the
377 9 | is flesh but earth in an especial form? Consider the respective
378 12 | soul, although an invisible essence, is born and dies, unless
379 12 | say, "Animae anima sensus est" "Sense is the soul's very
380 7 | was teaching others not to esteem mother, or father, or brothers,
381 2 | Away," says he, "with that eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar,
382 24 | again, by means of which event they maintain a resurrection
383 17 | once furnished with clear evidences of the human character of
384 20 | PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS OF HIS REAL AND EXACT BIRTH OF A HUMAN MOTHER,
385 15 | BEING OF A SPIRITUAL NATURE, EXAMINED AND REFUTED OUT OF SCRIPTURE.~
386 6 | their own blasphemies from examples derived from Him. But it
387 9 | of His aught of celestial excellence? From this, therefore, we
388 5 | comes only from the most excellent God, who is both simple
389 4 | another god, His love was excessive, since He redeemed a being
390 7 | message, would you not have exclaimed, "What are mother and brothers
391 7 | He also replied to that exclamation (of a certain woman), not
392 13 | substances distinct in kind, thus excluding the unique species of the
393 14 | powerful helper wherewithal to execute the salvation of man? The
394 12 | soul could possibly have exercised its own functions. I suppose,
395 11 | would offer this mode of exhibiting itself by the flesh, until
396 4 | possessed with devils, He exorcises it; when dead, He reanimates
397 1intro| as even to deny that the expectation thereof has any relation
398 14 | that which He was about to expedite with an angel's help? If
399 2 | burden his parents with the expense of the offering; nor let
400 5 | phantom, He was incapable of experiencing them? We have said above
401 7 | VII. EXPLANATION OF THE LORD'S QUESTION ABOUT
402 11 | THE OPPOSITE EXTRAVAGANCE EXPOSED. THAT IS CHRIST WITH A SOUL
403 3 | which He was not? You cannot express any apprehension that,s
404 13 | find the soul and the flesh expressed in simple un-figurative
405 7 | place, time, and means for expressing Himself very differently,
406 14 | a messenger, by a term expressive of official function, not
407 3 | by the assumption of an extraneous substance. But you ask what
408 11 | XI. THE OPPOSITE EXTRAVAGANCE EXPOSED. THAT IS CHRIST
409 16 | completely to avoid the extravagant folly which he ascribes
410 23 | in marriage. We read in Ezekiel of "a heifer which brought
411 9 | found its way into Gentile fables; it certainly testifies
412 17 | God which was to raise the fabric of life; so that what had
413 9 | nature;, or to smear His face with spitting, if it had
414 15 | of Valentinus' wretched faction, they refuse at the outset
415 18 | Son of a man, He should fail to be also the Son of God,
416 1intro| eyes and the same senses as failed to grasp the full idea of
417 21 | its root; so that the root fails to secures for itself, by
418 22 | all, Matthew, that most faithful chronicler of the Gospel,
419 23 | this child is set for the fall and rising again of many
420 7 | temptation by its doubtfulness, falls upon one so abruptly, as
421 14 | ever used by Christ that familiar phrase of all the prophets, "
422 21 | the root of Jesse is the family of David, and the stem of
423 16 | IS DERIVED FROM IT.~The famous Alexander, too, instigated
424 24 | be but one, it shakes the fancies of those who exhibit a multiform
425 20 | adheres, that which is firmly fastened to anything from which it
426 7 | existence, but censures their faults. Besides, He gave Others
427 7 | which we challenged his own (favourite) gospel to the proof, even
428 4 | smiled on with nurse's fawns. This reverend course of
429 9 | NONE OF THE SUPERNATURAL FEATURES WHICH THE HERETICS ASCRIBED
430 4 | sleep, changeful in its feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh
431 16 | sinful one. Do not, however, fetter with mystery a sense which
432 5 | You will show more of fiat if you refuse to believe
433 5 | with.its sufferings was fictitious, for the same reason was
434 13 | their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe
435 8 | souls tampered with by the fiery author of evil, and so unworthy
436 15 | XV. THE VALENTINIAN FIGMENT OF CHRIST'S FLESH BEING
437 21 | Lord, and is, moreover, filled with the Holy Ghost. For
438 4 | elements within the womb, the filthy concretion of fluid and
439 3 | of sight, so was also the final one. Still there was solidity
440 10 | CHRIST'S FLESH WAS OF A FINER TEXTURE, ANIMALIS, COMPOSED
441 9 | touch even with his little finger, the body of Christ, if
442 16 | not the substance, but its flaw; and (this we aver) on the
443 11 | case, and neither of these flaws is suitable to God. (But
444 13 | the unique species of the flesh-comprised soul.~
445 13 | For the soul-flesh, or the flesh-soul, is but one; unless indeed
446 2 | take better care of their flock, and let the wise men spare
447 20 | breasts, whether they usually flow at any other time than when
448 23 | other words it does not follow that for the reason "she
449 2 | message in public; if a follower of apostles, side with apostles
450 16 | to avoid the extravagant folly which he ascribes to us
451 6 | read of manna having been food for the people: "Man," says
452 5 | wise" unless you become a "fool" to the world, by believing"
453 4 | HAS CLEANSED THE FLESH.THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD IS MOST WISE.~Since,
454 7 | or had laid a wager on a foot race or a chariot race,
455 2 | authority. If you are a prophet, foretell us a thing; if you are an
456 17 | concerning which Isaiah foretold how that the Lord Himself
457 9 | this very body of ours, the formation of which out of the dust
458 | formerly
459 25conc| CONCLUSION.THIS TREATISE FORMS A PREFACE TO THE OTHER WORK, "
460 14 | prefacing His words with the formula, "Verily, verily, I say
461 20 | her." It is, however, a fortunate circumstance that Matthew
462 20 | support, how could the lacteal fountain have been conveyed (from
463 22 | nature issuing from such fountal sources, and an order gradually
464 17 | Indeed she gave birth to a fratricidal devil; whilst Mary, on the
465 24 | of Philumene, the virgin friend of Apelles. Surely he is
466 15 | them in company with His friends.~
467 21 | of prophecy which will be frustrated? Will not the angel's announcement
468 6 | found our way "out of a frying-pan," as the proverb runs, "
469 23 | declaration of Simeon is fulfilled, which he spoke over the
470 7 | preaching and manifesting God, fulfilling the law and the prophets,
471 1intro| senses as failed to grasp the full idea of His flesh.~
472 17 | seed as yet cast into its furrows, when, as we are told, God
473 24 | against which they spent their fury, and without which it would
474 23 | not in view of your own future contentions about the womb
475 5 | is unworthy of God, is of gain to me. I am safe, if I am
476 23 | APPLIED TO THE HERETICAL GAINSAYING OF THE TRUE BIRTH OF CHRIST.
477 24 | strikes at those inexplicable genealogies of the Valentinian AEons.
478 21 | for every step indeed in a genealogy is traced from the latest
479 18 | the flesh of man, being generated in the flesh as man.~
480 4 | against the uncleanness of the generative elements within the womb,
481 11 | r a bodily existence sui generis. Nothing lacks bodily existence
482 9 | which has found its way into Gentile fables; it certainly testifies
483 21 | which received not its germ from the womb, which had
484 9 | as stones; the mamillary glands as a kind of pebbles. Look
485 14 | sure, in one respect more glorious than the prophets, inasmuch
486 19 | tell me, why the Spirit of Gods descended into a woman's
487 17 | of a virgin. He who was going to consecrate a new order
488 2 | journey; let them keep their gold to themselves." Let Herod,
489 9 | CAREFUL VIEW.~We have thus far gone on the principle, that nothing
490 4 | in its swaddling-clothes, graced with repeated anointing,
491 22 | fountal sources, and an order gradually descending to the birth
492 12 | CHRIST.~Well, now, let it be granted that the soul is made apparent
493 1intro| same senses as failed to grasp the full idea of His flesh.~
494 9 | as moss, and the hair as grass, and the very treasures
495 3 | It is of course of the greatest importance that there should
496 1intro| Therefore we shall have to guard our belief in the resurrection
497 5 | men, who acquittest of all guilt the murderers of God! For
498 9 | covers us) as moss, and the hair as grass, and the very treasures
499 5 | all its powers. Wherefore halve Christ with a lie? He was
500 15 | been thought desirable (to happen) to ourselves? Such views