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501 24 | only in another flesh. Happily, however, He who suffered "
502 5 | sense, and foolish in a happy one, by my own contempt
503 4 | flesh He restores from every harassing malady; when leprous, He
504 2 | swaddling-clothes, and the hard stable. We do not care a
505 5 | was bearing about a flesh hardened without bones, solid without
506 2 | have had, O Marcion, the hardihood of blotting out the original
507 | hast
508 14 | such an expression is to be hazarded, that the Son is actually
509 4 | body' as impossible or as hazardous to the character of God,
510 7 | and actively engaged in healing infirmities of body and
511 7 | close to Christ within, hearing and believing, represented
512 12 | There is nothing one oftener hears of than that there is rio
513 15 | views are not improper for heathens and they are fit and natural
514 4 | enlarges from day to day,heavy, troublesome, restless even
515 23 | We read in Ezekiel of "a heifer which brought forth, and
516 14 | might have it) as a powerful helper wherewithal to execute the
517 | Hence
518 | hereafter
519 2 | prescriptive rules against all heresies. Our repetition of them
520 2 | gold to themselves." Let Herod, too, mend his manners,
521 | hers
522 5 | a magician; not as the High Priest of our salvation,
523 14 | however, and "the Power of the Highest," can He be regarded as
524 7 | father, or brothers, as highly as the word of God, He were
525 2 | original records (of the history) of Christ that His flesh
526 2 | Let that old woman also hold her tongue, lest she should
527 24 | other as an ordinary man holding intercourse with all, one
528 4 | IV. GOD'S HONOUR IN THE INCARNATION OF HIS
529 4 | however, ought rather to be honoured in consideration of that
530 4 | nature. Of course you are horrified also at the infant, which
531 2 | multitude of the heavenly host which praised their Lord
532 4 | preached, for his sake "He humbled Himself even unto death
533 9 | knowing it to be earthy? He hungered under the devil's temptation;
534 5 | without the tunic of skin, hungry without appetite, eating
535 24 | CONDEMNED.~For when Isaiah hurls denunciation against our
536 9 | and the Pleiades, and the Hyades. Well, then, the characteristics
537 17 | discussions, as well as with the hymns of Valentinus, which, with
538 8 | difference in the point of ignominy, let them either devise
539 2 | II. MARCION, WHO WOULD BLOT
540 3 | III. CHRIST'S NATIVITY BOTH
541 12 | man dies after a well or ill spent life! These reflections
542 13 | just had recourse to an illustration, we will put it to further
543 20 | Psalms of David, the most illustrious saint and well-known prophet.
544 17 | that God recovered His own image and likeness, of which He
545 23 | womb," wherein it was quite immaterial whether the birth of the
546 12 | since it is the soul that imparts the faculty of perception
547 4 | INCONSISTENT AS WELL AS IMPIOUS. CHRIST HAS CLEANSED THE
548 12 | in this hypothesis, which implies that we are ourselves separate
549 23 | sentence of such doubtful import, especially when Isaiah
550 7 | outside, or to shake off the importunity of those who would call
551 11 | even its existence is an impossibility, unless it has that which
552 12 | after death; and yet what imprecations or deprecations does not
553 5 | crucified;'' falsely has he impressed upon us that He was buried;
554 15 | ourselves? Such views are not improper for heathens and they are
555 1intro| AND VALENTINUS, WISHING TO IMPUGN THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION,
556 6 | from the faith which it impugns? What has it to do with
557 4 | IV. GOD'S HONOUR IN THE INCARNATION OF HIS SON VINDICATED. MARCION'
558 11 | of an invisible one a fit incentive, no doubt, for such questions
559 5 | AND DIED IN HUMAN FLESH. INCIDENTS OF HIS HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH,
560 12 | other, that is, as being incognizable to itself and to us: there
561 13 | body; it is also a wholly incomplex being, and an indivisible
562 4 | DISPARAGEMENT OF HUMAN FLESH INCONSISTENT AS WELL AS IMPIOUS. CHRIST
563 11 | hypothesis, supposed to be incorporeal, so that the soul, whatever
564 11 | invisibility is the result of its incorporeality, or whether it actually
565 5 | that He was buried; falsely inculcated that He rose again. False,
566 9 | how, I ask, could He have incurred contempt and suffering in
567 13 | one body, and has one name indicative, of course, of that one
568 7 | denying one's parents in indignation, one does not deny their
569 5 | thou who art destroying the indispensable dishonour of our faith?
570 13 | incomplex being, and an indivisible substance. But in Christ
571 14 | what reason? The same which induced Him to become man? Christ,
572 24 | God," he strikes at those inexplicable genealogies of the Valentinian
573 5 | be a phantom. O thou most infamous of men, who acquittest of
574 5 | of an imaginary birth and infancy. But answer me at once,
575 17 | introduced to us, it is a just inference that the second Adam likewise,
576 14 | the same degree loses that inferiority. This opinion will be very
577 7 | actively engaged in healing infirmities of body and soul; but all
578 24 | attention to the artful influence of Philumene, the virgin
579 9 | the prophets given us no information whatever concerning His
580 6 | yet this does not once infringe the separate condition of
581 19 | consistency, which is condensed by infusing the rennet. We thus understand
582 3 | return to nothing. If the initial step was out of sight, so
583 3 | the said character without injury to that consciousness of
584 2 | of Caesar, and the scanty inn, and the squalid swaddling-clothes,
585 4 | chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence? These things certainly
586 11 | soul is wholly invisible(inquiring further) whether this invisibility
587 17 | author, let us confine our inquiry to a single point Whether
588 19 | s womb. Why, too, is it insisted on with such an accumulation
589 13 | indicate. Baked clay, for instance, receives the name of brick.
590 4 | censure (I imagine) would have instantly met Him with this demurrer: "
591 16 | The famous Alexander, too, instigated by his love of disputation
592 11 | unless it has that which is instrumental to its existence. Since,
593 16 | mystery a sense which is quite intelligible. For in putting on our flesh,
594 7 | while, whilst strangers were intent on Him, His very nearest
595 10 | substance which He had no intention of saving! And, secondly,
596 17 | consummate assurance, he interpolates as the production of some
597 5 | only the flesh. How do you interpret this statement, Marcion,
598 7 | doing; but they prefer to interrupt Him, and wish to call Him
599 6 | in the flesh without the intervention of the womb. We admit, of
600 5 | blood, built up with bones, interwoven with nerves, entwined with
601 22 | very virgin, and at last introducing Christ, nay, producing Christ
602 4 | feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh now likewise against the
603 4 | preach the kingdom of heaven invested with the body of a beast
604 11 | inquiring further) whether this invisibility is the result of its incorporeality,
605 9 | spitting, if it had not invited it (by its abjectness)?
606 25conc| without encountering the isolated opinions which have been
607 22 | Abraham." With a nature issuing from such fountal sources,
608 4 | IV. GOD'S HONOUR IN THE INCARNATION
609 9 | IX. CHRIST'S FLESH PERFECTLY
610 20 | Abraham to Mary, says, "Jacob begat Joseph the husband
611 15 | bearing of weakness;" and Jeremiah: "He is a man, and who hath
612 2 | mend his manners, so that Jeremy may not glory over him.
613 7 | synagogue, as well as of the Jews in the unbelieving brethren.
614 3 | matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the
615 18 | more than "a Solomon" or "a Jonas,"' as Ebion thought we ought
616 2 | stable. We do not care a jot for that multitude of the
617 4 | reason than because one thus judges. It is of course foolish,
618 12 | acquires any knowledge of His judgment, it professes to commend
619 5 | cheats, and deceives, and juggles the eyes of all, and the
620 9 | pebbles. Look upon the close junctions of the nerves as propagations
621 4 | more easy to believe that Jupiter became a bull or a swan,
622 4 | Creator's Son, it was with justice that He loved His own (creature);
623 7 | the long preceding age, justly employ this same form of
624 13 | soul. Since, however, He keeps the species distinct, the
625 15 | saying: "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told
626 5 | But Marcion will apply the knife' to this doctrine also,,
627 9 | the best of reasons for knowing it to be earthy? He hungered
628 5 | born, in the other unborn; l in one respect fleshly in
629 17 | reduced as yet by no human labour, with no seed as yet cast
630 14 | sends even His Son to the labourers require fruit, as well as
631 11 | existence sui generis. Nothing lacks bodily existence but that
632 20 | that during the period of lactation the monthly issues are suspended.
633 20 | and support, how could the lacteal fountain have been conveyed (
634 23 | not bear;" just as if such language, if indeed it must be uttered,
635 2 | repetition of them hereafter that large (treatise) is superfluous,
636 24 | but the other as timid; lastly, one as suffering death,
637 21 | genealogy is traced from the latest up to the first, so that
638 7 | Behold," it says, "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him."
639 23 | becoming a mother at a leap, as it were, before she
640 7 | present, as even Apelles might learn. "The Lord's brethren had
641 12 | own condition. Before it learns anything about God, it names
642 | least
643 7 | God, He were Himself to leave the word of God as soon
644 17 | AND THE VIRGIN MARY.~But, leaving Alexander with his syllogisms,
645 14 | actuated by the motive which led Him to take human nature.
646 12 | only remaining question left for us to look into is,
647 2 | the wise men spare their legs so long a journey; let them
648 4 | every harassing malady; when leprous, He cleanses it of the stain;
649 2 | acknowledge in a certain letter of yours, and as your followers
650 6 | how to converse with, and liberate, and judge the human race,
651 1intro| under the prompting of that licence which is ever the same in
652 5 | Wherefore halve Christ with a lie? He was wholly the truth.
653 15 | pretend it to be anything he liked, for as much as (and this
654 4 | a bull or a swan, if we listen to Marcion, than that Christ
655 7 | favour even because they listened to the word (of God) He
656 2 | reason to say) cease to live. For indeed you are already
657 5 | V. CHRIST TRULY LIVED AND DIED IN HUMAN FLESH.
658 24 | that His flesh no longer lives.~
659 4 | you likewise, of course, loathe it even after it is washed,
660 9 | the Son of God, for He was looked on as man, for no other
661 3 | latter desired to be let loose, so tightly was he held.
662 14 | nature, He to the same degree loses that inferiority. This opinion
663 8 | angel by the figure of "the lost sheep." The world, then,
664 3 | even washed their feet, and Lot was rescued from the Sodomites
665 4 | to another. Well, then, loving man He loved his nativity
666 15 | again, they read: "Thou madest Him a little less than angels;"
667 24 | intercourse with all, one as magnanimous, but the other as timid;
668 10 | since they assume it as a main tenet, that Christ came
669 17 | origin? And even reason here maintains the same conclusion, because
670 11 | as they start, by their maintenance of a human flesh for it.
671 4 | restores from every harassing malady; when leprous, He cleanses
672 20 | of the lower parts to the mamilla, and in the act of transference
673 9 | the bones as stones; the mamillary glands as a kind of pebbles.
674 5 | be coffined? be laid in a manger, or in a tomb? Talk of "
675 15 | one and so they deny the manhood. They believe that He died,
676 12 | But even this He did not manifest in Himself in a different
677 7 | Christ, whilst preaching and manifesting God, fulfilling the law
678 6 | celestial nature (for we read of manna having been food for the
679 2 | Let Herod, too, mend his manners, so that Jeremy may not
680 9 | and the very treasures of marrow within our bones as ores,
681 7 | adherence to Him, although the Marthas and the other Marys were
682 1intro| discipleship and desertion of Martian. At all events, he who represented
683 7 | the Marthas and the other Marys were in constant attendance
684 11 | covers him with a veil or a mask. This, however, is precisely
685 20 | communicated growth to Him from the matrix? Even when one strange matter
686 15 | Christ Jesus is the one Mediator between God and man." Also
687 17 | in which a virgin was the medium. The earth was still in
688 11 | THOUGH CLOTHED IN IT.~But we meet another argument of theirs,
689 17 | who should blot out the memory of the evil brother. Hence
690 2 | themselves." Let Herod, too, mend his manners, so that Jeremy
691 20 | mother's breasts" which He mentions? No doubt they were those
692 4 | righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence?
693 21 | Christ is inseparable, not merely from Mary, but also from
694 4 | imagine) would have instantly met Him with this demurrer: "
695 14 | angel, as a Gabriel or a Michael. For the Lord of the Vineyard
696 24 | one as escaping out of the midst of the crowds, and the other
697 20 | were those which He sucked. Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists,
698 19 | the coagulation that the milky substance acquires that
699 6 | for us not to doubt in our minds that a property of angelic
700 15 | they discover a human being mingled with a divine one and so
701 9 | only, from His teaching and miracles solely, that men, though
702 9 | Him any new kind of flesh miraculously obtained (from the stars),
703 4 | months long out of that very mire. Describe the womb as it
704 5 | of the dead, but as the misleader of the living, except that,
705 5 | have undergone the unreal mockeries of an imaginary birth and
706 11 | that it would offer this mode of exhibiting itself by
707 1intro| before the appearance of our modern Sadducees, as even to deny
708 20 | period of lactation the monthly issues are suspended. But
709 4 | growth of the flesh for nine: months long out of that very mire.
710 5 | being. It will therefore be mortal in Christ, because Christ
711 9 | down (which covers us) as moss, and the hair as grass,
712 24 | appearing on a solitary mountain to three companions, clothed
713 5 | but from some troop of mountebanks, not as God besides man,
714 24 | fancies of those who exhibit a multiform Christ, who make Christ
715 2 | not care a jot for that multitude of the heavenly host which
716 5 | answer me at once, you that murder truth: Was not God really
717 17 | after the flesh, and the murderer of Himself. God therefore
718 5 | acquittest of all guilt the murderers of God! For nothing did
719 | myself
720 13 | have been thus (confusedly) named if such had been their condition.
721 20 | Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists, can tell us, from the nature
722 6 | bore a flesh which was not naturally their own; their nature
723 7 | actually turned up recovers its naturalness. But there is some ground
724 5 | with equal truth of both natures alike, with the same belief
725 7 | intent on Him, His very nearest relatives were absent. By
726 6 | having been sent to die, had necessarily to be also born, that He
727 6 | nay,it was an antecedent necessity-that He must have been born also,
728 | nevertheless
729 | next
730 2 | which praised their Lord at night? Let the shepherds take
731 | nine
732 | nobody
733 11 | existence but that which is non-existent. If, then, the soul has
734 1intro| Christ would escape the notice of the same eyes and the
735 17 | Himself be born after a novel fashion, concerning which
736 | nowhere
737 4 | womb, even that man who was nursed amidst the nurse's simpers.
738 20 | convert the secretion into the nutritious substance of milk. Whence
739 6 | because He had to die in obedience to that very condition which,
740 15 | suffer dissolution? Such objections even the heathen used constantly
741 25conc| the question, against all objectors, of what that flesh was
742 22 | AND ADAM.~They may, then, obliterate the testimony of the devils
743 9 | Christ; and it is they which obscured Him as the Son of God, for
744 11 | own self, by reason of the obstacle of this flesh, so that it
745 17 | delinquency which the one occasioned by believing, the other
746 4 | turning these conditions into occasions of blushing to the very
747 2 | with the expense of the offering; nor let him be handed to
748 14 | because He undertook the office of a servant. I may, then,
749 14 | by a term expressive of official function, not of nature.
750 | OFTEN
751 12 | God. There is nothing one oftener hears of than that there
752 2 | if you are an apostle, open your message in public;
753 23 | others also: "Every male that openeth the womb shall be called
754 23 | was under the very law of "opening the womb," wherein it was
755 14 | was Himself the Lord, who openly spake by His own authority,
756 23 | But it is marriage which opens the womb in all cases. The
757 20 | a womb, no mother's womb operating upon Him with its usual
758 17 | was by just the contrary operation that God recovered His own
759 8 | power of Christ for such operations, could have done anything
760 17 | But that I may lose no opportunity of supporting my argument
761 3 | the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would
762 11 | XI. THE OPPOSITE EXTRAVAGANCE EXPOSED. THAT
763 14 | Father, even that which ordained the restoration of man.
764 9 | marrow within our bones as ores, of flesh. All these marks
765 17 | she should conceive as an outcast, and bring forth in sorrow.
766 15 | faction, they refuse at the outset to believe that a human
767 9 | even they who despised His outward form. His body did not reach
768 14 | solitary and single serpent had overthrown! There is, then, no longer
769 21 | offspring of the said womb if it owe its birth solely to itself.
770 6 | Now, since Christ died owing to the condition which undergoes
771 9 | that men, though amazed, owned Christ to be man. But if
772 2 | that he may escape the pain thereof; nor let him be
773 6 | since it was composed of so palpably terrene a quality that it
774 4 | rekindles its light; when palsied, He renews its strength;
775 7 | denying His mother's "womb and paps," but designating those
776 23 | CHRIST. ONE OF THE HERETICS' PARADOXES TURNED IN SUPPORT OF CATHOLIC
777 5 | of man without any human parent; just as He is not God without
778 23 | There is not, however, that parity of reasoning which the heretics
779 5 | REFUTATION OF MARCION'S DOCETIC PARODY OF THE SAME.~There are,
780 19 | do so for the purpose of partaking of flesh from the womb.
781 13 | if they are neither in particular, although they become both
782 23 | against the conception and the parturition of the Virgin Mary, concerning
783 4 | righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence? These things
784 6 | flesh of Christ after the pattern of the angels, declaring
785 25conc| preface, and which will pave the way far the approaching
786 9 | mamillary glands as a kind of pebbles. Look upon the close junctions
787 12 | since it is itself that perceives the very senses, not to
788 12 | that imparts the faculty of perception to all (that have sense),
789 14 | assigned to angels also perdition in "the fire prepared for
790 20 | to pass that during the period of lactation the monthly
791 3 | held. Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior
792 17 | syllogisms, which he so perversely applies in his discussions,
793 15 | between God and man." Also Peter, in the Acts of the Apostles,
794 3 | did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not,
795 7 | in another passage: "The Pharisees also came unto Him, tempting
796 20 | VIRGIN, OF HER SUBSTANCE. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTS OF HIS REAL AND EXACT
797 20 | growth which the constituent pieces had communicated to each
798 2 | says he, "with that eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar, and the
799 11 | more consistent with His plan if He displayed the soul
800 20 | apostate, and heretic, and Platonist, but the Psalms of David,
801 7 | happened to be at a stage play, or had laid a wager on
802 17 | THEIR FLESH. AN ANALOGY ALSO PLEASANTLY TRACED BETWEEN EVE AND THE
803 7 | Apelles, or will you Marcion, please (to tell me), if you happened
804 4 | nature, you, O Marcion, (are pleased to) spit upon; and yet,
805 9 | purloined from the Bear, and the Pleiades, and the Hyades. Well, then,
806 19 | was written thus (in the plural)" Who were born, not of
807 20 | spiritually cleansed from all pollutions through Christ, who was
808 16 | again from thence in all the pomp of the Father's glory: it
809 6 | disciples of the heretic of Pontus, compelled to be wiser than
810 11 | consider whether their previous position be that the soul is wholly
811 3 | other things except in His possessing the contrary faculty of
812 21 | that is to say, of his posterity in the flesh, God swears
813 9 | is weak "); at last, He pours out His blood. These, I
814 14 | that He might have it) as a powerful helper wherewithal to execute
815 12 | soul; it has, I mean, a practical knowledge of itself, without
816 2 | the heavenly host which praised their Lord at night? Let
817 19 | from sexual intercourse. Pray, tell me, why the Spirit
818 12 | rational animal, itself being pre-eminently rational. Now, how can that
819 8 | birth. But since Apelles' precious set lay a very great stress
820 25conc| whence it was derived, also predetermined the question, against all
821 6 | those in which he even then predicted him, saying, "Although an
822 14 | spake by His own authority, prefacing His words with the formula, "
823 7 | earnestly doing; but they prefer to interrupt Him, and wish
824 7 | which He called mother in a preferable sense and a worthier brotherhood,
825 7 | Besides, He gave Others the preference; and since He shows their
826 17 | whole of this new birth was prefigured, as was the case in all
827 14 | also perdition in "the fire prepared for the devil and his angels,"
828 20 | of its proper force as a preposition, and to substitute another
829 7 | untrue announcement of the presence of persons who were not
830 3 | not why, He would not have presented Himself in the likeness
831 24 | upon those amongst you who preserve not in the words they employ
832 6 | not to be born under the pretence that it was fitting for
833 3 | should be nothing false (or pretended) attributed to that which
834 6 | easy task for the truth to prevail without raising any such
835 7 | tempting Him." Who was to prevent its being in this place
836 5 | magician; not as the High Priest of our salvation, but as
837 2 | proofs of its reality. But, prithee, on what grounds (do you
838 2 | thought; if you are only a (private) Christian, believe what
839 7 | mother. He might with more probability have had even a father than
840 9 | in other words,that which proceeds from something else is in
841 22 | testimony of the devils which proclaimed Jesus the son of David;
842 22 | introducing Christ, nay, producing Christ Himself of the virgin?
843 12 | knowledge of His judgment, it professes to commend itself to God.
844 22 | David, as a more recent progenitor! For, unfolding the promised
845 1intro| As if indeed, under the prompting of that licence which is
846 7 | discovery of the point which prompts the temptation by its doubtfulness,
847 18 | sententiously and distinctly pronounced, "that which is born of
848 9 | junctions of the nerves as propagations of roots, and the branching
849 24 | DESCRIED IN VARIOUS PASSAGES OF PROPHETICAL SCRIPTURE. THOSE WHO ASSAIL
850 11 | invisible body, He who had proposed to make it visible would
851 6 | of a frying-pan," as the proverb runs, "into the fire," from
852 6 | CHRIST'S CASE HIS DEATH PROVES HIS BIRTH.~But certain disciples
853 6 | people: "Man," says the Psalmist, "did eat angels' bread,")
854 7 | in the Gospel which was published before Marcion's time; whilst
855 20 | regeneration might have virginal purity, spiritually cleansed from
856 9 | celestial substance in Him purloined from the Bear, and the Pleiades,
857 1intro| I. THE GENERAL PURPORT OF THIS WORK. THE HERETICS,
858 3 | condition. If you had not purposely rejected in some instances,
859 12 | reflections are more fully pursued in a short treatise which
860 1intro| would have to be regarded as putative. These facts pertaining
861 3 | changed into something else puts an end to the former state.
862 16 | quite intelligible. For in putting on our flesh, He made it
863 25conc| been raised from different quarters. We have, however, challenged
864 17 | was formed by God into a quickening spirit out of the ground,
865 5 | conjurer in a show; not as the raiser of the dead, but as the
866 4 | other people. Christ, at any rate, has loved even that man
867 12 | be itself ignorant of its rationality, being ignorant of its own
868 17 | manner, and cleanse it by the re-moral of all its ancient stains.
869 9 | outward form. His body did not reach even to human beauty, to
870 4 | exorcises it; when dead, He reanimates it, then shall we blush
871 23 | however, that parity of reasoning which the heretics affect:
872 2 | OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY, IS REBUKED FOR SO STARTLING A HERESY.~
873 13 | Baked clay, for instance, receives the name of brick. It retains
874 | recent
875 23 | which he spoke over the recently-born Saviour: "Behold, this child
876 23 | woman," he in that statement recognised the condition of the "opened
877 6 | The fact will certainly recoil on them as a witness to
878 2 | WHO WOULD BLOT OUT THE RECORD OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY, IS
879 2 | blotting out the original records (of the history) of Christ
880 13 | And since we have just had recourse to an illustration, we will
881 7 | brethren had actually turned up recovers its naturalness. But there
882 14 | perished. Man had perished; his recovery had become necessary. No
883 9 | after all, what is blood but red fluid? what is flesh but
884 8 | entirely does the passage refer the celestial man to the
885 19 | the singular number, as referring to the Lord, "He was born
886 12 | or ill spent life! These reflections are more fully pursued in
887 17 | in order that He might reform it with a new seed, that
888 4 | loved them? Our birth He reforms from death by a second birth
889 15 | for Christ. Any one who refused to believe that that flesh
890 5 | HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH, AND REFUTATION OF MARCION'S DOCETIC PARODY
891 8 | suitable for Him, I am bound to refute them on their own ground.
892 8 | Christ is heavenly even in regard to the flesh, they could
893 23 | and "yet not a virgin," as regards her bearing a child. There
894 20 | indicated, in order that our regeneration might have virginal purity,
895 3 | are subject to change is regulated by this law, that they have
896 6 | Christ, who was even then rehearsing how to converse with, and
897 4 | the stain; when blind, He rekindles its light; when palsied,
898 6 | that such facts have been related. But then, how comes it
899 7 | repudiation of the carnal relationship. It was in just the same
900 7 | on Him, His very nearest relatives were absent. By and by they
901 8 | seem to place their chief reliance when interpreted according
902 3 | bodily form, nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive
903 7 | In their person Israel remained outside, whilst the new
904 12 | of itself. Thus the only remaining question left for us to
905 16 | a human father, let them remember that Adam himself received
906 4 | light; when palsied, He renews its strength; when possessed
907 19 | condensed by infusing the rennet. We thus understand that
908 8 | a certain angel of great renown as having created this world
909 4 | swaddling-clothes, graced with repeated anointing, smiled on with
910 8 | having, after the creation, repented of his work. This indeed
911 2 | against all heresies. Our repetition of them hereafter that large (
912 7 | sense, indeed, that He also replied to that exclamation (of
913 6 | Philumene, the apostle will reply in tones like those in which
914 24 | being and Jesus another, representing one as escaping out of the
915 4 | God, it remains for you to repudiate and censure it as unworthy
916 7 | worthier brotherhood, with the repudiation of the carnal relationship.
917 14 | His Son to the labourers require fruit, as well as His servants.
918 11 | this point, whether it was requisite that the soul should exhibit
919 3 | their feet, and Lot was rescued from the Sodomites by their
920 6 | we have now to show our resistance. They allow that Christ
921 20 | But to what shifts you resort, in your attempt to rob
922 17 | as the production of some respectable author, let us confine our
923 9 | especial form? Consider the respective qualities, of the muscles
924 4 | day,heavy, troublesome, restless even in sleep, changeful
925 11 | among men except as a man. Restore, therefore, to Christ, His
926 4 | from heaven; our flesh He restores from every harassing malady;
927 11 | this invisibility is the result of its incorporeality, or
928 13 | receives the name of brick. It retains not the name which designated
929 15 | flesh has both risen and returned to heaven, is not ours,
930 12 | PERFECT HUMAN NATURE, NOT TO REVEAL AND EXPLAIN IT, BUT TO SAVE
931 4 | with nurse's fawns. This reverend course of nature, you, O
932 4 | error, the whole training in righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience,
933 12 | hears of than that there is rio hope after death; and yet
934 9 | of the veins as winding rivulets, and the down (which covers
935 20 | resort, in your attempt to rob the syllable ex (of) of
936 17 | likeness, of which He had been robbed by the devil. For it was
937 9 | nerves as propagations of roots, and the branching courses
938 21 | product advances from its rudimental condition to perfect fruit.
939 17 | what had been reduced to ruin by this sex, might by the
940 6 | which holds to a different rule borrows materials for its
941 2 | fully of these prescriptive rules against all heresies. Our
942 6 | frying-pan," as the proverb runs, "into the fire," from Marcion
943 15 | Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath-day." (For it is of Him that
944 4 | that peril, or to be held sacred in respect of (the mystery
945 2 | Simeon, lest the old man be saddened at the point of death. Let
946 1intro| appearance of our modern Sadducees, as even to deny that the
947 20 | David, the most illustrious saint and well-known prophet.
948 9 | thirsted with the woman of Samaria; He wept over Lazarus; He
949 20 | voice Christ indeed also sang concerning Himself. Hear,
950 3 | the body of a dove, and sat upon the Lord. When the
951 10 | flesh of it. For while He saves our souls, which are not
952 10 | which He had no intention of saving! And, secondly, if He had
953 3 | been born, because they saw Him as a man, that was their
954 2 | taxing of Caesar, and the scanty inn, and the squalid swaddling-clothes,
955 7 | law and the prophets, and scattering the darkness of the long
956 3 | the very notion of it is scouted; because it makes no difference
957 10 | intention of saving! And, secondly, if He had undertaken deliver
958 10 | condition of our soul in its secret nature, it is certainly
959 20 | transference convert the secretion into the nutritious substance
960 22 | adds, "He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one,
961 11 | indeed, it was incapable of seeing anything, even its own self,
962 15 | man, saying: "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath
963 | seeming
964 3 | of man. Now who, when he sees a man, would deny that he
965 16 | flesh," in the sense of a semblance of body instead of its reality;
966 14 | the Lord of the Vineyard sends even His Son to the labourers
967 24 | flesh sits in heaven void of sensation, like a sheath only, Christ
968 17 | and from the system of its sensations, and from its suffering
969 12 | soul, in my opinion, is sensual. Nothing, therefore, pertaining
970 12 | would say, "Animae anima sensus est" "Sense is the soul'
971 18 | fact) that the Lord Himself sententiously and distinctly pronounced, "
972 13 | each substance has been separately mentioned by itself, conformably
973 14 | undertook the office of a servant. I may, then, more easily
974 25conc| this present one, which serves as a general preface, and
975 24 | for light," he of course sets his mark upon those amongst
976 1intro| resurrection which was firmly settled' before the appearance of
977 24 | Christ to be but one, it shakes the fancies of those who
978 8 | very great stress on the shameful condition s of the flesh,
979 5 | which can prove me to be shameless t in a good sense, and foolish
980 13 | because it has no longer a share in that state. Therefore,
981 24 | void of sensation, like a sheath only, Christ being withdrawn
982 4 | at the infant, which is shed into life with the embarrassments
983 8 | the figure of "the lost sheep." The world, then, must
984 2 | their Lord at night? Let the shepherds take better care of their
985 20 | OF SCRIPTURE.~But to what shifts you resort, in your attempt
986 11 | in order to be able to shine! Now, let us first turn
987 6 | the flesh, and afterwards shipwrecked himself, in the spirit,
988 7 | by the stress either of sickness, or of business, or a journey
989 3 | initial step was out of sight, so was also the final one.
990 24 | the light of their true significance, (by taking care) that the
991 20 | Christ." But Paul, too, silences these critics when he says, "
992 17 | XVII. THE SIMILARITY OF CIRCUMSTANCES BETWEEN
993 4 | nursed amidst the nurse's simpers. For his sake He came down (
994 23 | not, contrary to His usual simplicity of style (in this prophet),
995 8 | Christ with, because of its sinfulness, in other words, our own.
996 20 | and well-known prophet. He sings to us of Christ, and through
997 19 | The expression is in the singular number, as referring to
998 7 | and His brethren, and His sisters, were very well known to
999 21 | that "He will raise up to sit upon his throne." If "of
1000 24 | who affirm that His flesh sits in heaven void of sensation,