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1001 16 | in public), that it is sitting at the right hand of the
1002 5 | clothed without the tunic of skin, hungry without appetite,
1003 4 | troublesome, restless even in sleep, changeful in its feelings
1004 7 | because, forsooth, they set small store on that which was
1005 9 | an unusual nature;, or to smear His face with spitting,
1006 4 | with repeated anointing, smiled on with nurse's fawns. This
1007 3 | Lot was rescued from the Sodomites by their hands; an angel,
1008 3 | final one. Still there was solidity in their bodily substance,
1009 18 | have nothing more than "a Solomon" or "a Jonas,"' as Ebion
1010 | sometimes
1011 11 | be corporeal, but having somewhat that is invisible. For if
1012 7 | leave the word of God as soon as His mother and brethren
1013 14 | man? The Son of God, in sooth, was not competent alone
1014 23 | concerning which these sophists say: "She a virgin and yet
1015 17 | outcast, and bring forth in sorrow. Indeed she gave birth to
1016 13 | the flesh of soul. For the soul-flesh, or the flesh-soul, is but
1017 22 | issuing from such fountal sources, and an order gradually
1018 11 | different notion, (being spared the idea that) He had set
1019 21 | to assume. No flesh can speak of a mother's womb but that
1020 15 | the Acts of the Apostles, speaks of Him as verily human (
1021 21 | means of the stem, that special product which comes from
1022 20 | might have virginal purity, spiritually cleansed from all pollutions
1023 4 | Marcion, (are pleased to) spit upon; and yet, in what way
1024 9 | or to smear His face with spitting, if it had not invited it (
1025 21 | blossom of the stem which sprouts from the root of Jesse;
1026 2 | the scanty inn, and the squalid swaddling-clothes, and the
1027 2 | swaddling-clothes, and the hard stable. We do not care a jot for
1028 7 | you happened to be at a stage play, or had laid a wager
1029 17 | re-moral of all its ancient stains. But the whole of this new
1030 8 | some substance of a purer stamp, since they are displeased
1031 11 | to God. (But as the case stands in the hypothesis) there
1032 11 | for such questions as they start, by their maintenance of
1033 2 | NATIVITY, IS REBUKED FOR SO STARTLING A HERESY.~Clearly enough
1034 5 | This property of the two states the divine and the human
1035 15 | composed. of soul, nor of stellar substance, and that it was
1036 9 | as clods; of the bones as stones; the mamillary glands as
1037 7 | forsooth, they set small store on that which was doing
1038 21 | as her son, but only as a stranger that Mary carried Jesus
1039 7 | but all the while, whilst strangers were intent on Him, His
1040 3 | wrestled with a man so strenuously with his body, that the
1041 24 | XXIV. DIVINE STRICTURES ON VARIOUS HERETICS DESCRIED
1042 7 | form of words, in order to strike the unbelief of those who
1043 24 | me there was no God," he strikes at those inexplicable genealogies
1044 5 | weak in the other exceeding strong; in on sense dying, in the
1045 12 | have we received of the structure of the soul which we were
1046 21 | Himself, and the prophecy is stultified. For in that case a virgin
1047 23 | His usual simplicity of style (in this prophet), have
1048 15 | while. Christ has not yet subdued His enemies, so as to be
1049 6 | to demonstrate what has subsequently become of their bodies.
1050 20 | as a preposition, and to substitute another for it in a sense
1051 21 | angel's announcement also be subverted, that the virgin should "
1052 1intro| what kind was it? If we succeed in demonstrating it, we
1053 20 | they were those which He sucked. Midwives, and doctors,
1054 2 | will not brook delay, since sudden/y (without any prophetic
1055 5 | again? I mean this flesh suffused with blood, built up with
1056 11 | is r a bodily existence sui generis. Nothing lacks bodily
1057 18 | else, from what can we more suitably suppose that the Word became
1058 20 | is drawn in order to be sundered? If He clove not to the
1059 2 | that large (treatise) is superfluous, when we ask the reason
1060 3 | will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if
1061 9 | LIKE OUR OWN. NONE OF THE SUPERNATURAL FEATURES WHICH THE HERETICS
1062 17 | may lose no opportunity of supporting my argument from the name
1063 20 | lactation the monthly issues are suspended. But if the Word was made
1064 3 | consistency would He have sustained the human character on the
1065 4 | Jupiter became a bull or a swan, if we listen to Marcion,
1066 21 | posterity in the flesh, God swears to him that "He will raise
1067 20 | your attempt to rob the syllable ex (of) of its proper force
1068 17 | leaving Alexander with his syllogisms, which he so perversely
1069 7 | there is a figure of the synagogue, as well as of the Jews
1070 5 | prove me to be shameless t in a good sense, and foolish
1071 4 | of a beast either wild or tame, your censure (I imagine)
1072 6 | from Him. But it is an easy task for the truth to prevail
1073 6 | purpose of being crucified, of tasting death, and of rising again
1074 7 | the sense in which He has taught us to deny ours for God'
1075 2 | with that eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar, and the scanty
1076 6 | compelled to be wiser than their teacher, concede to Christ real
1077 5 | appetite, eating without teeth, speaking without a tongue,
1078 16 | true fashion of heretical temper, has made himself conspicuous
1079 2 | him be brought into the temple, lest he burden his parents
1080 7 | the time aware of. No one tempts (another) in a way in which
1081 10 | they assume it as a main tenet, that Christ came forth
1082 14 | that is, a messenger, by a term expressive of official function,
1083 13 | flesh; nowhere is the soul termed flesh, or the flesh, soul;
1084 22 | The whole discussion is terminated by the same apostle, when
1085 25conc| challenged these opinions to the test, both of the arguments which
1086 7 | mother and brothers, they tested His divinity rather than
1087 10 | CHRIST'S FLESH WAS OF A FINER TEXTURE, ANIMALIS, COMPOSED OF SOUL.~
1088 | Thee
1089 | thence
1090 9 | offer us for your celestial theory? Why deny it to be earthy,
1091 20 | from it? If He who clove thereto was drawn from it, how could
1092 7 | there is some ground for thinking that Christ's answer denies
1093 20 | mother's belly." Here is a third point. Now let us carefully
1094 9 | the devil's temptation; He thirsted with the woman of Samaria;
1095 11 | exhibited even a soul of a thoroughly human condition, not making
1096 24 | on a solitary mountain to three companions, clothed with
1097 21 | raise up to sit upon his throne." If "of David's loins,"
1098 | throughout
1099 7 | temptation might have been thwarted thus: it might have happened
1100 20 | was in the womb, He was tied to it, as to His origin,
1101 3 | desired to be let loose, so tightly was he held. Has it, then,
1102 24 | magnanimous, but the other as timid; lastly, one as suffering
1103 7 | and since He shows their title to this favour even because
1104 5 | laid in a manger, or in a tomb? Talk of "wisdom!" You will
1105 6 | the apostle will reply in tones like those in which he even
1106 20 | the body from which it is torn, as if in consequence of
1107 22 | In what way so ever you torture the statement, He is either
1108 9 | Would any man have dared to touch even with his little finger,
1109 20 | that Matthew also, when tracing down the Lord's descent
1110 4 | rejection of error, the whole training in righteousness, chastity,
1111 21 | mother (assisting in the transaction), why should not the novelty
1112 20 | mamilla, and in the act of transference convert the secretion into
1113 6 | corporeal; and yet they could be transfigured into human shape, and for
1114 20 | possibly have had blood for transformation into milk, unless it possessed
1115 2 | inasmuch as it had been transmitted by those whose duty it was
1116 4 | shame itself of a woman in travail which, however, ought rather
1117 9 | hair as grass, and the very treasures of marrow within our bones
1118 8 | work. This indeed we have treated of in a passage by itself;
1119 8 | out of it. And "a corrupt tree must needs bring forth evil
1120 9 | He wept over Lazarus; He trembles at death (for "the flesh,"
1121 7 | what was without; being tried by the untrue announcement
1122 18 | SECOND PERSON OF THE BLESSED TRINITY. HE IS HERE CALLED, AS OFTEN
1123 15 | enemies, so as to be able to triumph over them in company with
1124 5 | from heaven, but from some troop of mountebanks, not as God
1125 4 | enlarges from day to day,heavy, troublesome, restless even in sleep,
1126 5 | blood, clothed without the tunic of skin, hungry without
1127 4 | redeemed. And are you for turning these conditions into occasions
1128 23 | no equivocation, nothing twisted into a double sense. Light
1129 17 | other instances, in ancient type, the Lord being born as
1130 20 | as to His origin, by the umbilical cord, which communicated
1131 13 | THE SOUL BOTH FULLY AND UN-CONFUSEDLY CONTAINED IN IT.~The soul
1132 13 | flesh expressed in simple un-figurative terms; that is to say, the
1133 3 | either impossible for God, or unbecoming to Him. With God, however,
1134 7 | well as of the Jews in the unbelieving brethren. In their person
1135 5 | respect born, in the other unborn; l in one respect fleshly
1136 4 | itself, declaim against the uncleanness of the generative elements
1137 4 | mother's womb amidst all its uncleannesses, even that man who was brought
1138 7 | father than a mother, and uncles more likely than brothers.
1139 8 | the truth of the entire uncorrupted gospel, ought to have been
1140 14 | the servants because He undertook the office of a servant.
1141 22 | recent progenitor! For, unfolding the promised blessing upon
1142 13 | become flesh, the soul is a uniform solid body; it is also a
1143 13 | the world," the number is unimpaired of two substances distinct
1144 20 | of the severance of the union and growth which the constituent
1145 13 | kind, thus excluding the unique species of the flesh-comprised
1146 5 | possibly have undergone the unreal mockeries of an imaginary
1147 17 | out of a flesh which was unstained as yet by any human generation.
1148 7 | temptation about His birth unsuitable, for it might have been
1149 7 | without; being tried by the untrue announcement of the presence
1150 9 | Christ, if it had been of an unusual nature;, or to smear His
1151 22 | son of David; but whatever unworthiness there be in this testimony,
1152 20 | of greater emphasis, he uses the word "made" rather than
1153 20 | s breasts, whether they usually flow at any other time than
1154 7 | also is wont to do to the utmost that which He enjoins on
1155 5 | V. CHRIST TRULY LIVED AND
1156 11 | a man covers him with a veil or a mask. This, however,
1157 3 | have even borne about so veritable a body, that Abraham even
1158 1intro| that is in question. Its verity and quality are the points
1159 22 | EVEN IN ITS VERY FIRST VERSE, TESTIFIES TO CHRIST'S TRUE
1160 6 | VI. THE DOCTRINE OF APELLES
1161 15 | happen) to ourselves? Such views are not improper for heathens
1162 7 | VII. EXPLANATION OF THE LORD'
1163 8 | VIII. APELLES AND HIS FOLLOWERS,
1164 4 | THE INCARNATION OF HIS SON VINDICATED. MARCION'S DISPARAGEMENT
1165 14 | Michael. For the Lord of the Vineyard sends even His Son to the
1166 20 | regeneration might have virginal purity, spiritually cleansed
1167 7 | stage play, or had laid a wager on a foot race or a chariot
1168 11 | believe that He who willed to walk the earth as a man exhibited
1169 4 | fleshly nature too, who wallowed in all the before-mentioned
1170 3 | come to an end from thus wanting permanence, whilst they
1171 19 | which, as all know, is the warm blood as convected by ebullition
1172 15 | of all their contentious warmth and artifice. For, as I
1173 9 | two elements of earth and water, from the former by its
1174 1intro| armoury, whence they get their weapons of destruction. Let us examine
1175 23 | abstinence) from a husband went, and "yet not a virgin,"
1176 9 | the woman of Samaria; He wept over Lazarus; He trembles
1177 | whenever
1178 | Whereas
1179 14 | it) as a powerful helper wherewithal to execute the salvation
1180 5 | am not ashamed my Lord. "Whosoever," says He, "shall be ashamed
1181 4 | the body of a beast either wild or tame, your censure (I
1182 7 | reality of Christ's flesh, wilfully deny that God Himself was
1183 9 | courses of the veins as winding rivulets, and the down (
1184 6 | Pontus, compelled to be wiser than their teacher, concede
1185 11 | which it is. No one who wishes to exhibit a man covers
1186 1intro| APELLES, AND VALENTINUS, WISHING TO IMPUGN THE DOCTRINE OF
1187 4 | show us your man; or else withdraw the flesh, and then present
1188 3 | case of the angels. Their withdrawal was effected in the same
1189 24 | sheath only, Christ being withdrawn from it; as well as those
1190 24 | heretics, especially in his "Woe to them that call evil good,
1191 20 | tell us, from the nature of women's breasts, whether they
1192 9 | all things else about Him wonderful, as when they said, "Whence
1193 7 | from Him. Christ also is wont to do to the utmost that
1194 9 | wisdom and these mighty works?" Thus spake even they who
1195 15 | to be, "not a man, but a worm;" who also had "no form
1196 4 | conversion of men to the worship of the true God, the rejection
1197 7 | a preferable sense and a worthier brotherhood, with the repudiation
1198 3 | hands; an angel, moreover, wrestled with a man so strenuously
1199 15 | some writer of Valentinus' wretched faction, they refuse at
1200 15 | as I have read in some writer of Valentinus' wretched
1201 15 | it is of Him that Isaiah writes: "A man of suffering, and
1202 8 | The world, then, must be a wrong thing, according to the
1203 10 | X. ANOTHER CLASS OF HERETICS
1204 11 | XI. THE OPPOSITE EXTRAVAGANCE
1205 12 | XII. THE TRUE FUNCTIONS OF THE
1206 13 | XIII. CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE.
1207 14 | XIV. CHRIST TOOK NOT ON HIM
1208 19 | XIX. CHRIST, AS TO HIS DIVINE
1209 15 | XV. THE VALENTINIAN FIGMENT
1210 16 | XVI. CHRIST'S FLESH IN NATURE,
1211 17 | XVII. THE SIMILARITY OF CIRCUMSTANCES
1212 18 | XVIII. THE MYSTERY OF THE ASSUMPTION
1213 20 | XX. CHRIST BORN OF A VIRGIN,
1214 21 | XXI. THE WORD OF GOD DID NOT
1215 22 | XXII. HOLY SCRIPTURE IN THE NEW
1216 23 | XXIII. SIMEON'S "SIGN THAT SHOULD
1217 24 | XXIV. DIVINE STRICTURES ON VARIOUS
1218 25conc| XXV. CONCLUSION.THIS TREATISE
1219 2 | brook delay, since sudden/y (without any prophetic announcement)
1220 | yours
1221 14 | Him, just as there was in Zechariah. Only it was never said