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1 9 | repeat), that He should abandon to everlasting destruction
2 49 | substances as the old man abandoned to mere flesh and blood
3 10 | You read whatever passage abases it; direct your eyes also
4 17 | nature it has simply the ability to think, to will, to desire,
5 49 | moral conduct the one to be abjured, and the other to be pursued
6 41 | whose fabric an eternal abode is promised in heaven, inasmuch
7 30 | most miserable and degraded abodes of captivity, and to breathe
8 52 | which it is changed not by abolition, but by amplification. And
9 47 | grace shall there much more abound, where sin once abounded."
10 43 | because a man who goes abroad returns after a while to
11 8 | the soul, fastings, and abstinences, and the humiliations which
12 26 | Christ not only use, but even abuse, "worshipping the creature
13 11 | somewhere else, into whatever abyss it may have been engulphed.
14 20 | these events, instead of accepting their literal truth? The
15 19 | when a man is reanimated by access to the truth, and having
16 12 | night also revives it, too, accompanied with a retinue of its own.
17 63conc| in the flesh, which shall accompany her with the love and fidelity
18 15 | punishment, when it has been an accomplice in evil deeds: whereas human
19 60 | presistently they still accumulate their cavils against the
20 51 | view of stating this with accumulated stress, he deprived corruption
21 45 | the flesh." He brings no accusation against men's bodies, of
22 14 | as the resurrection shall achieve. The entire cause, then,
23 2 | to the Creator, they have achieved their first error in the
24 11 | truth, since He must be acknowledged to have produced in His
25 22 | there is a sprouting in the acknowledgment of all this mystery, yet
26 38 | been, if they only make acquaintance with the writings of John.
27 52 | body in order that what it acquires from God extrinsically may
28 49 | which that training aimed at acquiring? Not in substance, however,
29 46 | condemnation of sin is the acquittal of the flesh, just as its
30 17 | action. Therefore as it has acted in each several instance,
31 57 | unbelief. If, they say, it be actully the selfsame substance which
32 44 | meant which" has broken the adamantine gates of death and the brazen
33 36 | of the resurrection, they adapted an argument from it in support
34 46 | sense to a sound one, by adding, "But ye are not in the
35 24 | in the second epistle he addresses them with even greater earnestness: "
36 33 | certain things, and when addressing a particular class. But
37 48 | of the example which he adduced the Lord's resurrection.
38 53 | the apostle, by severally adducing this order in Adam and in
39 42 | order, you will be able to adjust what follows to the preceding
40 63conc| the seeds of truth with no admixture of heretical subtleties,
41 14 | division which we mainly adopt in our subject-matter. We
42 8 | marriage-bed, and the one only adoption of it, are fragrant offerings
43 31 | out from the grave, shall adore the Lord for this great
44 16 | ministration, it will be adorned by its drinking-master with
45 32 | also to ask of these very adroit transformers of bones and
46 8 | remarks have I wished to advance in defence of the flesh,
47 33 | meet the same sophistry as advanced by those who contend that
48 12 | profit, by an injury which is advantage, and by a loss which is
49 2 | deprived the discussion of the advantages of its logical order, and
50 19 | that whatever obscurity our adversaries throw over the subject under
51 46 | longer the flesh which is an adversary to salvation, but the working
52 58 | soul? where will you find adversities in the presence of God?
53 61 | become even His priest and advocate before men? Adam indeed
54 34 | soul which salvation will affect, since it is "safe"already
55 2 | more reasonable. And we affirm that controversy with heretics
56 20 | dispersion. Who would prefer affixing a metaphorical interpretation
57 40 | within were fears," which afflicted the soul. Although, therefore,
58 40 | apostle says: "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
59 13 | resurrection; if creation affords no sign precisely like it,
60 7 | That which is the means and agent of your enjoyment, must
61 15 | perfect, when it discovers the agents in every deed, and neither
62 42 | teeth continue undecayed for ages both of them the lasting
63 6 | origin, and to have happiness aggrandized by the change wrought in
64 18 | down in repose. For it is agitated in dreams, and disturbed:
65 8 | it is spent beneath its agonies, struggling to render its
66 3 | for although you are all agreed in imagining a God, yet
67 2 | order that there be a prior agreement on the essential point,
68 17 | Every uneducated person who agrees with our opinion will be
69 39 | In like manner, before Agrippa also, he says that he was
70 17 | suffering, in order that by its aid it may be as fully able
71 55 | rise again, and so lose airs being because it had already
72 19 | they fear that they might alarm their hearers if they at
73 39 | than to understand it in an alien sense. You find Paul confessing
74 49 | substance (of the flesh), alienating us from the kingdom of God.
75 42 | material and so to say the aliment of life, that is, the flesh;
76 19 | resurrection of the dead, alleging that even death itself must
77 30 | image of a resurrection is allegorically applied to their state,
78 27 | Scriptures robes mentioned as allegorizing the hope of the flesh. Thus
79 2 | sect which is more nearly allied to the Epicureans than to
80 6 | like manner, it was quite allowable for God that He should dear
81 35 | For although this is not allowed to the sparrows, yet "we
82 23 | spiritual sense, he equally allows that we shall further have
83 12 | power (to which we have just alluded). Day dies into night, and
84 48 | trouble in Asia, to which he alludes in his second epistle to
85 63conc| blasphemous fables. But yet Almighty God, in His most gracious
86 55 | persistently remain throughout the altered condition which shall be
87 11 | there is a difference, both alternatives support my position. For
88 44 | For we which live are alway delivered unto death for
89 21 | the appearance of being ambiguously announced and obscurely
90 47 | might be made void,'' by an amendment of life, not by a destruction
91 17 | action, it labours under some amount of incapacity; for in its
92 55 | indeed, so great a change amounted to utter cessation, and
93 52 | not by abolition, but by amplification. And to every seed God has
94 57 | lesser ones. Is not the amputation or the crushing of a limb
95 60 | grudge money merely for his amusement or show, thoroughly repairs
96 18 | power and might of God, the analogous cases in which these are
97 45 | members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the
98 22 | resurrection as is held by your Animalists (for I will not call them
99 53 | animated body, but rather an animating one, it cannot be called
100 53 | how will it ever produce animation? As therefore the flesh
101 20 | Herod, and the rulers in Annas and Caiaphas, were gathered
102 8 | the humiliations which are annexed to such duty it is the flesh
103 22 | our hope. He immediately annexes a parable of this in "the
104 39 | previously understood Paul to announce any other resurrection.
105 20 | prophets make all their announcements in figures of speech. Now,
106 39 | the resurrection, besides announcing it to the glory of Christ:
107 54 | life, too, as the great antagonist of death, will in the struggle
108 17 | longer enough that the soul apart from the flesh be requited
109 61 | to the mouth. There are apertures in the lower regions of
110 25 | XXV. ST. JOHN, IN THE APOCALYPSE, EQUALLY EXPLICIT IN ASSERTING
111 63conc| introducing, above all, apocryphal mysteries and blasphemous
112 61 | OF OUR VARIOUS MEMBERS. APOLOGY FOR THE NECESSITY WHICH
113 7 | supported by the entire apparatus of the senses the sight,
114 16 | dream of nothing but the apparitions of the souls which were
115 7 | whether the flesh acts as apparitor to the soul, or the soul
116 33 | prophetic Scriptures. I now appeal to the Gospels. But here
117 3 | often is at variance with appearances.~
118 23 | unrebukable, until the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ:
119 37 | called His flesh by the same appelation; because, too, the Word
120 4 | its original earth and the appellation of a corpse, and destined
121 60 | labours and enjoyments, as appendages to the same corporeal frame;
122 1 | perception still retain an appetite. But (let the crowd deride):
123 52 | AGAIN, GARNISHED WITH THE APPLIANCES OF ETERNAL LIFE.~Let us
124 18 | to what substance it is applicable. Were we to allow, under
125 28 | To the flesh, therefore, applies everything which is declared
126 20 | and mocked Him;" "He was appraised by the traitor in thirty
127 21 | uncertain. There is no real apprehension when the peril is only doubtful.
128 29 | also a movement, and bones approached bones. And I saw, and behold
129 1 | a way which most nearly approaches (to our own doctrine)? that
130 22 | hand, which is said to be approaching up to that time, raising
131 9 | whose mortifications He approves; whose sufferings for Himself
132 13 | for all, while birds in Arabia are sure of a resurrection?~
133 16 | the soul). For they would argue that servants and companions
134 5 | to the flesh also; if not arising out of any community in
135 2 | nature, which he follows Aristotle in reducing to dissolution,
136 3 | when the apostle gives you armour of your own? It would be
137 22 | Who is it then, that has aroused the Lord, now at God's right
138 42 | by being covered over and arrayed in the vesture of immortality?
139 48 | may assist our judgment in arriving at its meaning. The apostle,
140 33 | as in the parable of the arrogant judge and the importunate
141 61 | tongue, and guarding your articulate speech from failure and
142 7 | of a fleshly organ. The arts come through the flesh;
143 22 | as the apostles saw Him ascend, according to the appointment
144 51 | descend in like manner as He ascended into heaven" the same both
145 16 | soul. So, again, when he is ascribing certain praiseworthy actions
146 47 | things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things
147 3 | that "the heart of man is ashes," according to the estimate
148 48 | baptized for the dead,'' he asks, unless the bodies rise
149 15 | includes in His censures this aspect of the flesh, (man's heart),
150 58 | sighing, and death itself, assail us from the afflictions
151 48 | that we may in our last assault overthrow it, after we have
152 22 | every crowd in our popular assemblies is still with shouts consigning "
153 10 | yet in these and similar assertions which he makes, it is not
154 57 | forth a distinction. For, by assigning immortality to the repeating
155 48 | suggested this passage may assist our judgment in arriving
156 7 | turns out to be also its associate and co-heir. And if all
157 2 | not partake, confidently assuming that it furnishes the strongest
158 26 | by the sweetness of His assurance, truly Judaean by reason
159 42 | immortality," this will assuredly be that house from heaven,
160 61 | fruit of the tree; before he ate, he prophesied. Then, again,
161 39 | whole verity. Nor had the Athenians previously understood Paul
162 8 | not to say by still more atrocious devices of torment. Most
163 16 | perpetrated with it the atrocities of a brigand? Well, now,
164 58 | bosom of Christ? where, attacks of the devil in the face
165 52 | nor in respect of their attainment of a resurrection. Then
166 3 | conscience of a nation, when it attests the God of gods. I may,
167 52 | is safe which receives augmentation. The truth is, it is sown
168 18 | sense suggested by such authoritative considerations, and not
169 12 | as do the spring-tide and autumn, with their resources, their
170 48 | the questions which are auxiliary to it. However, they must
171 6 | other material had been available for forming man, it would
172 25 | they earnestly pray to be avenged and judged: (taught, I say,
173 32 | the full exaction of an avenging judgment. Where, then, is
174 56 | THE LAST JUDGMENT, AND ITS AWARDS, ONLY POSSIBLE ON THE IDENTITY
175 59 | as "the small dust of the balance," and as "less than nothing,
176 6 | To what purpose is it to bandy about the name earth, as
177 16 | s victims, who would not banish it entirely from his house,
178 1 | and with the daintiest banquets which the seasons can produce,
179 48 | which is sanctified by the baptismal bath: its sanctification
180 52 | truth is, it is sown the barest grain, without a husk to
181 52 | dissolved in the ground, barley does not spring up. Still
182 44 | of death and the brazen bars of the lower world," a life
183 2 | contending with Marcion and Basilides that it possessed no reality;
184 5 | views; and as the first battering-ram which is directed against
185 48 | place it in the front of the battle, we have intentionally reserved
186 52 | without the protection of a bearded top, without the glory of
187 25 | deserved doom, and that the beast Antichrist with his false
188 8 | pallet and mangled in its bed of straw; when at length
189 16 | house, much more from his bed-room, or from his pillow, from
190 9 | casualties as these had never befallen the flesh, the bounty, the
191 32 | BE RAISED AGAIN. WHATEVER BEFALLS THEM GOD WILL RESTORE THEM
192 55 | being because it had already begun its non-existence! Now,
193 47 | structure, but as moral behaviour. Besides, if we do not understand
194 22 | the lions?" Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven
195 | behind
196 35 | and soul" are destroyed in bell, a distinction is obviously
197 2 | may not be accounted as belonging to the Creator, they have
198 | below
199 48 | baptism (in question) would be beneficial to the flesh of another
200 34 | ought in all fairness to benefit the flesh also, as being
201 1 | expensive way according to their bequest, and with the daintiest
202 24 | greater earnestness: "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the coming
203 47 | be "the bodies" which he "beseeches" the Romans to "present"
204 57 | prior to injury. As life is bestowed by God, so is it restored
205 19 | minds they think this: Woe betide the simpleton who during
206 22 | no one has as yet had to bewail the downfall of Babylon.
207 45 | indeed the flesh which he bids us to put off, but the works
208 38 | dead persons from their biers and their graves? To what
209 54 | ourselves as swallowing bile, or swallowing grief, meaning
210 13 | and death. I refer to the bird which is peculiar to the
211 13 | death; its dying day is its birthday, for on it it departs and
212 45 | day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
213 12 | substance is tarnished with blackness; all things become sordid,
214 16 | for lying down with the blade which shed their own blood?
215 16 | suitable to it, if free from blame; nor, (on the other hand),
216 47 | and spirit be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord."
217 23 | the mark for the prize of blamelessness, whereby I may attain it;"
218 26 | even irreligious men and blasphemers; on a general condition
219 63conc| apocryphal mysteries and blasphemous fables. But yet Almighty
220 45 | a tongue to refrain from blasphemy, and a heart to avoid all
221 7 | power, by tempering the blast of his fire, to modify his
222 57 | there need be no fear of blemished or defective bodies. Integrity,
223 51 | have it, and as they say, blindfold, and so indiscriminately,
224 45 | EXPLAINED.~But in their blindness they again impale themselves
225 11 | had become dilapidated and blocked up, and in every possible
226 55 | becomes like a dead one, bloodless, colourless, and stiff with
227 23 | converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing
228 20 | scourges, and His cheeks to blows, not turning His face even
229 61 | resurrection, and making us blush over their cavils; not reflecting
230 31 | calves let loose from their bonds, and ye shall tread down
231 42 | absolutely decayed, for their bony frames are still extant.
232 25 | be determined out of the books. Since, then, the Scriptures
233 34 | at any rate be a fitting boon to us, who are the more
234 49 | God," even because they bore not the image of the heavenly,
235 58 | perfect resurrection? For, to borrow the apostle's phrase, these
236 44 | putting new wine into old bottles. When also he adds, "Always
237 25 | casting of the devil into the bottomless pit for a while, the blessed
238 26 | and truffles among earth's bounties, since the Lord declares
239 16 | the character of the Most Bountiful to bestow even gratuitously
240 60 | without her keel, or her bow, or her stern, and without
241 15 | has its sanctuary in the brain, or in the interval between
242 60 | passage of the throat, and the branch-way of the stomach, and the
243 21 | Divine Being Himself be branded as inconstant. Then arises
244 7 | the Red Sea in lead, or brass, or iron, or even in silver,
245 44 | adamantine gates of death and the brazen bars of the lower world,"
246 57 | but as the repairer of its breaches. And so the apostle says: "
247 27 | says: "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and
248 36 | strength to our doctrine in breaking down the subtle cavil of
249 60 | and the fountains of the breast, when concubinage, and pregnancy,
250 22 | by tribe, smitten their breasts, looking on Him whom they
251 7 | more glorious still by His breathing upon it, by virtue of which
252 35 | but cement and stones and bricks form the body of a wall.
253 27 | raiment," that is, in the bright beauty of the unwedded flesh.
254 45 | works of the flesh." He brings no accusation against men'
255 31 | turn off their minds from brooding over their present affairs.
256 36 | woman who had married seven brothers, so that it was a doubtful
257 52 | enriched with a copious crop, built up in a compact fabric,
258 4 | in extent? Is not (their burden) from the beginning and
259 42 | because he says that we are burdened whilst in this tabernacle,
260 35 | soul," that is to say, all bureau powers. Here, then, we have
261 27 | corpses are set aside for burial in mausoleums and sepulchres,
262 1 | to those it has already burnt? But the wise, too, join
263 19 | with new life by God, has burst forth from the sepulchre
264 27 | deposited previous to the bursting out of the anger. Now out
265 18 | Give me the possession of a burying place with you, that I may
266 27 | extirpation of Antichrist shall be busily transacted the great process
267 18 | accordingly it derives its name, cadaver, from cadendo. The soul,
268 18 | its name, cadaver, from cadendo. The soul, however, has
269 61 | and ask whether even a cage of teeth be not an honour
270 20 | the rulers in Annas and Caiaphas, were gathered together
271 45 | simultaneous birth, without any calcuable difference in time; so that
272 31 | your sepulchres, as young calves let loose from their bonds,
273 58 | this very cause already candidates for everlasting life; to
274 38 | know full well what His capability has ever been, if they only
275 39 | the shelter of the chief captain, among the Sadducees and
276 20 | chastisements and pardons, its captivities, restorations, and at last
277 40 | until death, in harassing cares and tribulations as well
278 32 | fishes and other animals and carnivorous birds be raised again, in
279 10 | in the same passage Paul "carries about in his body the marks
280 2 | flesh, before they could carry their point on the oneness
281 17 | to dispose: for fully, carrying out the purpose, it looks
282 20 | and Edom, and the navy of Carthage; also when they foretell
283 10 | without tending also to the castigation of the soul, which compels
284 25 | God; and that, after the casting of the devil into the bottomless
285 24 | QUOTED FROM ST. PAUL, WHICH CATEGORICALLY ASSERT THE RESURRECTION
286 36 | SADDUCEES, AND AFFIRMATION OF CATHOLIC DOCTRINE.~Let us now see
287 52 | Man is like the senseless cattle"), "another flesh of birds" (
288 60 | will then be the use of the cavity of our mouth, and its rows
289 12 | stupid; everywhere business ceases, and occupations rest. And
290 27 | kept in these closets or cellars salted and reserved for
291 35 | admit that anything but cement and stones and bricks form
292 14 | consider whether the divine censure superintends a judicial
293 15 | thoughts, includes in His censures this aspect of the flesh, (
294 21 | that, in the conflict of certainties and uncertainties, of explicitness
295 2 | was concealed: to impart certainty to doubtful points; to accomplish
296 61 | present life there may be cessations of their office for our
297 30 | SUPPOSES THAT EZEKIEL IN HIS CH. XXXI. PROPHESIED BEFORE
298 47 | immortality, may hear the challenge pronounced against it: "
299 9 | priestess of His religion, the champion of His testimony, the sister
300 2 | god after destroying and changing the very ground of our hopes.
301 16 | its drinking-master with chaplets, or be honoured with a handful
302 48 | SUNDRY PASSAGES IN THE GREAT CHAPTER OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE
303 30 | passage. It is. however, more characteristic of a religious spirit to
304 23 | unto which day and time he charges Timothy himself "to keep
305 58 | more corruption, it being chased away by incorruption, even
306 20 | they foretell Israel's own chastisements and pardons, its captivities,
307 16 | discretion, and is not a mere chattel. And although the apostle
308 61 | are not unaccustomed to check our longings!~
309 20 | back to scourges, and His cheeks to blows, not turning His
310 61 | concubinage, because no more child-bearing; no more eating and drinking,
311 60 | repairs his ship, and then chooses that she should make no
312 30 | THE BODIES OF THE DEAD. A CHRONOLOGICAL ERROR OF OUR AUTHOR, WHO
313 29 | me round about them in a circuit: and, behold, there were
314 15 | flesh, (man's heart), the citadel of the soul: "Why think
315 47 | Philippians, "we have our citizenship, from whence also we look
316 19 | a great many also, who, claiming to hold a resurrection after
317 34 | princes of this world always claims for itself the merit of
318 45 | and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put
319 57 | when he propounds the two clauses, that "this corruptible
320 61 | regarded as outlets for the cleanly discharge of natural fluids?
321 8 | order that the soul may be cleansed; the flesh is anointed,
322 52 | last be accounted its own. Cleave firmly then to the example,
323 27 | where he has no thought of cloaks or stuff gowns, but means
324 18 | faithful, a man who enjoyed close intercourse with God. For
325 8 | PRIVILEGES OF OUR RELIGION IN CLOSEST CONNECTION WITH OUR FLESH.
326 12 | instruction from heaven to clothe the trees which had been
327 7 | be also its associate and co-heir. And if all this in temporal
328 7 | affirmed the skin to be a coat or tunic. Now this being
329 32 | quite as effectually as a coffin, or a tomb, or the gradual
330 14 | JUDGMENT OF MAN, IT WILL TAKE COGNISANCE OF THE WORKS OF THE BODY
331 40 | designation they cannot but be coherent natures. As for the inward
332 61 | receptacles where human seed may collect; but are they not designed
333 2 | the body of that work were collected whatever points we elsewhere
334 23 | teaches, in his Epistle to the Colossians, that we were once dead,
335 55 | like a dead one, bloodless, colourless, and stiff with cold; but
336 15 | intentions. They may deny all combination in acts, but they cannot
337 25 | spiritual resurrection a the commencement of a life of faith, who
338 3 | they)(say they); and, "I commend you to God." But when they
339 3 | their ground. For that which commends men's common sense is its
340 53 | RESURRECTION OF LAZARUS COMMENTED ON. CHRIST'S RESURRECTION,
341 7 | or rather inserted and commingled, it with the flesh? Yes;
342 17 | the first to induce to the commission of sin; but still it is
343 17 | competency of its own to commit, it at once pays the penalty
344 5 | their opinions after these common-sense views, and as the falterers
345 18 | Nay it is the soul which communicates its ruin to the body when
346 45 | needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,
347 52 | copious crop, built up in a compact fabric, constructed in a
348 18 | body, nor does it with its companion even lie down in repose.
349 16 | argue that servants and companions possess a discretion in
350 16 | so regarded, to admit its companionship (to the soul). For they
351 34 | God have the character of comparative weakness, since He does
352 6 | coming from a source which is comparatively faded and obscure. In like
353 48 | substance as the death, by comparing the authors themselves under
354 38 | doing what comes within the compass of their own thoughts; and
355 16 | servant, lest they should be compelled, if it were so regarded,
356 17 | may through the flesh also compensate for its deeds, inasmuch
357 45 | had to wait to be itself completed, it made the other really
358 8 | Christ so vast a debt, and so completely, that the only obligation
359 60 | of a ship requires such completeness irrespective of service?
360 25 | who acknowledge the full completion thereof at the end of the
361 54 | swallowing grief, meaning that we conceal and hide it, and keep it
362 2 | persons, indeed, refuse to concede to the substance of the
363 57 | in the greatness of your conceit thus disdain to accept from
364 2 | heretics, in whatever way they conceive of it, certainly refrain
365 25 | stages of the last times, and concentrate the harvest of the Christian
366 46 | If, however, it has no conception of anything without the
367 40 | substantial parts, but only conceptions of the soul. But when he
368 21 | eternal, and of universal concern to the human race, should
369 2 | due method requires that conclusions should always be drawn from
370 52 | resurrection. Then at last, having conclusively shown by his examples that
371 46 | such a way as to appear to condemn the flesh; but no one can
372 2 | should in most cases be conducted in this way. For due method
373 15 | soul alone is so far from conducting (the affairs of) life, that
374 14 | to be habitually able to confer this restoration on a thing
375 4 | must test them in their conferences, whether they be heathens
376 3 | deny this doctrine which is confessed by Christians; denying it,
377 39 | alien sense. You find Paul confessing his faith before the chief
378 25 | else, even allowing that a confession of the mystery (of divine
379 2 | Christ did not partake, confidently assuming that it furnishes
380 2 | there is even within the confines of God's Church a sect which
381 26 | lose heavenly blessings, by confining their hopes to earthly ones,
382 39 | to-explain the Old Testament and confirm the New, and above all,
383 50 | also); and there is even a confirmation of the general resurrection
384 44 | EXPLAINED IN A SENTENCE CONFIRMATORY OF OUR DOCTRINE.~Now, if
385 39 | appear to impair, he really confirmed in the opinion of the Pharisees,
386 35 | to it! But Christ, whilst confirming us in the selfsame hope,
387 14 | flesh as necessary and as conformable in every way to reason;
388 57 | foolish things of the world to confound the wise?" Let me ask you,
389 43 | passage? Do you take it to be confusedly constructed, with a transposition
390 55 | not admit of mixture and confusion; in their operations, too,
391 54 | just as much as they are by connected sentences. Thus, because
392 49 | because the conjunction "for" connects what follows with the preceding
393 58 | RESTORED BODIES WILL FLOW THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF UNDISTURBED JOY AND PEACE.~"
394 16 | secure its own praise by consecration. It is quite possible, then,
395 22 | all the prophets with one consent), that "there should be
396 34 | allow to perish; nay, no considerable portion nay, not the least
397 7 | equal worth; whilst God must consign to some vilest sheath the
398 22 | assemblies is still with shouts consigning "the Christians to the lions?"
399 16 | becomes useful from without, consisting as it does of material perfectly
400 31 | fairly enough seem to have consoled their figurative despair
401 57 | have passed away with any conspicuous mark, will return again
402 37 | impressing on (His hearers) constantly under the figure of necessary
403 12 | the distant groups of the constellations are again brought back to
404 17 | were alone sufficient to constitute absolute desert without
405 46 | opposition to the death which is constituted in the flesh, he unquestionably
406 59 | are yours: " and he here constitutes us heirs even of the future
407 37 | pass from death unto life." Constituting, therefore, His word as
408 7 | ADDITION OF THE SOUL IN MAN'S CONSTITUTION IT BECAME THE CHIEF WORK
409 46 | the flesh is this also) be constrained to acknowledge a restoration
410 49 | man, he cannot use such a construction here. Since, however he
411 52 | this language is not to be construed figuratively, it was absurd
412 32 | time during three days for consuming and digesting Jonah's flesh,
413 42 | extremely fit that all shall be consummated and brought about by the
414 40 | process from day to day, but a consummation once for all complete. You
415 61 | received your teeth for the consumption of your meal: why not rather
416 54 | hidden and concealed, and contained within it, not as consumed,
417 23 | Him). It is therefore the contemplation of our blessed hope even
418 45 | our Treatise an the Saul. Contemporaneous in the womb, they are also
419 31 | seed. In a word, if it is contended that the figure of the rising
420 10 | Well, but Isaiah was not content to say only this; but he
421 41 | inasmuch as the following context, having a manifest reference
422 59 | flesh am I striving after continence. If there be any one who
423 11 | than to have maintained a continuance. On this principle, you
424 49 | XLIX. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. WHAT DOES THE APOSTLE EXCLUDE
425 58 | And sorrow and sighing," continues he, "shall flee away." The
426 44 | manifested, which is eternal, continuous, incorruptible, and already
427 63conc| Christ Jesus she has in the contract of His blood received His
428 41 | heaven." Yet, when he thus contrasted the recompense of the reward,
429 48 | to it. However, they must contrive to recall to their mind
430 2 | reasonable. And we affirm that controversy with heretics should in
431 58 | persons the exact point of convenience and propriety checked the
432 55 | a transfiguration and a conversion amounts to the annihilation
433 55 | opinion. So likewise changes, conversions and reformations will necessarily
434 23 | Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted
435 11 | nature any analogies to convince us of His power in this
436 48 | epistle to the same church of Corinth: "For we would not, brethren,
437 45 | paint of time. It is more correct (to say), that we are either
438 12 | ANALOGIES IN NATURE WHICH CORROBORATE THE RESURRECTION OF THE
439 53 | display to our view its corruptibility and dishonour (as well as)
440 63conc| existence even in Christ corrupting the very Word of God Himself,
441 57 | ascribe it to men at the cost of half their nature? What
442 7 | your finest wines and most costly unguents the most fitting
443 23 | Brethren," (he adds), "I count not myself to have apprehended:
444 63conc| bold front without some countenance from the Scriptures, it
445 40 | of glory" which will be a counterpoise for the labours in the endurance
446 51 | God, and indeed from the court of heaven itself, all flesh
447 52 | grain, without a husk to cover it, without a spike even
448 7 | that is, with the cutaneous covering which was placed over it.
449 63conc| other doctrine: no feverish craving after subtle questions will
450 45 | that intervened between the creative hand of God and His afflatus?
451 36 | could for impairing the credibility of the resurrection, they
452 7 | flesh. It is, However, more credible that the soul has service
453 50 | interpretations of this sort, which criminate the works of the flesh and
454 52 | enriched with a copious crop, built up in a compact fabric,
455 4 | maws of beasts, and the crops of birds and the stomachs
456 8 | pines in prisons under the cruellest privation of light, in banishment
457 1 | which mocks its victims with cruelty? Is it sacrifice or insult (
458 30 | on the condition of the crumbling grave, despaired of a resurrection;
459 57 | not the amputation or the crushing of a limb the death of that
460 52 | beautiful order, fortified by cultivation, and clothed around on every
461 47 | healing what is stricken, curing what is faint, redeeming
462 26 | done any good or evil? "Cursed," no doubt, it was, for
463 2 | causes. For as it is my custom to touch some questions
464 55 | means, houses, laws and customs and still lose nothing of
465 42 | be decayed unless it be cut off, abolished, and withdrawn
466 7 | skins," that is, with the cutaneous covering which was placed
467 16 | lascivious woman, or of Cybele's priest, or of a gladiator,
468 48 | through the flesh. "I die daily," (says he); that is, undoubtedly,
469 1 | their bequest, and with the daintiest banquets which the seasons
470 20 | figuratively to take the power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria,
471 37 | unto the resurrection of damnation," none will after such words
472 22 | even as Joel had done, and Daniel, and all the prophets with
473 16 | our own mind we are apt to dash to pieces, and then to increase
474 45 | even if the soul was a good deal prior to the flesh, by the
475 14 | whilst on the one hand He deals vengeance, land on the other
476 6 | allowable for God that He should dear the gold of our flesh from
477 63conc| whom you should love so dearly; none more like a brother
478 8 | Master Christ so vast a debt, and so completely, that
479 46 | Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live
480 24 | lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
481 24 | Lord is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means. For that
482 38 | impossible for God to practise deception (weak as He only could be
483 62 | discussion, however, our Lord's declaration puts an effectual end: "
484 52 | the substance which God's decree demolished, "Earth thou
485 53 | nothing of which was ever decreed against it by God: let them
486 14 | approach His very edicts and decrees, since this is the division
487 57 | their health, or in the long decrepitude of the grave? For when he
488 48 | resurrection, for the purpose of deducing therefrom the rule of our
489 1 | renewal to be in a body, (deeming it) more tolerable to change
490 58 | swallowed by the monster of the deep, in whose belly whole ships
491 2 | flesh, they will at once be defeated also on the resurrection
492 57 | no fear of blemished or defective bodies. Integrity, whether
493 5 | necessarily so manage our defences, as to guard, first of all,
494 26 | it is open to us also to defend the bodily character of
495 2 | oneness of the Godhead will be defended along with the maintenance
496 2 | complete detail, and the deferred points be taken up on their
497 27 | are they which have not defiled their clothes with women,"
498 3 | trustworthy, inasmuch as its definitive statements are naked and
499 42 | circumstance it is that we definitively declare that the flesh will
500 12 | Wondrous method! from a defrauder to be a preserver, in order