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1501 36 | affirmed this verity in the precise sense in which they were
1502 22 | the flower, which is the precursor of the fruit." "So likewise
1503 5 | testifies; nor must it be predetermined that the world will be restored,
1504 52 | in glory only. For again, predicating the resurrection of the
1505 30 | a figurative, not a true prediction of the resurrection, for (
1506 33 | God; or else cleared by a preface from the writer of the Gospel,
1507 18 | it has been my object by prefatory remarks to lay a foundation
1508 27 | the expression closets, in preference to some other receptacle,
1509 40 | being light and temporary; preferring those eternal recompenses
1510 40 | man, indeed, the apostle prefers its being regarded as the
1511 32 | only that he wanted to prefigure even those beasts (which
1512 30 | recovery of the Jewish state is prefigured by the reincorporation and
1513 60 | breast, when concubinage, and pregnancy, and infant nurture shall
1514 24 | excluded while they are with premature haste seizing that which
1515 49 | Then, after having thus premised the difference in that worth
1516 2 | from the most important premises, in order that there be
1517 2 | Sadducees that we have now to prepare ourselves, but still partakers
1518 10 | why shall not its high prerogatives rather avail to bring it
1519 28 | does not this apply as a presage to all mankind? inasmuch
1520 57 | violent injury. Greater cases prescribe rules for lesser ones. Is
1521 19 | and definite rules will be prescribed. For some, when they have
1522 57 | Integrity, whether the result of preservation or restoration, will be
1523 60 | REPAIRED SHIP.~But behold how presistently they still accumulate their
1524 23 | things which are before, I press toward the mark for the
1525 2 | had to reserve from the pressure of incidental causes. For
1526 18 | simply because so many strong presumptions in its favour had been already
1527 25 | and thus what the heretics pretend about a resurrection here
1528 30 | Jewish affairs, which is pretended to be the meaning of this
1529 35 | not raised again at all. A pretty paradox, to be sure, that
1530 9 | His own liberality, the priestess of His religion, the champion
1531 39 | his faith before the chief priests, under the shelter of the
1532 51 | God the last Adam, yet the primary Word flesh and blood, yet
1533 2 | the flesh be denied, that prime article of the faith is
1534 26 | figurative. For consider that primeval sentence which God spake
1535 52 | own in the sense of its primitive body in order that what
1536 45 | mere order, yet has the priority in its effect. Much more
1537 11 | mouth of the prophetess Prisca: "They are carnal, and yet
1538 8 | all men; when it pines in prisons under the cruellest privation
1539 8 | prisons under the cruellest privation of light, in banishment
1540 8 | THE GREATEST HONOUR. THE PRIVILEGES OF OUR RELIGION IN CLOSEST
1541 23 | toward the mark for the prize of blamelessness, whereby
1542 61 | but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
1543 52 | with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once to illustrate the
1544 14 | the same time makes both processes contribute proofs of His
1545 22 | Israel He then goes on to proclaim, against this world and
1546 61 | a structure which cannot procreate! Now, if even here on earth
1547 8 | not a soul that can at all procure salvation, except it believe
1548 53 | become that thing which it produces. It is indeed when the soul
1549 10 | also forbids our body to be profaned, as being "the temple of
1550 47 | a holy one, if they are profanely soiled? How acceptable to
1551 49 | pernicious works that he professes to warn them beforehand,
1552 50 | something else which can be profitable thereunto, that is, the
1553 37 | yet be capable of being profited by something else. The spirit "
1554 5 | production, He would have prohibited it, when He knew it was
1555 18 | EXPLAINED AS INDICATING THE PROMINENT PLACE OF THE FLESH IN THE
1556 18 | the Dead." These words are prompt, decisive, clear. I mean
1557 3 | THE HERETICS PERVERSELY PRONE TO FOLLOW THEM.~One may
1558 3 | common nature, when they pronounce God to be a judge. "God
1559 7 | was in the woman as the propagation of his own substance ("This
1560 11 | persons by the mouth of the prophetess Prisca: "They are carnal,
1561 21 | RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. IN PROPORTION TO THE IMPORTANCE OF ETERNAL
1562 17 | each several instance, so proportionably does it suffer in Hades,
1563 33 | the special proof of this proposition, that the bodily character
1564 37 | He has rather put the two propositions in a way which favours our
1565 21 | announced and obscurely propounded, inasmuch as the hope of
1566 57 | of the grave? For when he propounds the two clauses, that "this
1567 16 | participate in the merits of their proprietors and employers. Thus much
1568 58 | point of convenience and propriety checked the rank growth
1569 10 | AS TO ITS NATURE AND ITS PROSPECTS.~You hold to the scriptures
1570 53 | resurrection, the flesh lay prostrate in weakness, the flesh was
1571 18 | unless it has first been prostrated. It is only the man who
1572 7 | again, that you should provide for your finest wines and
1573 12 | whose use they have been provided-but not for man except for his
1574 44 | life abounded, the most provident wisdom of the apostle inserts
1575 55 | SUBJECT.~Now although, in proving that the flesh shall rise
1576 46 | the soul by which sin is provoked has its temporary lodging
1577 13 | VERSE IN THE NINETY-SECOND PSALM, THE PHOENIX IS MADE A SYMBOL
1578 6 | is touched by them, and pulled, and drawn out, and moulded
1579 31 | faith which the people were pulling down. But even if it were
1580 14 | succouring the good and punishing the evil, He displays His
1581 20 | words can only be taken in a pure and simple signification,
1582 25 | for asserting only this purely spiritual resurrection.
1583 51 | Word flesh and blood, yet purer than ours who "shall descend
1584 6 | living God, the true God, purge away by His own operation
1585 6 | of its native clay, by purging the original substance of
1586 9 | His instructions; whose purity He loves, whose mortifications
1587 43 | from the body? Or does he purposely use a novel phraseology?
1588 47 | that they are dead. For he pursues the point still further: "
1589 7 | effect is given to the mind's pursuits and powers; all work, too,
1590 53 | weakness, the flesh was almost putrid in the dishonour of its
1591 1 | important philosophy of Pythagoras and Empedocles, and the
1592 41 | sudden change, to become qualified to join the rising saints;
1593 50 | Spirit is still needed (to qualify them) for the kingdom. For
1594 9 | receptacle of His own Spirit, the queen of His creation, the inheritor
1595 22 | confirms their statement. Being questioned by His disciples when those
1596 46 | from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because
1597 32 | the gradual decay of some quiet and concealed grave; only
1598 22 | of course, has already quitted the grave of his own corpse
1599 8 | before the public view it is racked by every kind of torture
1600 20 | person of Pilate "the heathen raged," and in the person of Israel "
1601 26 | all made to man, "sending rain on the good and on the evil,
1602 15 | departed from life, than it ran through alone the course
1603 30 | this case, and they are rash in applying this passage
1604 57 | have to rise again, you rashly set up nature against her
1605 12 | its own. For the stellar rays are rekindled, which had
1606 11 | He is most competent to re-create who created, inasmuch as
1607 18 | the earth when it shall re-enter it. That cannot fall which
1608 13 | be reanimated, but only re-formed; then take a most complete
1609 57 | again. God is quite able to re-make what He once made. This
1610 23 | things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things
1611 34 | the flesh, which, as all readily allow, is subject to destruction.
1612 32 | consumed, on the ground of your reading in the law of Moses, that
1613 12 | had removed out of sight. Readorned also are the mirrors of
1614 43 | rather than by faith, in realization rather than in hope. Observe
1615 52 | perfect; not another, although reappearing in another form. For it
1616 37 | flesh? As if there might not reasonably enough be something which,
1617 11 | so great as to be able to rebuild and restore the edifice
1618 31 | shaken. God, therefore was rebuilding the faith which the people
1619 15 | Himself, in short, when rebuking our thoughts, includes in
1620 48 | However, they must contrive to recall to their mind even now our
1621 46 | please God," he immediately recalls the statement from an heretical
1622 9 | BOUNTY AND POWER OF GOD.~To recapitulate, then: Shall that very flesh,
1623 | recently
1624 61 | moreover, have within them receptacles where human seed may collect;
1625 63conc| bride and bridegroom in the reciprocal bond of wedded life. Now,
1626 49 | earthy;" and since this is reckoned to consist in "the old conversation,"
1627 35 | body. So, again, the very reclining at the feast in the kingdom
1628 55 | features which Peter could recognise. In that same scene Moses
1629 35 | powers. Here, then, we have a recognition of the natural immortality
1630 35 | not punished), let him recollect that the fire of hell is
1631 30 | be gathered together, and recompacted bone to bone (in other words,
1632 16 | improper object for that recompence which is certainly received
1633 33 | And again, "It shall be recompensed to you at the resurrection
1634 40 | preferring those eternal recompenses which are also invisible,
1635 63conc| Jesus Christ," who shall reconcile both God to man, and man
1636 58 | What wrath is there for the reconciled, after grace? What weakness,
1637 33 | the flesh by suggesting a recourse to figurative descriptions,
1638 7 | India and the pearls of the Red Sea in lead, or brass, or
1639 58 | What plague awaits the redeemed from death, after their
1640 2 | Creator, and Christ as the Redeemer of the flesh, they will
1641 47 | stricken, curing what is faint, redeeming what is lost, freeing what
1642 7 | This circumstance even redounds to the glory of the flesh,
1643 32 | even been devoured, when redress is said to be demanded of
1644 49 | the kingdom of God, are reduced to the life of the old conversation.
1645 13 | alike to life and death. I refer to the bird which is peculiar
1646 42 | we be not found naked." refering, of course, to those who
1647 39 | called in question by you," referring, of course, to the nation'
1648 35 | that an essence must be refitted with life, in order that
1649 61 | blush over their cavils; not reflecting that before the functions
1650 37 | turning His subject to their reflections, because He perceived that
1651 11 | to have produced in His reformation of matter far different
1652 55 | changes, conversions and reformations will necessarily take place
1653 30 | could alone express the reformed condition of Jewish affairs,
1654 57 | virtue of such a change, of reforming our condition, not our nature,
1655 39 | refused to believe it such refusal leading them indeed to an
1656 39 | such too as the Sadducees refused to believe it such refusal
1657 63conc| indeed (so distorted) are refutable from the same Scriptures.
1658 36 | XXXVI. CHRIST'S REFUTATION OF THE SADDUCEES, AND AFFIRMATION
1659 2 | condition, we at the same time refute heresy, by establishing
1660 2 | He should be. Being thus refuted touching God as the Creator,
1661 47 | for the flesh, if by its regeneration a course were not inaugurated
1662 37 | case, the meaning must be regulated by the subject which is
1663 30 | bones are destined to have a rehabiliment of flesh and breath, such
1664 4 | memory, it can never be rehabilitated from corruption to integrity,
1665 47 | Christ did, "that, as sin has reigned in death, so also grace
1666 30 | people to people), and to be reincorporated by the sinews of power and
1667 30 | state is prefigured by the reincorporation and reunion of bones, proof
1668 31 | limited to Israel only, of reinvesting those osseous remains with
1669 39 | them indeed to an absolute rejection of the whole verity. Nor
1670 31 | says): "Your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall spring
1671 24 | hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the
1672 12 | For the stellar rays are rekindled, which had been quenched
1673 33 | observe how the Scripture relates such a fact: "And He spake
1674 16 | over their will in both relations: in short, (they would claim
1675 20 | recover speech? did not the relaxed hands and palsied knees
1676 34 | weakness, since He does not relieve and help man in his entire
1677 7 | produce of the world, what relish of the elements, which is
1678 8 | that the only obligation remaining due to Him is, that it should
1679 22 | and gathered in with the remnant of Israel He then goes on
1680 21 | no certain work where the remuneration is uncertain. There is no
1681 7 | that the soul has service rendered to it, and has the mastery,
1682 13 | its posthumous life, which renews its life in a voluntary
1683 56 | condemnation! Is it not better to renounce all faith at once in the
1684 60 | flesh will be incapable of renovation. For a thing may be renewed,
1685 6 | elephant, but on account of the renown of Phidias. Could not therefore
1686 57 | of the flesh, but as the repairer of its breaches. And so
1687 57 | and incorruption to the repairing of the wasted body, he has
1688 60 | amusement or show, thoroughly repairs his ship, and then chooses
1689 8 | must be the flesh which can repay its Master Christ so vast
1690 62 | angels," in order not to repeal their existence as men;
1691 57 | assigning immortality to the repeating of death, and incorruption
1692 34 | whole of him. But when He repeats His words with increased
1693 23 | Acts refers, when he says: "Repent ye therefore, and be converted,
1694 4 | recovery of the flesh, only the repetition of desires to escape out
1695 61 | have to be laden for the replenishment of our race. But even in
1696 14 | judgment consists simply in representing the interests of the entire
1697 59 | But when the same prophet represents to us even nations sometimes
1698 36 | too, (in affirming it,) He reproached them as being both ignorant
1699 10 | occasion to remark, that no reproaches can fairly be cast upon
1700 11 | have produced than to have reproduced, to have imparted a beginning,
1701 63conc| you hate her; for you have repudiated her Creator. You have accustomed
1702 5 | disparagement of it being repulsed by our own eulogy. The heretics,
1703 18 | intercourse with God. For when he requested of the sons of Heth a spot
1704 17 | absolute desert without requiring the addition of acts, the
1705 6 | forming man, it would be requisite that the dignity of the
1706 39 | rising in the body, since requisition will have to be made therein
1707 17 | apart from the flesh be requited with pleasure or pain for
1708 57 | death of the whole person is rescinded by its resurrection, what
1709 40 | WHICH ATTEST OUR DOCTRINE RESCUED FROM THE PERVERSIONS OF
1710 46 | sense, even though somewhat resembling it. For when he actually
1711 43 | PHRASE, WHICH CALLS OUR RESIDENCE IN THE FLESH ABSENCE FROM
1712 12 | spring-tide and autumn, with their resources, their routines, their fruits.
1713 16 | discharging the functions of their respective office, and a power over
1714 31 | of revelation could have rested in a parable: its aim must
1715 38 | hitherto disembodied souls resting under the altar, was quite
1716 37 | themselves are nothing but the resting-place of corpses: for it is incontestable
1717 20 | pardons, its captivities, restorations, and at last its final dispersion.
1718 28 | opposite, reviving, amounts to restoring life to the flesh, it must
1719 8 | widowhood, and the modest restraint in secret on the marriage-bed,
1720 21 | on which our trust wholly rests, on which also our instruction
1721 48 | different ones, which men are to resume. Since, however, such a
1722 53 | spiritual body. For it only resumes in the resurrection the
1723 4 | of the consequences of resuming the flesh? Will it again
1724 18 | they apply. As to the word resurrectio, whenever I hear of its
1725 52 | death will bear fruit in resurrection-life the same in essence, only
1726 58 | without experiencing a resurrrection (because they have not even
1727 38 | invisible soul except by the resuscitation of a visible substance.
1728 1 | of all perception still retain an appetite. But (let the
1729 14 | a cause; still, however, retaining under this very circumstance
1730 12 | too, accompanied with a retinue of its own. For the stellar
1731 43 | follows): for of course the retribution will have to be paid by
1732 57 | raising and the other to the retrieval of the body. I suppose,
1733 30 | the reincorporation and reunion of bones, proof is offered
1734 50 | when it pleased God to reveal to him His Son, to preach
1735 30 | not free from doubt), by revealing to him the process of the
1736 1 | us that truth which God reveals, but the crowd derides,
1737 2 | particular question under review may be said to have been
1738 13 | that is, shall flourish or revive, from death, from the grave
1739 28 | flesh, therefore, will be revived by the resurrection. Surely
1740 12 | things, is likewise the reviver of the flesh. And surely,
1741 12 | whole, therefore, of this revolving order of things bears witness
1742 5 | challenged us to use our rhetoric no less than our philosophy.
1743 12 | indeed, renders back to us richer and fuller blessings than
1744 60 | and restored, gallantly riding on the wave in all the beauty
1745 44 | holiness, and patience, and righteouness, and wisdom, in which the
1746 60 | God's skill, and will, and rights? Besides, if a wealthy shipowner,
1747 57 | and the favour of the gold ring, and the name and tribe
1748 58 | their renewed strength? What risk and danger, after their
1749 50 | and blood," because of its rite of circumcision, Judaism
1750 22 | perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them
1751 6 | of God, "thought it not robbery to be equal to God." Thus,
1752 27 | have also in the Scriptures robes mentioned as allegorizing
1753 24 | obstacle is there but the Roman state, the falling away
1754 47 | which he "beseeches" the Romans to "present" as "a living
1755 40 | in your hearts by faith, rooted and grounded in love," making "
1756 29 | of bones; and He led me round about them in a circuit:
1757 12 | with their resources, their routines, their fruits. Forasmuch
1758 60 | cavity of our mouth, and its rows of teeth, and the passage
1759 26 | presence of the Lord, at whose royal dignity it before exulted?
1760 30 | power and the nerves of royalty, and to be brought out as
1761 7 | only laid aside its clayey rudiments, but also took on itself
1762 9 | honourable members;" although ruined, since He says, "I am come
1763 34 | stronger for injuring man, ruining him wholly? and must God
1764 24 | Antichrist upon (its own ruins)? "And then shall be revealed
1765 20 | earth" in Herod, and the rulers in Annas and Caiaphas, were
1766 37 | Him with the ear, and to ruminate on Him with the understanding,
1767 9 | which He clothed with His sacraments and His instructions; whose
1768 63conc| the clear light of their (sacred) words and meanings. Now,
1769 42 | very city, when they were sacrilegiously laying the foundations of
1770 57 | and surrounding it with safeguards of protection. Thus our
1771 52 | come. And with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once to illustrate
1772 27 | these closets or cellars salted and reserved for use, to
1773 20 | Damascus and the spoils of Samaria, still it was literally
1774 48 | the baptismal bath: its sanctification comes from the "answer." "
1775 48 | is not the soul which is sanctified by the baptismal bath: its
1776 47 | And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly." And as if this
1777 27 | may be regarded as the sanctity of the flesh. And so, when
1778 15 | call Hegemonikon, has its sanctuary in the brain, or in the
1779 61 | for the secretion of those sanguineous issues, which their tardier
1780 18 | sons of Heth a spot to bury Sarah in, he said to them, "Give
1781 1 | afterwards with gluttonous satiety, using the selfsame fires
1782 1 | Seneca to like effect. It is satisfactory, however, that the no less
1783 63conc| of the flesh, you will be satisfied with the refreshing draughts.~
1784 45 | aside the old man they may satisfy the apostle's precepts?
1785 47 | made perfect in weakness," saving what is lost, reviving what
1786 47 | whence also we look for our Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall
1787 40 | substance itself as the savour of the substance. Thus when,
1788 7 | swords of finished temper scabbards of equal worth; whilst God
1789 21 | qualities it is that all schemes of unusual grandeur are
1790 16 | hinder its being saved on the score of its innocence? For although
1791 61 | suggests, pour torrents of scorn and contempt upon the natural
1792 20 | mouth." "He gave His back to scourges, and His cheeks to blows,
1793 19 | as the Lord likened the scribes and Pharisees to "whited
1794 21 | IS THE CLEARNESS OF THEIR SCRIPTURAL ENUNCIATION.~Well, if it
1795 32 | than to dispute, and more scrupulous of the wisdom of God than
1796 7 | refuse to mount the gems of Scythia and India and the pearls
1797 45 | Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
1798 5 | and protection of even a secondary deity. The angels, we know,
1799 28 | however formidable; then, secondly, draw forth the flesh from
1800 60 | in, masticate, swallow, secrete, digest, eject? Of what
1801 61 | they not designed for the secretion of those sanguineous issues,
1802 60 | loins, conscious of seminal secretions, and all the other organs
1803 19 | denied the resurrection. Secretly, however, in their minds
1804 48 | there would be no pledge secured by this process of a corporeal
1805 26 | RESURRECTION, THE ONLY SENSE WHICH SECURES THEIR CONSISTENCY AND DIGNITY.~
1806 51 | both parties the pledge and security of its entire perfection.
1807 | seems
1808 34 | will, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on
1809 24 | are with premature haste seizing that which is promised after
1810 6 | consideration, who even by His selection of His material deemed it,
1811 63conc| perplexities of the past, and their self-chosen allegories and parables,
1812 1 | even death itself, says Seneca to like effect. It is satisfactory,
1813 45 | not say concerning the seniority of either substance. It
1814 52 | actually says, "Man is like the senseless cattle"), "another flesh
1815 46 | I may answer each point separately), since salvation is promised
1816 19 | not really so, namely, the separation of body and soul: it is
1817 47 | Lord." Thus throughout this series of passages, whilst withdrawing
1818 51 | that you may understand him seriously to apply his statement to
1819 28 | order, subdue to man the old serpent, the devil, however formidable;
1820 51 | LI. THE SESSION OF JESUS IN HIS INCARNATE
1821 30 | with a view to his earnest setting forth of the same. He then
1822 36 | a woman who had married seven brothers, so that it was
1823 15 | Come now, let our opponents sever the connection of the flesh
1824 8 | fortified; the flesh is shadowed with the imposition of hands,
1825 20 | statements; nor are all shadows, but there are bodies too:
1826 6 | drawn out, and moulded into shape. Imagine God wholly employed
1827 49 | image of the earthy, by our sharing in his trangression, by
1828 5 | ourselves is that which shatters the condition of the flesh,
1829 6 | Or must this remain to shaw how much more nobly man
1830 20 | and as a sheep before the shearer," that is, Herod, "is dumb,
1831 7 | must consign to some vilest sheath the shadow of His own soul,
1832 34 | the shoulders of the Good Shepherd, we have here unquestionably
1833 3 | put on Christ? Why use the shield of another, when the apostle
1834 60 | rights? Besides, if a wealthy shipowner, who does not grudge money
1835 58 | deep, in whose belly whole ships were devoured, and after
1836 31 | was then depressed at some shock in their existing circumstances,
1837 59 | Nay, rather Christ has shone as the true light on the
1838 20 | Him drink vinegar;" "they shook their heads, and mocked
1839 34 | which was carried on the shoulders of the Good Shepherd, we
1840 22 | assemblies is still with shouts consigning "the Christians
1841 47 | understood by our heretics, who shun the light of Scripture: "
1842 9 | physician, but they that are sick;" although not honourable,
1843 21 | clearly set forth on the sides both of punishment and reward,
1844 33 | He says, "for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than
1845 13 | if creation affords no sign precisely like it, inasmuch
1846 8 | consecrated; the flesh is signed (with the cross), that the
1847 13 | be more express and more significant for our subject; or to what
1848 33 | unmistakeable meaning, should signify any other thing than their
1849 12 | all things become sordid, silent, stupid; everywhere business
1850 6 | god farmed out of a most silly animal, but as the world'
1851 30 | a consistent basis for a similitude, nor does nonentity form
1852 19 | think this: Woe betide the simpleton who during his present life
1853 45 | and the soul have had a simultaneous birth, without any calcuable
1854 56 | ascribe glory to God? How sing to Him "the new song,"if
1855 61 | mentioned, seeing that heretics single out what parts of our bodies
1856 13 | the East, famous for its singularity, marvelous from its posthumous
1857 14 | ours. For if man had never sinned, he would simply and solely
1858 9 | rather the salvation of the sinner than his death;" although
1859 9 | champion of His testimony, the sister of His Christ! We know by
1860 20 | was "led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a sheep before the
1861 12 | entire, over all the world, slaying its own death, night opening
1862 34 | flesh be, as our opponents slightingly think, but a poor fraction,
1863 7 | hearing, the taste, the smell, the touch? Is it not by
1864 22 | have not, tribe by tribe, smitten their breasts, looking on
1865 34 | observe, in which substance so-ever you assume man to have perished,
1866 26 | they consider the special soil of Judaea to be that very
1867 62 | more exposed to the usual solicitations of the flesh in their angelic
1868 4 | integrity, from a shattered to a solid State, from an empty to
1869 | somewhere
1870 56 | How sing to Him "the new song,"if I am ignorant that it
1871 18 | when he requested of the sons of Heth a spot to bury Sarah
1872 19 | XIX. THE SOPHISTICAL SENSE PUT BY HERETICS ON
1873 33 | must first meet the same sophistry as advanced by those who
1874 52 | deposited in it, and again sought out of it. And therefore
1875 6 | noble, though coming from a source which is comparatively faded
1876 7 | partake of (the soul's) actual sovereignty. For what enjoyment of nature
1877 33 | Himself, as that of the sower, (which He interprets) of
1878 58 | unworn and fresh for the space of forty years; that in
1879 2 | certain Lucan, who does not spare even this part of our nature,
1880 33 | the fig-tree, which was spared a while in hopes of improve-ment
1881 15 | every deed, and neither spares the guilty nor grudges the
1882 33 | disciples also asked Him, "Why speakest Thou in parables?" And the
1883 29 | flesh (although without specially naming the very substance),
1884 36 | which they started. Their specious inquiry concerned the flesh,
1885 31 | quenched; and they shall be a spectacle to all flesh" even to that
1886 27 | and thy garments, shall speedily arise;" where he has no
1887 8 | and when finally it is spent beneath its agonies, struggling
1888 52 | husk to cover it, without a spike even in germ, without the
1889 22 | for I will not call them Spiritualists), that it is either to be
1890 20 | face even from the shame of spitting." "He was numbered with
1891 7 | Thus, that which becomes a spoil when stripped off, was a
1892 20 | power of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria, still it was
1893 7 | circumcision "' a putting off (or spoliation) of the flesh," affirmed
1894 33 | prayer; or capable of being spontaneously understood, as in the parable
1895 63conc| received His Spirit as her spouse. Now, what you take to be
1896 12 | summers return, as do the spring-tide and autumn, with their resources,
1897 5 | difference in the procedure, springing of course from the nature
1898 42 | of that body which is to sprout into life again in the resurrection.
1899 8 | banishment from the world, amidst squalor, filth, and noisome food,
1900 25 | Scriptures both indicate the stages of the last times, and concentrate
1901 16 | has received honourable stains in war, and has been thus
1902 52 | without the glory of a stalk. It rises, however, out
1903 35 | on Christ's thrones, and standing at last on His right hand
1904 18 | fail to discover that it stands erect by means of life.
1905 53 | of its decay, the flesh stank in corruption, and yet it
1906 4 | Hence it is that heretics start at once from this point,
1907 36 | the question which they started. Their specious inquiry
1908 53 | distinguishes between the two states, in the very essentials
1909 51 | of God, with the view of stating this with accumulated stress,
1910 6 | worship is given to the statue, and it is no longer regarded
1911 16 | stand to the soul in the stead of a vessel as an instrument
1912 36 | question and the answer be kept steadily in view, and the discussion
1913 45 | devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let
1914 12 | retinue of its own. For the stellar rays are rekindled, which
1915 55 | was not visible. So also Stephen had already put on the appearance
1916 61 | women, whom nature has made sterile, with a structure which
1917 33 | improve-ment an emblem of Jewish sterility. Now, if even parables obscure
1918 60 | keel, or her bow, or her stern, and without the solidity
1919 7 | his clayey material into a stiffer one, and to mould one form
1920 53 | nobody had yet preceived it "stink;" nobody for four days had
1921 45 | the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather
1922 60 | and the branch-way of the stomach, and the gulf of the belly,
1923 26 | killed the prophets, and stoned those that were sent to
1924 35 | anything but cement and stones and bricks form the body
1925 55 | knees which bent beneath the stoning. The Lord, again, in the
1926 29 | bones, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, strong
1927 60 | being shattered with the storm and broken by decay, with
1928 44 | then in a thing which is a stranger to salvation, in a substance
1929 43 | body, he says that we are strangers, absent from it, because
1930 8 | and mangled in its bed of straw; when at length before the
1931 47 | enslaved, recalling what has strayed, raising what is fallen;
1932 63conc| which descends in copious streams from the Paraclete. If you
1933 39 | every one of his writings to strengthen men's belief of this Christian
1934 2 | be instructed, directed, strengthened, inasmuch as the very oneness
1935 53 | circumstance discover how strenuously he labours to establish
1936 51 | stating this with accumulated stress, he deprived corruption
1937 20 | the figurative language is stretched. And, indeed, if all are
1938 47 | is dead, healing what is stricken, curing what is faint, redeeming
1939 57 | and the fetter, and the stripes), will it therefore be fit
1940 59 | in any other flesh am I striving after continence. If there
1941 45 | which gives the finishing stroke and perfection to a work,
1942 34 | devil be understood to be stronger for injuring man, ruining
1943 8 | spent beneath its agonies, struggling to render its last turn
1944 27 | no thought of cloaks or stuff gowns, but means the rising
1945 12 | things become sordid, silent, stupid; everywhere business ceases,
1946 28 | in the appointed order, subdue to man the old serpent,
1947 14 | which we mainly adopt in our subject-matter. We began with the dignity
1948 51 | are themselves rather the subjects of corruption, I mean through
1949 47 | sense is that which he has subjoined, "that the body of sin might
1950 46 | as its non-condemnation subjugates it to the law of sin and
1951 52 | the water of baptism has submerged). In like manner does he
1952 16 | authority, and to the flesh submission, we must see to it that (
1953 62 | when they became as men, submitted in their own unaltered substance
1954 62 | eating and drinking, and submitting their feet to the washing
1955 2 | reducing to dissolution, and substitutes some other thing in lieu
1956 35 | it will only be an idle subterfuge! For since both substances
1957 63conc| no admixture of heretical subtleties, and pluck out from it their
1958 19 | in their baptism. By such subtlety, then, even in conversation
1959 49 | flesh, you ought not to subvert its form nor its substance,
1960 6 | subject before me if I can but succeed in vindicating for the flesh
1961 14 | also just. For, by both succouring the good and punishing the
1962 9 | honour from God, which He succours? I venture to declare, that
1963 18 | likeness of death, does not succumb to the reality thereof.
1964 40 | course, to be renewed by the suggestion of the Spirit, advancing
1965 61 | parts of our bodies may suit them, handle them without
1966 48 | their church discipline, had summed up the substance of his
1967 12 | had worn away. Winters and summers return, as do the spring-tide
1968 14 | and Lord, and Creator to summon man to a judgment on this
1969 63conc| to view, like Adam when summoned to hear from his Lord and
1970 47 | have been written with a sunbeam is understood by our heretics,
1971 15 | they may be emboldened to sunder it also in the recompense
1972 42 | aside, or to some extent sundered or worn away (and this condition
1973 7 | would be nothing else than sundering itself from the flesh. So
1974 49 | only true "heavenly," nay, super-celestial Being, He is still man,
1975 52 | all destroyed on which the superimposed matter is put, nay, it is
1976 14 | whether the divine censure superintends a judicial examination of
1977 42 | to have put over that the supervestment of immortality; for it will
1978 12 | send Prophecy also as a supplemental instructor, that, being
1979 7 | woman out of the man was supplemented with flesh; but it ought,
1980 56 | immortality and incorruption supplies; for in that case all the
1981 60 | bodily limbs will continue to supply the needs of this life up
1982 55 | does rise again, on the supposition that it is lost in the change.
1983 6 | but also the pledge and surety, of God. To what purpose
1984 40 | Now it is no matter of surprise if arguments are captiously
1985 42 | flesh in which we shall be surprised at last; because he says
1986 10 | while He rejected, than to surrender to perdition what He once
1987 57 | from it all sufferings, and surrounding it with safeguards of protection.
1988 1 | supposes that nothing will survive after death. And yet they
1989 2 | accord he can hardly help suspecting. Now it is by a discrepancy
1990 61 | pleasures of our members may be suspended, with an intermission which,
1991 62 | substance, because of the suspension of their spiritual incidents.
1992 53 | wrapped it in its linen swathes; nobody had deposited it
1993 26 | with milk and honey by the sweetness of His assurance, truly
1994 7 | principle, should find for your swords of finished temper scabbards
1995 32 | even those beasts (which symbolize) especially the men who
1996 2 | ourselves also, that is, in the system of the Creator. Because
1997 57 | name and tribe as well as table of his patron. Give, then,
1998 7 | speech, even when it is only tacitly indicated? And speech is
1999 6 | of our flesh from all the taints, as you deem them, of its
2000 35 | body to be that which is tangible to us, that is, the flesh,