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2001 11 | have had no existence is tantamount to having been nothing?
2002 61 | sanguineous issues, which their tardier and weaker sex is inadequate
2003 63conc| pluck out from it their tares. He has accordingly now
2004 12 | its entire substance is tarnished with blackness; all things
2005 6 | element, with the view of tarnishing the origin of the flesh,
2006 2 | aware how hard is their task in insinuating the existence
2007 17 | which souls are already tasting in Hades, if it was destined
2008 40 | decay; but the wear and tear which for the name of Christ
2009 30 | revealed to the prophet, telling them that they were themselves,
2010 7 | your swords of finished temper scabbards of equal worth;
2011 7 | has it in his power, by tempering the blast of his fire, to
2012 45 | the womb, they are also temporally identical in their birth.
2013 45 | ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another,
2014 22 | in "the trees which are tenderly sprouting into a flower-stalk,
2015 2 | holding, after the heretical tenets of Valentinus, and according
2016 22 | with such severity "shake terribly" (as Isaiah expresses it ("
2017 30 | THIS VISION INTERPRETED BY TERTULLIAN OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE
2018 4 | men actually use, you must test them in their conferences,
2019 39 | than to-explain the Old Testament and confirm the New, and
2020 63conc| Scriptures (of both God's Testaments) by the clear light of their (
2021 48 | of God; because we have testified of God that He raised up
2022 31 | its aim must have been to testify a resurrection, in order
2023 18 | even irrespective of the testimonies of revelation. Let us see,
2024 34 | Man, of course, in his texture of flesh and soul. Neither,
2025 56 | that it is I who owe Him thanks? But why is exception taken
2026 | Thee
2027 41 | righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
2028 | thence
2029 44 | lower world," a life which thenceforth has been and will be ours.
2030 | thereby
2031 26 | that man may be recalled thereto just such as he was driven
2032 50 | which can be profitable thereunto, that is, the Spirit; and
2033 24 | of the Lord cometh as a thief in the night. For when they
2034 15 | flesh will still be the thinking place of the soul. The soul
2035 2 | thing in lieu of it. Some third nature it is which, according
2036 61 | more drink, because no more thirst; no more concubinage, because
2037 11 | should happen to be still thirsting for the knowledge of God,
2038 20 | appraised by the traitor in thirty pieces of silver." What
2039 46 | this only by penetrating thither where that is which it is
2040 28 | three signs denoted the threefold power of God: when it shall,
2041 63conc| fountains, you will never thrist for other doctrine: no feverish
2042 60 | and the passage of the throat, and the branch-way of the
2043 6 | GAUGING THE EXCELLENCE OF TIlE FLESH. CHRIST PARTOOK OF
2044 60 | broken by decay, with all her timbers repaired and restored, gallantly
2045 60 | belly, and the entangled tissue of the bowels, when there
2046 39 | least among the Jews, than to-explain the Old Testament and confirm
2047 49 | Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." Now, when the apostle
2048 32 | bodies which are consigned to tombs whose resurrection is foretold,
2049 35 | as also not an eye nor a tooth. And yet whence shall come
2050 61 | not know), that there are toothless persons in the world. Look
2051 52 | protection of a bearded top, without the glory of a
2052 56 | flesh of ours should be torn by martyrdom, and another
2053 61 | their whim suggests, pour torrents of scorn and contempt upon
2054 40 | tribulations as well as in tortures and persecutions. Now the
2055 | toward
2056 18 | The soul, however, has no trace of a fall in its designation,
2057 20 | He was appraised by the traitor in thirty pieces of silver."
2058 15 | which the flesh does not transact in company with the soul,
2059 2 | salvation a question which transcends all others in its importance
2060 32 | to be something else, and transfer it to another signification?
2061 47 | righteousness and holiness, and transferring the same from the wages
2062 55 | But if you maintain that a transfiguration and a conversion amounts
2063 47 | bodily frame which has been transfixed (at all events), nor has
2064 32 | ask of these very adroit transformers of bones and sinews, and
2065 31 | carcases of those who have transgressed: for their worm shall never
2066 34 | man with the sentence of transgression, and has therefore made
2067 39 | condition, as an apparent transgressor of the law, being thought
2068 20 | He was numbered with the transgressors;" "He was pierced in His
2069 58 | injury, and all disgrace translated as they have been from this
2070 4 | mire of its own seminal transmission; worthless, weak, covered
2071 43 | confusedly constructed, with a transposition of ideas? Is the question
2072 42 | Nothwithstanding, he who has already traversed Hades is destined also to
2073 31 | their bonds, and ye shall tread down your enemies." And
2074 2 | is no need, I suppose, to treat of the soul's safety; for
2075 2 | resurrection of the flesh, (treating it) just as if it were uncertain
2076 2 | already encountered them in treatises severally directed against
2077 46 | arguments, when the apostle treats the subject with perfect
2078 26 | says: "The earth saw and trembled; the mountains melted like
2079 18 | with Him "a soul that was trembling even unto death," but which
2080 23 | having forgiven you all trespasses." And again: "If ye are
2081 40 | resurrection, but of enduring tribulation it will be understood from
2082 40 | in harassing cares and tribulations as well as in tortures and
2083 30 | not, you may be sure, have tried the prophet's faith on a
2084 30 | without yet naming Israel, He tries the prophet's own faith: "
2085 56 | the resurrection, than to trifle with the wisdom and justice
2086 20 | conceived in her womb; nor in a trope did she bear Emmanuel, that
2087 20 | Isaiah here give us? What tropes does David? What allegories
2088 40 | with their participation in troubles, must necessarily run their
2089 58 | either the mitres or the trousers of the three brethren, however
2090 57 | the same old sufferings? I trow not. He is instead thereof
2091 26 | I suppose) onions and truffles among earth's bounties,
2092 3 | deemed to be all the more trustworthy, inasmuch as its definitive
2093 7 | the skin to be a coat or tunic. Now this being the case,
2094 24 | Thessalonians. For we read: "How ye turned from idols to serve the
2095 59 | judgment of God consists in the twofold sentence, of salvation and
2096 63conc| by its secret embraces, ultimately to stand forth to view,
2097 61 | even here below, we are not unaccustomed to check our longings!~
2098 62 | submitted in their own unaltered substance of spirit to be
2099 13 | take a most complete and unassailable, symbol of our hope, for
2100 18 | a restoration) is either unattainable by the flesh itself, or
2101 61 | IMPOSES OF HUNTING UP ALL ITS UNBLUSHING CAVILS.~Now you have received
2102 32 | XXXII. EVEN UNBURIED BODIES WILL BE RAISED AGAIN.
2103 62 | angels," undergo in their unchanged substance of flesh the treatment
2104 23 | were dead in sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened
2105 4 | the dregs of the ground, uncleaner afterwards from the mire
2106 51 | indiscriminately, and so unconditionally, excluded from the kingdom
2107 26 | and of the oil of God's unction, and the wine of the Spirit,
2108 42 | also that teeth continue undecayed for ages both of them the
2109 14 | to reason; because there underlies this demurrer: the flesh
2110 11 | beginning made by God out of underlying matter. Now, even if this
2111 53 | death; in a word, that it underwent death, that is, was demolished,
2112 58 | FLOW THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF UNDISTURBED JOY AND PEACE.~"Everlasting
2113 5 | each heretic, I should not unfairly derive the dignity of the
2114 48 | useless, he may induce an unfaltering belief in the resurrection
2115 7 | finest wines and most costly unguents the most fitting vessels;
2116 | unlikely
2117 46 | determined the death of sin, But unmeaning is this opposition which
2118 33 | declarations, which have an unmistakeable meaning, should signify
2119 39 | excited the heathen, and a not unnatural incredulity in so wonderful
2120 15 | isolated they be, however unprecipitated into act by means of the
2121 37 | CHRIST'S ASSERTION ABOUT THE UNPROFITABLENESS OF THE FLESH EXPLAINED CONSISTENTLY
2122 43 | argument from the beginning is unravelled in this concluding clause,
2123 23 | his care, without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of
2124 22 | now at God's right hand so unseasonably and with such severity "
2125 4 | how great a licence of unseemly language these men actually
2126 22 | which, I suppose, is as yet unshattered? Who has thus early put "
2127 57 | made. This power and this unstinted grace of His He has already
2128 18 | impossible for God to effect, or unsuitable to the final judgment. Incredible,
2129 21 | it is that all schemes of unusual grandeur are litigiously
2130 27 | the bright beauty of the unwedded flesh. In the gospel even, "
2131 48 | particulars in order that in his unwillingness to have his conflicts in
2132 58 | children of Israel remained unworn and fresh for the space
2133 20 | BY THE HERETICS.~Now, to upset all conceits of this sort,
2134 61 | members, for the purpose of upsetting the resurrection, and making
2135 2 | pretence of considering a more urgent inquiry, namely man's own
2136 16 | every instrument becomes useful from without, consisting
2137 27 | the very phrase which he uses, "Until His anger pass away,"
2138 | using
2139 33 | follows, then, that He did not usually address them in parables;
2140 45 | has both a mouth for the utterance of all holy words, and a
2141 5 | V. SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN
2142 30 | express some other thing. Vacuity is not a consistent basis
2143 59 | even on this earth that the Valentinians have gone to school for
2144 35 | sparrows, yet "we are of more value than many sparrows," for
2145 59 | less than nothing, and vanity," and sometimes as about
2146 2 | thus see drawn into the net vanquished on the resurrection of the
2147 3 | surface, and very often is at variance with appearances.~
2148 20 | distinguished, inasmuch as the verities would not have been declared,
2149 13 | FROM OUR AUTHOR'S VIEW OF A VERSE IN THE NINETY-SECOND PSALM,
2150 42 | we are transformed that vestiture which is from heaven. For
2151 7 | when stripped off, was a vestment as long as it remained laid
2152 42 | over and arrayed in the vesture of immortality? Now, he
2153 6 | VI. NOT THE LOWLINESS OF THE
2154 25 | that await it out of the vials of the angels, and that
2155 48 | made them suppose that the vicarious baptism (in question) would
2156 7 | VII. THE EARTHY MATERIAL OF
2157 8 | VIII. CHRISTIANITY, BY ITS PROVISION
2158 55 | said: "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned
2159 6 | His own operation whatever vileness might have accrued to His
2160 7 | God must consign to some vilest sheath the shadow of His
2161 4 | HERETICS ALIKE IN THEIR VILIFICATION OF THE FLESH AND ITS FUNCTIONS,
2162 6 | if I can but succeed in vindicating for the flesh as much as
2163 26 | has its vigour from the vine of Christ. On exactly the
2164 20 | gall, and made Him drink vinegar;" "they shook their heads,
2165 57 | it be restored after some violent injury. Greater cases prescribe
2166 20 | not figuratively that the Virgin conceived in her womb; nor
2167 8 | own especial suffering. Virginity, likewise, and widowhood,
2168 15 | allege against them the virtues of the flesh; surely also
2169 2 | ourselves previously issued our volume On the flesh of Christ;
2170 16 | principals, to whom they voluntarily yielded their assistance;
2171 32 | in order that they may vomit up what they have consumed,
2172 58 | and after three days was vomited out again safe and sound;
2173 60 | she should make no further voyages, will you contend that the
2174 25 | with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God;
2175 35 | bricks form the body of a wall. If any one imports into
2176 56 | this flesh of ours should wallow in uncleanness, and another
2177 43 | novel phraseology? For, wanting to express our temporary
2178 32 | of the wisdom of God than wantonly bent on his own, when he
2179 49 | works that he professes to warn them beforehand, even as
2180 40 | fightings," which of course warred down the flesh, "within
2181 51 | described "in his members as warring against the law of his mind,"
2182 8 | service. The flesh, indeed, is washed, in order that the soul
2183 62 | submitting their feet to the washing of the bath having clothed
2184 52 | ground, out of which thou wast taken;" nor that the phrase "
2185 22 | heaven is nigh at hand." "Watch ye, therefore, and pray
2186 60 | gallantly riding on the wave in all the beauty of a renewed
2187 22 | perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing
2188 26 | the mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord,"
2189 61 | which their tardier and weaker sex is inadequate to disperse?
2190 60 | and rights? Besides, if a wealthy shipowner, who does not
2191 2 | we have shown with what weapons we ought to meet them. And
2192 23 | Gala-tians: "Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due
2193 63conc| in the reciprocal bond of wedded life. Now, if any should
2194 27 | In the gospel even, "the wedding garment" may be regarded
2195 58 | formerly wept, and which might weep again, if the loving-kindness
2196 35 | whence shall come that "weeping and gnashing of teeth,"
2197 23 | Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall
2198 15 | called back, if it alone went away. But (nothing of the
2199 58 | indeed which had formerly wept, and which might weep again,
2200 32 | doubt the bowels of the whale would have had abundant
2201 51 | itself, all flesh and blood whatsoever; since Jesus is still sitting
2202 19 | he would be in the grave. Wherefore that also must be held to
2203 15 | between the eyebrows, or wheresoever the philosophers are pleased
2204 | Wherever
2205 40 | afflictions and injuries wherewith the outward man is worn
2206 61 | delicacy, and, as their whim suggests, pour torrents
2207 57 | once were exposed to the whip, and the fetter, and the
2208 19 | scribes and Pharisees to "whited sepulchres." Whence it follows
2209 | whoever
2210 15 | your hearts?" and again: "Whosoever looketh on a woman, to lust
2211 61 | opening thereof, small or wide? Why not, too, for moderating
2212 33 | judge and the importunate widow, which is expressly applied
2213 8 | Virginity, likewise, and widowhood, and the modest restraint
2214 28 | lives will I require of all wild beasts; and I will require
2215 32 | especially the men who are wildly opposed to the Christian
2216 5 | of course, if He had not willed its production, He would
2217 16 | possessing no power of its own of willing or refusing, it, in fact,
2218 29 | God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe in
2219 7 | provide for your finest wines and most costly unguents
2220 12 | monthly course had worn away. Winters and summers return, as do
2221 4 | gout, and once more the wishing to die? Of course these
2222 63conc| not the soul only which withdraws from view. The flesh, too,
2223 18 | revelation of it had been withheld, simply because so many
2224 63conc| Holy Ghost should no longer withhold the effusions of His gracious
2225 48 | and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
2226 39 | unnatural incredulity in so wonderful a matter began to harass
2227 7 | OF WHICH FLESH IS CREATED WONDERFULLY IMPROVED BY GOD'S MANIPULATION.
2228 12 | reproduce them until consumed. Wondrous method! from a defrauder
2229 10 | statement in which he is wont to reproach the flesh. For
2230 40 | which is but for a moment, worketh for as a far more exceeding
2231 19 | shut up in the death of a worldly life, as in a grave.~
2232 31 | transgressed: for their worm shall never die, nor shall
2233 26 | only use, but even abuse, "worshipping the creature itself in opposition
2234 arg | INHERENT CORRUPTION AND WORTHLESSNESS TO ALL HIS WORKS AMONGST
2235 9 | condemned, for says He, "I shall wound, and also heal. " Why reproach
2236 4 | there again be ulcers, and wounds, and fever, and gout, and
2237 53 | was incorrupt; nobody had wrapped it in its linen swathes;
2238 61 | meal: why not rather for wreathing your mouth with suitable
2239 54 | reference to the flesh they wrest the word swallowed up into
2240 33 | cleared by a preface from the writer of the Gospel, as in the
2241 3 | WERE, HOWEVER, MORE OFTEN WRONG BOTH IN RELIGIOUS OPINIONS
2242 12 | God write it, before He wrote it in the Scriptures; He
2243 6 | aggrandized by the change wrought in it. Now, even gold is
2244 10 | X. HOLY SCRIPTURE MAGNIFIES
2245 11 | XI. THE POWER OF GOD FULLY
2246 12 | XII. SOME ANALOGIES IN NATURE
2247 13 | XIII. FROM OUR AUTHOR'S VIEW
2248 14 | XIV. A SUFFICIENT CAUSE FOR
2249 19 | XIX. THE SOPHISTICAL SENSE PUT
2250 40 | XL. SUNDRY PASSAGES OF ST.
2251 41 | XLI. THE DISSOLUTION OF OUR
2252 42 | XLII. DEATH CHANGES, WITHOUT
2253 43 | XLIII. NO DISPARAGEMENT OF OUR
2254 44 | XLIV. SUNDRY OTHER PASSAGES OF
2255 49 | XLIX. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED.
2256 45 | XLV. THE OLD MAN AND THE NEW
2257 46 | XLVI. IT IS THE WORKS OF THE
2258 47 | XLVII. ST. PAUL, ALL THROUGH,
2259 48 | XLVIII. SUNDRY PASSAGES IN THE
2260 15 | XV. AS THE FLESH IS A PARTAKER
2261 16 | XVI. THE HERETICS CALLED THE
2262 17 | XVII. THE FLESH WILL BE ASSOCIATED
2263 18 | XVIII. SCRIPTURE PHRASES AND PASSAGES
2264 20 | XX. FIGURATIVE SENSES HAVE
2265 21 | XXI. NO MERE METAPHOR IN THE
2266 22 | XXII. THE SCRIPTURES FORBID OUR
2267 23 | XXIII. SUNDRY PASSAGES OF ST.
2268 24 | XXIV. OTHER PASSAGES QUOTED FROM
2269 29 | XXIX. EZEKIEL'S VISION OF THE
2270 25 | XXV. ST. JOHN, IN THE APOCALYPSE,
2271 26 | XXVI. EVEN THE METAPHORICAL DESCRIPTIONS
2272 27 | XXVII. CERTAIN METAPHORICAL TERMS
2273 28 | XXVIII. PROPHETIC THINGS AND ACTIONS,
2274 30 | XXX. THIS VISION INTERPRETED
2275 32 | XXXII. EVEN UNBURIED BODIES WILL
2276 33 | XXXIII. SO MUCH FOR THE PROPHETIC
2277 34 | XXXIV. CHRIST PLAINLY TESTIFIES
2278 39 | XXXIX. ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE AFFORDED
2279 35 | XXXV. EXPLANATION OF WHAT IS
2280 36 | XXXVI. CHRIST'S REFUTATION OF
2281 37 | XXXVII. CHRIST'S ASSERTION ABOUT
2282 38 | XXXVIII. CHRIST, BY RAISING THE
2283 48 | your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false
2284 | Yes
2285 4 | paunch itself of course yielding it all up again? Shall the
2286 31 | from your sepulchres, as young calves let loose from their