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1 16| been predestinated, and Abel, and Enoch, and Noah, and
2 8 | abundant Spirit on the poor and abject. And, because He of His
3 22| and reproaches, in bearing abominations, in experiencing things
4 24| since the Scripture itself, abounding in heavenly fulness, divests
5 17| written, "When He scattered abroad the children of Adam, He
6 1 | AND LORD OMNIPOTENT, THE ABSOLUTE FOUNDER OF ALL THINGS. THE
7 18| the ashes, with butter and abundance of milk itself, and urges
8 8 | mercy, by conferring His abundant Spirit on the poor and abject.
9 1 | of them beneath both the abysses and the depths I of the
10 20| He says, "How long do ye accept the persons of men?" That
11 23| as we have said--have so accepted Him as God, as to think
12 4 | there is never in Him any accession or increase of any part
13 29| resurrection of immortality, accustoming them to be associated in
14 18| unperceived increments, gently accustoms men's eyes to bear its full
15 29| nor is He another in so acting, but He is one and the same,
16 28| love." Further, He says in addition: "But I have called you
17 7 | to His hearers religious additions to their knowledge of God.
18 30| New Testaments might be adduced in testimony that thus the
19 29| in virgins restrains the admirable continency of their sealed
20 1 | works, we should worthily admire the Artificer of such a
21 8 | with the apostle, as he admires both the Architect and His
22 29| Scriptures of the Lord, admonish us after these things to
23 11| For whatever principle be adopted on one or the other side,
24 8 | gives witness; whom angels adore, stars wonder at, seas bless,
25 8 | THE CHURCH HAS KNOWN AND ADORES; AND TO HIM THE TESTIMONY
26 1 | distributed all these things, both adorned and supplied with their
27 29| trained in Him and by Him to advance to immortality, by learning
28 5 | Him. But He is so for our advantage; for He is merciful even
29 15| He strongly refuted His adversaries by the example and witness
30 23| is gathered even from an adversary, so as to prove the truth
31 18| and after that offers her advice that she should humble herself;
32 29| filling the offices of advocacy, and manifesting the duties
33 23| since His authority has so affected some, that, as we have already
34 27| agreement, in love, and in affection; and because He is of the
35 29| links love, binds together affections, keeps down sects, orders
36 29| while the Holy Spirit dwelt affluently in Christ. For truly Isaiah,
37 14| the invocation of a man to afford salvation is condemned as
38 25| died for us, and was raised again--then Scripture teaches us
39 6 | truth." Thus the divine agencies are there exhibited by means
40 11| arranged, the King of all ages and times, the Prince of
41 29| who believe deserve to be aided by the defence of the Spirit,
42 31| the sound of the stricken air, or in the tone of voice
43 25| men, are manifested to be alive--for all they, says He, "
44 22| is chief and royal above all--the Son of God, the Word
45 31| would have given rise to the allegation of two Gods, as these people
46 24| one another of a mutual alliance--man and God by the truth
47 29| heavenly power, and to be allied with the divine eternity
48 8 | account of unbelief He has allotted. And lest moreover any one
49 9 | believe Him." Him, too, Isaiah alludes to: "There shall go forth
50 | almost
51 12| then, choose of the two alternatives, the one that they prefer,
52 28| eyes plucked out, he is altogether overcome in the blindness
53 27| what might dissolve all ambiguity, and quench all the controversy
54 29| none ever calleth Jesus anathema;" no one has ever denied
55 5 | And thus all those, either angers of God or hatreds, or whatever
56 5 | precedes them. For that God is angry, arises from no vice in
57 1 | plains, He has ordained the animal herds usefully for the various
58 17| according to its seed, that the animals should be produced, that
59 19| place of God, where thou anointedst for me there the standing
60 9 | of David. Genesis itself anticipates Him, when it says: "To thee
61 16| will have it, how shall not anybody who believes in Him die
62 29| the apostles gave them the appeal to the Gentiles. For the
63 7 | SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED BY THOSE APPELLATIONS.~But when the Lord says
64 18| God; and to Him also is applied the name of angel, since
65 4 | As with reason when He applies and prefers from certain
66 29| to the Church, and in the appointed occasions of times given.
67 1 | testifying by the variety of His appointment to the intelligence of the
68 19| force of the Mystery, and apprehending the authority of Him with
69 30| the light that no man can approach unto, whom no man hath seen,
70 2 | discourse set forth a power that approaches the level of His majesty.
71 10| fall into sin. But what approbation of law dost thou carry about
72 1 | and supplied with their appropriate and fitting instruments.
73 29| Spirit distributes, and appropriates to the Church, the spouse
74 23| This, however, we do not approve; but we quote it as an argument
75 30| Jesus Christ is the Father argue as follows:--If God is one,
76 4 | always has. For increasing argues beginning, as well as losses
77 1 | at the head of the world, arid man, too, made in the image
78 29| since they were henceforth armed and strengthened by the
79 19| been made safe. And the sun arose upon him. Afterwards he
80 | around
81 5 | consist, is accustomed to arouse the discord of anger which
82 27| Jewish ignorance had been aroused, so that hastily they ran
83 29| counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there
84 24| discloses the frauds and artifices of the heretics. For if
85 18| them bread baked on the ashes, with butter and abundance
86 30| the Lord Himself: "Why askest thou me concerning that
87 13| unless because when both aspects are considered, both truths
88 20| if "God standeth in the assembly of the gods, and in the
89 11| seem either to have given assent to other heretics, who in
90 15| rather He confirmed the assertion that He was God. For because,
91 22| IN CHRIST, HE ONCE MORE ASSERTS BY OTHER SCRIPTURES.~But
92 31| Father; for no time can be assigned to Him who is before all
93 15| But immortality is the associate of divinity, because both
94 5 | constructed assuredly of no associations of bodily parts. For He
95 30| place, we must turn the attack against them who undertake
96 20| well be believed to have attained the authority of that name?~
97 16| is read, destined for the attainment of everlasting life, Christ
98 6 | God, whose will the works attend not so much without any
99 7 | in their sins, He may be attested by this goodness of mercy
100 28| after the former, evidently attesting Him to be not the Father
101 3 | He, wishing moreover to attract to gentleness our minds,
102 16| let His proper divinity be attributed to Christ by the heretics.~
103 11| gathered from His powers avails to the result also of asserting
104 29| repels drunkenness, checks avarice, drives away luxurious revellings,
105 4 | especially when He is the avenger and judge of every evil
106 19| angel, that He should also avow Himself to be God, and should
107 1 | vault of heaven He has both awakened the light-bringing Sunrisings;
108 22| divine Word, reposing for awhile in taking upon itself humanity,
109 4 | that those things which bad not been at one time, learn
110 18| feet, he offers them bread baked on the ashes, with butter
111 3 | into ruins if it were not balanced with equal weights, He has
112 24| that distribution with his balances, but had left the matter
113 10| of divine law. Because in baptism and in the dissolution of
114 14| man, how comes John the Baptist to testify and say, "He
115 29| dove, when our Lord was baptized, came and abode upon Him,
116 26| Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood
117 15| return thither whence He bears witness that He came before,
118 8 | eternal life, a certain beautiful paradise in the east; He
119 | becoming
120 11| God the Father could not beget God the Son. But, moreover,
121 31| the Son, but the Father begetting from Himself another Son,
122 4 | had been, and consequently begins to be what it was not; and
123 31| Gods. If He had not been begotten--compared with Him who was
124 1 | for the pleasure of the beholders. Even in the sea itself,
125 2 | quickening all things, and beholding all things, and so linking
126 13| secrets of the heart, Christ beholds the secrets of the heart;
127 31| He would make two unborn beings, and thus would make two
128 19| cannot here be regarded as belonging to any other angel, that
129 26| possession?" Or when also that beloved writer says: The Lord said
130 8 | And, moreover, wheels lie below--that is to say, the seasons--
131 1 | signs, and seasons, and benefits of other kinds for the human
132 2 | than all wisdom, and more benignant than all kindness, better
133 22| Jesus every knee should be bent, of things in heaven, and
134 28| more fully; seeing that bereaved, in these two particulars,
135 29| in the latter liberally bestowed; not yet manifested before
136 2 | dissolved, for the purpose of bestowing other and greater things
137 4 | it, to which, while men betake themselves, they seem to
138 1 | so that when the raving billow and the foaming water should
139 24| both substances, by the binding to one another of a mutual
140 29| revellings, links love, binds together affections, keeps
141 19| sheep, and the she-goats are black and white, and many-coloured,
142 20| they who are reproved and blamed seem even for any reason
143 12| those who appear to maintain blasphemies of that kind ? unless because
144 15| hateful, and believed to be blasphemous, for that He had shown Himself
145 21| He before predicted in blessings: "He shall wash His garment
146 2 | more the mind itself is blinded by the light of its own
147 8 | winds arc compelled to blow, showers descend, seas arc
148 9 | moreover, when he described the blows and stripes of His scourgings: "
149 3 | says these things not for boastfulness of Himself, but for our
150 24| that substance of flesh and body--is not the Son of God primarily,
151 28| lots, and they numbered my bones: they pierced my hands and
152 31| For if He had not been born--compared with Him who was
153 31| equality being manifested in both--He would make two unborn
154 18| she went and filled the bottle from the well, and gave
155 9 | Thine inheritance, and the boundaries of the earth for Thy possession."
156 1 | unbridled liberty might not break forth even to a contempt
157 26| God also, other heretics, breaking forth, contrive to impair
158 1 | by a heavenly and divine breathing. And when He had given him
159 9 | raise up to you from your brethren; listen to Him as if to
160 13| bride-groom goeth forth from his bride-chamber; He exulted as a giant to
161 13| For He it is who "as a bride-groom goeth forth from his bride-chamber;
162 13| came down from heaven as a bridegroom to the flesh, that by the
163 2 | clearer than all light, and brighter than all brightness, more
164 2 | than all brightness, more brilliant than all splendour, stronger
165 2 | rather be speaking of and bringing out His power than speaking
166 19| him; and He touched the broad part of Jacob's thigh while
167 9 | heard in the streets; a bruised reed shall He not destroy,
168 9 | His scourgings: "By His bruises we were healed." Or His
169 3 | to gentleness our minds, brutish, and swelling, and stubborn
170 17| which the sons of men were building, asking and saying, "Come;"
171 10| is condemned, which was built up by the divine hands that
172 3 | weights, He has poised this burden of the earthly mass with
173 8 | captive young men to be burnt. And this is not without
174 2 | why should I make a long business of going through His attributes
175 18| baked on the ashes, with butter and abundance of milk itself,
176 29| this Spirit, "none ever calleth Jesus anathema;" no one
177 12| why do they shrink from calling Him Christ and God ? For
178 24| fulness, divests itself of the calumnies of these heretics, we easily
179 5 | but only where a material capable of impression precedes them,
180 1 | bosom of this world, however capacious as we have said, but might
181 4 | excluded from themselves the capacity of change, not having a
182 8 | the very garments of the captive young men to be burnt. And
183 1 | man might the rather be careful to observe the divine laws,
184 15| the Jews, holding that the carnal birth of Christ was the
185 10| approbation of law dost thou carry about with thee? What testimony
186 30| points concisely, without carrying them out in a lengthened
187 28| Upon my vesture they did cast lots, and they numbered
188 22| with its real strength, casts itself down, and puts itself
189 30| controversy of pure tradition and Catholic faith, being offended against
190 2 | reason, the naturally linked causes of things, so as to result
191 31| God proceeding from God, causing a person second to the Father
192 29| having their conscience cauterized." Established in this Spirit, "
193 4 | which is changed. For it ceases to be that which it had
194 29| name, neither dungeons nor chains, nay, even trod under foot
195 6 | ALTHOUGH SCRIPTURE OFTEN CHANGES THE DIVINE APPEARANCE INTO
196 31| taking from the Father that characteristic that He is one God. For
197 30| undertake to make against us the charge of saying that there are
198 20| is to say, consequently, charging the men of the synagogue
199 29| other gifts there are of charismata; and thus make the Lord'
200 29| continency of their sealed chastity; in others, guards the laws
201 29| impulses, repels drunkenness, checks avarice, drives away luxurious
202 8 | He also sitteth above the Cherubim; that is, He presides over
203 28| he said, "For unto us a child is born;" and although Mary
204 10| acknowledge that to the Christ who chose an ethereal or starry flesh,
205 23| the manifest divinity in Christ--that they thought that He
206 8 | individually, but also among cities themselves, and states whose
207 13| doubt, when in the last clause it is said, "The Word was
208 2 | deeper than all depth, and clearer than all light, and brighter
209 3 | creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by
210 24| that, while the Son of man cleaves in His nativity to the Son
211 2 | more merciful than all clemency? For all kinds of virtues
212 3 | swelling, and stubborn with cloddish ferocity, says, "And upon
213 1 | delights of the eyes, He has clothed all things with the various
214 8 | did not permit even the clothes of the Israelites to be
215 18| by the Scriptures to be Cod also. And this is believed
216 8 | nature concreted with the cold bodies might minister for
217 23| may be permitted also to collect arguments from the side
218 10| to a Christ feigned and coloured up from old wives' fables: "
219 1 | things with the various colours of the flowers for the pleasure
220 9 | He had neither form nor comeliness, a man in suffering, and
221 10| hope of resurrection? Why comest thou to another man's servant,
222 28| He will give you another Comforter." After which also He adds
223 9 | given Him for a Chief and a Commander to the nations. Nations
224 17| moreover, introduces God commanding that there should be light
225 21| to take it up; for this commandment I have received of my Father."
226 5 | and without any corporeal commixture, being wholly of that essence,
227 31| is again returned by the communion of substance to the Father.
228 31| FATHER'S GODHEAD IS GIVEN BY COMMUNITY OF SUBSTANCE.~Thus God the
229 21| a certain tunic of the compacted body. And therefore by consequence
230 18| received with hospitality in company with two angels, the heretics
231 1 | tracks to circle the entire compass of the world, so as to cause
232 10| the Lord? Why dost thou compel me to blaspheme, and to
233 18| on either side the truth compels us into this opinion, that
234 19| wives Leah and Rachel, Jacob complained of the injustice of their
235 11| may be true, being also complete. For if of two principles
236 2 | end by any ending of His completeness. And since everything that
237 19| an angel, he would have comprised the two persons in the plural
238 4 | prolonged by a vicarious concatenation to the condition of eternity;
239 1 | and not transgress its concealed bounds, but keep its prescribed
240 30| have laid down these points concisely, without carrying them out
241 6 | But things which are not concrete cannot be conscious of these
242 8 | things; and that this nature concreted with the cold bodies might
243 29| corrects the perverse, condemns infidels, makes known pretenders;
244 13| instructed in all the proofs and conditions of Christ's divinity, says
245 8 | stores of His mercy, by conferring His abundant Spirit on the
246 24| of the mystery, did not confuse every thing in such a way
247 10| such fables as these are confuted as well by the nativity
248 7 | changed in spirit, it may conjecture God to be something even
249 21| in Christ, and both are conjoined, and both are linked with
250 30| accustomed in such a way to connect their sophistries as to
251 24| that Christ Jesus the Lord, connected on both sides, so to speak,
252 19| indeed he held the man as a conqueror, though as an inferior he
253 29| quenches unlawful fires, conquers reckless impulses, repels
254 29| hypocrisy, having their conscience cauterized." Established
255 13| declared this word out of the consciousness of His divinity; and if,
256 29| divine generation, and a consecration of a heavenly nativity,
257 18| so that, if we will not consent to apprehend that it was
258 16| maintained, and before Him a considerable number of men was destined
259 25| So that, while from these considerations it is gathered that nothing
260 20| God, much more, and more consistently, shall Christ, to whom all
261 18| to Hagar herself greater consolations, in saying, "Fear not; for
262 12| and ye feeble knees; be consoled, ye that are cowardly in
263 18| Angel and God visits and consoles the same Hagar when driven
264 8 | command of God had been consolidated into a firmament from the
265 2 | world is so established by a conspiring union, that it can by no
266 29| martyrs shows forth the constant faithfulness of their religion;
267 21| receive it thus, they will be constrained to show that Christ the
268 5 | seeing that He is known to be constructed assuredly of no associations
269 12| am with you, even to the consummation of the world." Therefore
270 4 | than that whereby it is contained--He will cease to be God;
271 29| accused, because they had contemned the law; and they of the
272 13| Christ;" and if the same contends that he learned the Gospel
273 1 | the Artificer. And, not content with these things, est perchance
274 22| rule and will, He even was contented to take on Him the form
275 12| unless because in this contest against them concerning
276 29| restrains the admirable continency of their sealed chastity;
277 19| heavenly Scriptures, which continually say that He is both Angel
278 24| and that there is only the continuance of the name in the case
279 30| presented more diffusely and continued in a more expanded disputation,
280 28| shall we say when He also continues in these words: "I am the
281 26| heretics, breaking forth, contrive to impair the religious
282 8 | creatures which hold the control over the rest being subjected
283 3 | whereby nights and days are controlled, but might rather, as is
284 11| other way, by one being convicted to have lost belief in the
285 24| divine Scripture easily convicts and discloses the frauds
286 12| sufficient for us, that, being convinced in any kind of way, they
287 29| with His whole overflow copiously distributed and sent forth,
288 27| notwithstanding: for in writing to the Corinthians he said, "I have planted,
289 29| uncontaminated; destroys heretics, corrects the perverse, condemns infidels,
290 5 | the discord of anger which corrupts us; but this, whether of
291 29| of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges
292 11| weaknesses, but they do not count the powers as if they were
293 8 | providence has had or has its course among men, not only individually,
294 8 | the time at which He had covenanted that He would give Him,
295 8 | midst of the waters that covered the earth before, might
296 12| be consoled, ye that are cowardly in heart; be strong; fear
297 18| pitcher; and when the lad had cried out, and she had lifted
298 19| time, on account of the crime that it committed, hesitating
299 30| the Lord is, as it were, crucified between two thieves, even
300 18| come down on account of the cry of Sodom. in which place,
301 18| hearing the voice of the lad crying, He was rather God; is not
302 8 | subjected to His throne: a crystal covering being thrown over
303 16| both lays aside all risk of curse, and attains to the fruit
304 1 | tempered his punishment by cursing, not so much himself, as
305 13| Him." Moreover, this is I d which came unto His own,
306 18| things that are great are dangerous if they are sudden. For
307 23| honours above measure, have dared to announce or to think
308 10| which by the voluntary daring of man rebelled against
309 12| and the Holy One from the dark and dense mountain." Whom
310 8 | God are fiery, and are not darksome, but flourish. Or, moreover,
311 19| go, for the morning has dawned. And he said, I will not
312 19| with him a man even till daybreak. And He saw that He did
313 2 | time by feeling Himself debtor to none. Concerning Him,
314 15| He does not give, He is a deceiver; if He gives, He is God.
315 22| Father. He is--as we have declared--in the form of God the Father.
316 31| NOTHING WITHOUT HIS FATHER'S DECREE; AND THAT HE IS LORD, AND
317 8 | evil, gave a command, and decreed a judgment against sin;
318 3 | darkness;" that we might deem not that some Nature,--what
319 1 | water should come from its deep bosom, it should return
320 2 | higher than all height, and deeper than all depth, and clearer
321 5 | whether of nature or of defect, cannot subsist in God,
322 19| plural number; but now he defined the singular number of one
323 26| hast sent me?" Or when the definition of the rule is established
324 31| it is necessary--in some degree--that He should be before
325 1 | also provide for the very delights of the eyes, He has clothed
326 16| added this, nor did Christ deliver Himself to us as than only,
327 17| same rule of truth, and delivers to us in the beginning of
328 8 | Noe from the perils of the deluge, for the merit of His innocence
329 29| seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, who speak lies in hypocrisy,
330 16| who think so, but woe is denounced to them who add to, even
331 12| Holy One from the dark and dense mountain." Whom do they
332 11| Father, was only man, and denying to Him divine authority
333 24| these heretics, we easily depend upon that that is written,
334 19| thereby what He should be, and depicting even then in figure what
335 21| for man is never either deprived of nor invested with himself.
336 24| holds that as pledged and derived which of His own nature
337 18| place of his habitation, and describes his mode of life; yet Scripture
338 5 | wrath, and consider certain descriptions of His indignation, and
339 18| Abraham. For when in the desert she had exposed the infant,
340 28| reproved, and rightly, and deservedly indeed, because he has said, "
341 6 | not to God, because man's design would be ineffectual if
342 29| orphans, which was little desirable, and forsake them without
343 29| who restrains insatiable desires, controls immoderate lusts,
344 29| decrees. For this is He who "desireth against the flesh," because "
345 15| to believe Him to be God, desirous to overcome their incredulity
346 16| For in respect of that destination, Christ will be perceived
347 18| imperfection of the human destiny is nourished, led up, and
348 29| incorrupt and uncontaminated; destroys heretics, corrects the perverse,
349 8 | themselves, and states whose destructions have been announced by the
350 18| and urges them that, being detained as guests, they should eat.
351 31| does anything of His own determination; nor does He come from Himself,
352 25| died. But when Scripture determines, as we have frequently shown,
353 17| power of the New Testament detracted from, while its truth is
354 17| their tongues?" And yet in Deuteronomy we observe that God told
355 1 | benefit of human uses. He has developed the harvests into food.
356 10| fabulous body of heretical device. For all such fables as
357 4 | the very nature of things dictates. And that is infinite which
358 24| THINKING THAT THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SON OF GOD AND
359 1 | with its lower mass, has diffused the seas with their fluent
360 30| could be presented more diffusely and continued in a more
361 23| conceived it, they should diminish in Him the power of the
362 29| truth shall come, He will direct you into all the truth."
363 1 | tendency of his mind in either direction: whence, therefore, by envy,
364 1 | greatness of God's works in all directions, not shut up within the
365 2 | give our endeavours more directly to consider God, so much
366 29| Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and
367 31| Father, He could not make a disagreement in the divinity by the number
368 24| since no distinction is discerned between the Son of man and
369 1 | regions which are not now discernible by our eyes, He previously
370 29| on this account, He who discharges these offices is not different,
371 28| to follow Him, and be His disciple, should obtain the reward
372 29| out of necessity to the disciples; so as not to leave them
373 3 | Parent on account of His discipline--Him, I say, who "spake,
374 24| Scripture easily convicts and discloses the frauds and artifices
375 5 | accustomed to arouse the discord of anger which corrupts
376 2 | and so linking together discordant materials into the concord
377 1 | forth man's hope of future discovery and salvation in Christ.
378 29| does wonderful works, often discrimination of spirits, affords powers
379 28| open if we should desire to discuss that heretic more fully;
380 5 | are of this kind, being displayed for our medicine,--as the
381 8 | rightly we also are now disposed to exclaim with the apostle,
382 29| authority of the faith in the disposition of the words and in the
383 30| continued in a more expanded disputation, since the whole of the
384 19| the cause of so great a dispute as that, and so great a
385 27| this He added what might dissolve all ambiguity, and quench
386 25| destroy the soul, although it dissolves the bodies themselves: for
387 31| it may not appear by any dissonance or inequality of divinity
388 27| the Father," He severs and distinguishes the peculiarity of His,
389 20| gods, and in the midst God distinguisheth between the gods," and Christ
390 20| authority if the reading as distinguishing and judging between gods.
391 29| gifts which this same Spirit distributes, and appropriates to the
392 29| He is one and the same, distributing His offices according to
393 24| abounding in heavenly fulness, divests itself of the calumnies
394 12| the region of which local division looks towards the southern
395 30| the midst of the divine documents. For we both know, and read,
396 13| apostle "they be thrones or dominations, or powers, or mights, visible
397 14| invisible, thrones, powers, and dominions," said to be created by
398 1 | conscious of the anticipated dooms of fixture judgment; so
399 16| being man, because no one doubts His being man, and with
400 29| who, after the manner of a dove, when our Lord was baptized,
401 29| drunkenness, checks avarice, drives away luxurious revellings,
402 29| reckless impulses, repels drunkenness, checks avarice, drives
403 17| into one place, that the dry land should appear, that
404 2 | keenness of our eyes grows dull on looking at the sun, so
405 29| the Lord's name, neither dungeons nor chains, nay, even trod
406 29| advocacy, and manifesting the duties of our defence,--an inhabitant
407 3 | the earth, and those that dwell in it like locusts; who
408 30| only hath immortality, and dwelleth in the light that no man
409 10| a sharer in our body by dying according to the laws of
410 29| the Spirit, because they earnestly desire to attain to the ·
411 8 | beautiful paradise in the east; He planted the tree of
412 18| detained as guests, they should eat. And after I this he hears
413 16| being found to be in this economy less than Christ, and taking
414 18| is nourished, led up, and educated by Him; so that, being accustomed
415 29| given for our bodies and an effector of their holiness. Who,
416 29| is liberty." He it is who effects with water the second birth
417 6 | not so much without any effort, as that the works themselves
418 23| with such impetuosity and effusion--compelled to it by the manifest
419 6 | set free from the land of Egypt "with a mighty hand and
420 8 | He translated Enoch: He elected Abraham into the society
421 1 | should seize upon a foreign element at the expense of its human
422 | elsewhere
423 8 | which things, a fire of embers is in the midst, either
424 17| a place; and how does He embrace all things? Or does He say
425 23| other heretics have so far embraced the manifest divinity of
426 8 | without reason; for if He embraces all things, and contains
427 17| containing all things and embracing all things, so that with
428 22| there is present at once an eminent reward. For He has "received
429 13| without reason. "My heart has emitted a good word; " which word
430 27| PASSAGE WHICH THE HERETICS EMPLOYED IN DEFENCE OF THEIR OWN
431 22| which it has undertaken? It empties itself in descending to
432 6 | not contained within the enclosure of a tabernacle. Thus a
433 2 | declared, He can both be encompassed and contained. For whatever
434 11| both doctrines would be endangered in one and the other way,
435 7 | we have said, He is now endeavouring to give to His hearers religious
436 2 | proportion as we give our endeavours more directly to consider
437 6 | when the finger, a certain energy of His will is opened up;
438 29| THE AUTHORITY OF THE FAITH ENJOINS, AFTER THE FATHER AND THE
439 29| sacraments, who was in them the enlightener of divine things; and they
440 19| about to bless Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons of Joseph, with
441 13| evermore," writing in his epistles; and if the same apostle
442 31| begotten, and as being found equal--they not being begotten,
443 31| with Him who was unborn, an equality being manifested in both--
444 22| robbery, to wit, that of equalling Himself with God the Father;
445 3 | of the earthly mass with equity. Who says by the prophet, "
446 6 | people are permitted to erect a tabernacle, and yet God
447 24| THAT THESE HAVE THEREFORE ERRED, BY THINKING THAT THERE
448 24| written, and overcome those errors without any hesitation.
449 1 | that, although he might escape it by obedience, he rushes
450 13| flesh; when the flesh being espoused ascending thither, whence
451 5 | commixture, being wholly of that essence, which, whatever it be,--
452 31| is Father. Because it is essential that He who knows no beginning
453 1 | content with these things, est perchance the roaring and
454 16| Himself to God, that He might establish the formula of His divinity
455 20| assuredly much more shall He be esteemed God, who not only is said
456 16| who believes in Him die eternally, since he who trusts in
457 10| the Christ who chose an ethereal or starry flesh, as some
458 11| then lean to one side and evade the other side, because
459 13| especially when he considers the evangelical Scripture, that it has associated
460 12| themselves, they are on the eve of exalting Him as God,
461 19| who delivered me from all evils, bless these lads." Even
462 23| truth of this divinity, exaggerating His honours above measure,
463 12| they are on the eve of exalting Him as God, whether in wishing
464 25| whatever, the soul has this excellence of immortality that it cannot
465 23| Scriptures, is still a great and excellent argument for the divinity
466 21| is in Him something which excels the creature, the agreement
467 27| instance of great temerity and excessive madness to stir up a controversy
468 8 | also are now disposed to exclaim with the apostle, as he
469 9 | concerning His passion, he exclaims, saying: "As a sheep He
470 28| believing on the Son may be exercised in the contemplation of
471 22| itself humanity, and not exercising itself with its real strength,
472 5 | matter itself, in God cannot exert the force of corruptibility,
473 6 | divine agencies are there exhibited by means of members; it
474 25| also our Lord Himself said, exhorting us to martyrdom and to contempt
475 30| and continued in a more expanded disputation, since the whole
476 28| is indeed both wide and expansive would be laid open if we
477 9 | promised; and He shall be the expectation of the nations." He is spoken
478 10| that Christ was not to be expected in the Gospel in any other
479 3 | His judgment; as in Him expecting liberty when corruption
480 1 | a foreign element at the expense of its human possessor,
481 22| bearing abominations, in experiencing things unworthy; and yet
482 16| world. Neither let this be explained by predestination, since
483 24| of God and man. But now, explaining severally the ordinance
484 18| when in the desert she had exposed the infant, because the
485 21| special form of heresy, as to expound the rule of truth concerning
486 19| Him also both man and God, expressing thereby what He should be,
487 27| one masculine, because the expression is not referred to the number,
488 8 | His care will consequently extend even to every individual
489 31| is beheld to be given and extended. And still, nevertheless,
490 25| understood not to have been extinguished: for which reason they are
491 13| from his bride-chamber; He exulted as a giant to run his way.
492 29| God." Concerning Him he exultingly says: "And I think also
493 10| have worn any other kind of fabulous body of heretical device.
494 27| overcome them with equal facility. For if, as the heretics
495 7 | mind and nature of man have failed! Finally, if you receive
496 30| may be removed from our faith--contend, concerning the
497 30| believe this, since it is most faithful that Jesus Christ the Son
498 29| shows forth the constant faithfulness of their religion; in virgins
499 18| infant, because the water had fallen short from the pitcher;
500 8 | apostles, as founders of our family, to be sent by His Son into