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Alphabetical [« »] saving 1 saviour 2 saw 1 say 35 saying 3 says 24 scanty 1 | Frequency [« »] 36 more 35 body 35 made 35 say 35 very 34 at 34 indeed | Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus On the flesh of Christ Concordances say |
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1 II| have the best reason to say) cease to live. [4] For 2 III| really does not exist. But, say you, His own consciousness ( 3 III| state and condition. But, say you, I deny that God was 4 III| however, have the courage to say this; for if it be so held 5 IV| nature? [7] But some one may say, "These are not the foolish 6 VI| He might have had, they say, a flesh which was not at 7 VI| flesh. He borrowed, they say, His flesh from the stars, 8 VI| substance. How much more, you say, is it (within their competence 9 IX| even to human beauty, to say nothing of heavenly glory. 10 XI| of flesh? For God, they say, desired to make the soul 11 XI| therefore (they further say), was made corporeal in 12 XI| was unknown, that is to say, the flesh? It received 13 XI| And yet, although they say that it is invisible, they 14 XII| sake of emphasis, I would say, "Animae anima sensus est" ---- " 15 XII| the very senses, not to say properties, of them all 16 XII| save the soul." He did not say, "to explain" it. We could 17 XIII| and the other, it is, to say the least, very absurd, 18 XIII| un-figurative terms; that is to say, the soul is called soul, 19 XIV| Save.~[1] But Christ, they say, bare (the nature of) an 20 XIV| I may, then, more easily say, if such an expression is 21 XIV| formula, "Verily, verily, I say unto you." What need is 22 XVI| against us; he will have us say that Christ put on flesh 23 XVI| as impossible for us to say that it is abolished, as 24 XVI| the flesh, therefore, we say that sin has been abolished, 25 XVI| sinless, nature! Then, you say, if He took our flesh, Christ' 26 XXVIII| Father's seed, that is to say, the Spirit ---- [2] might 27 XXVIII| s Spirit ---- flesh (I say) without seed from man, 28 XXVIII| from God, for "the Word "say they, "was made flesh." [ 29 XIX| from a womb, that is to say, a spiritual one. ~ 30 XX| the Holy Scriptures! You say that He was born through 31 XX| of blood also, that is to say, the severance (by birth) 32 XXI| without reason does she say, "and whence is this to 33 XXI| David's loins," that is to say, of his posterity in the 34 XXIII| concerning which these sophists say: "She a virgin and yet not 35 XXIV| acknowledge Him; that is to say, His very flesh, against