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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
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