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1 Pre| the reality of Christ's flesh, or at least its identity 2 Pre| its identity with human flesh ---- fearing that, if 3 Pre| the reality of Christ's flesh, they must also admit his 4 Pre| his resurrection in the flesh; and, consequently, the 5 I| a Change by Denying His Flesh.~[1] They who are so anxious 6 I| relation whatever to the flesh, have great cause for besetting 7 I| cause for besetting the flesh of Christ also with doubtful 8 I| altogether different from human flesh. For they cannot but be 9 I| determined that Christ's flesh was human, a presumption 10 I| opposition to them, that that flesh must by all means rise again, 11 I| all are agreed. It is His flesh that is in question. Its 12 I| order that he might deny the flesh of Christ, denied also His 13 I| nativity, or else he denied His flesh in order that he might deny 14 I| that His nativity and His flesh bore mutual testimony to 15 I| there is no nativity without flesh, and no flesh without nativity. [ 16 I| nativity without flesh, and no flesh without nativity. [3] As 17 I| although admitting the flesh, ---- like Apelles, who 18 I| while admitting both the flesh and the nativity, have interpreted 19 I| he who represented the flesh of Christ to be imaginary 20 I| grasp the full idea of His flesh. ~ 21 II| history) of Christ, that His flesh may lose the proofs of its 22 III| Opinion of Christ's Apparent Flesh Deceptive and Dishonourable 23 III| and endued with a body of flesh, on this ground, that a 24 III| angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, however, 25 IV| s Disparagement of Human Flesh Inconsistent as Well as 26 IV| Christ Has Cleansed the Flesh. The Foolishness of God 27 IV| blood, of the growth of the flesh for nine: months long out 28 IV| his nativity also, and his flesh as well. Nothing can be 29 IV| man; or else withdraw the flesh, and then present to our 30 IV| second birth from heaven; our flesh He restores from every harassing 31 V| Lived and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human 32 V| that He should bear the flesh, or the cross? be circumcised, 33 V| rise again? I mean this flesh suffused with blood, built 34 V| entwined with veins, a flesh which knew how to be born, 35 V| man is anything else than flesh, or man's flesh comes from 36 V| else than flesh, or man's flesh comes from any other source 37 V| described as being man without flesh, nor the Son of man without 38 V| of the Spirit and of the flesh. The powers of the Spirit, 39 V| sufferings attested the flesh of man. [8] If His powers 40 V| His sufferings without the flesh. if His flesh with its sufferings 41 V| without the flesh. if His flesh with its sufferings was 42 V| that He was bearing about a flesh hardened without bones, 43 V| myself, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me 44 V| possesses, but only the flesh. Howdo you interpret this 45 VI| concede to Christ real flesh, without effect, however, 46 VI| might have had, they say, a flesh which was not at all born. 47 VI| intercourse with) a woman, in the flesh, and afterwards shipwrecked 48 VI| body of Christ was of solid flesh, but without having been 49 VI| body, if His body were not flesh? Whence came His flesh, 50 VI| not flesh? Whence came His flesh, if it were not born? Inasmuch 51 VI| nativity in order to become flesh. He borrowed, they say, 52 VI| borrowed, they say, His flesh from the stars, and from 53 VI| amongst ourselves in the flesh without the intervention 54 VI| therefore, they set forth the flesh of Christ after the pattern 55 VI| to be not born, and yet flesh for all that, I should wish 56 VI| wherefore they came in the flesh. Never did any angel descend 57 VI| the cause why they assumed flesh without undergoing birth. 58 VI| being born, and yet in the flesh without doubt, in virtue 59 VI| race, in the habit of a flesh which as yet was not born, 60 VI| those angels derived their flesh from the stars. [9] If they 61 VI| written, neither will the flesh of Christ get its origin 62 VI| plain that the angels bore a flesh which was not naturally 63 VI| whence they obtained their flesh, it remains for us not to 64 VI| convert themselves into flesh have it in their power to 65 VI| convert nothing itself into flesh. It is a greater thing to 66 VI| that angels derived their flesh from some material substance, 67 VI| that even now a celestial flesh had fed on earthly aliments, 68 VI| the same way that earthly flesh actually fed on celestial 69 VI| condition of the Lord's flesh, because of His different 70 VI| should be clothed with that flesh to which death belongs. 71 VI| death belongs. Now that flesh to which death belongs is 72 VII| the reality of Christ's flesh, wilfully deny that God 73 VIII| Heavenly Even in His Earthly Flesh.~[1] These passages alone, 74 VIII| sufficient for proving the human flesh of Christ by a defence of 75 VIII| shameful condition of the flesh, which they will have to 76 VIII| bring forth evil fruit." The flesh of Christ, therefore, if 77 VIII| earthy" substance of the flesh of the first man, Adam, 78 VIII| the spirit and not to the flesh, that those whom it compares 79 VIII| even in this "earthy flesh." [7] Now, since Christ 80 VIII| heavenly even in regard to the flesh, they could not be compared 81 VIII| heavenly in reference to their flesh. If, then, they who become 82 VIII| an "earthy" substance of flesh, the conclusion which is 83 VIII| heavenly, but in an "earthy" flesh, even as they are who are 84 IX| Chapter IX. ---- Christ's Flesh Perfectly Natural, Like 85 IX| from the former by its flesh, from the latter by its 86 IX| blood but red fluid? what is flesh but earth in an especial 87 IX| within our bones as ores of flesh. [4] All these marks of 88 IX| proofs that His was an earthy flesh, as ours is; but anything 89 IX| been in Him any new kind of flesh miraculously obtained (from 90 IX| condition of His terrene flesh which made all things else 91 IX| sufferings attested His human flesh, the contumely proved its 92 IX| Why talk of a heavenly flesh, when you have no grounds 93 IX| trembles at death (for "the flesh," as He says, "is weak " ); 94 IX| had beamed forth in that flesh of His aught of celestial 95 X| They Alleged that Christ's Flesh Was of a Finer Texture, 96 X| conceit. They affirm that the flesh of Christ is composed of 97 X| soul, that His soul became flesh, so that His flesh is soul; 98 X| became flesh, so that His flesh is soul; and as His flesh 99 X| flesh is soul; and as His flesh is of soul, so is His soul 100 X| soul, so is His soul of flesh. But here, again, I must 101 X| in clothing Himself with flesh, He should have made that 102 X| He should have made that flesh one of soul, as if He could 103 X| other way than by making flesh of it. [2] For while He 104 X| which are not only not of flesh, but are even distinct from 105 X| but are even distinct from flesh, how much more able was 106 X| when it was also not of flesh? Again, since they assume 107 X| forth not to deliver the flesh, but only our soul, how 108 X| is certainly not one of flesh. However, it was not our 109 X| saved, if His own was of flesh; for ours is not of flesh. [ 110 X| flesh; for ours is not of flesh. [4] Now, if He did not 111 X| ground, that it was a soul of flesh which He saved, He is nothing 112 X| the supposition, a soul of flesh. But yet it is evident that 113 X| that it has been saved. Of flesh, therefore, it was not composed, 114 X| Christ the soul was not of flesh, so neither could His flesh 115 X| flesh, so neither could His flesh have possibly been composed 116 XI| with a Soul Composed of Flesh ---- Corporeal, Though Invisible. 117 XI| Like Ours, Distinct from Flesh, Though Clothed in It.~[ 118 XI| why Christ, in assuming a flesh composed of soul, should 119 XI| a soul that was made of flesh? For God, they say, desired 120 XI| of the obstacle of this flesh, so that it was even a matter 121 XI| possible, that by means of the flesh the soul should demonstrate 122 XI| exhibiting itself by the flesh, until the thing came into 123 XI| unknown, that is to say, the flesh? It received darkness, forsooth, 124 XI| by being converted into flesh. But even if the soul is, 125 XI| their maintenance of a human flesh for it. [6] Christ, however, 126 XI| condition, not making it of flesh, but clothing it with flesh.~ 127 XI| flesh, but clothing it with flesh.~ 128 XII| is made apparent by the flesh, on the assumption that 129 XII| was to rise again with the flesh. This is the truth which 130 XII| than in some Lazarus, whose flesh was no more composed of 131 XII| soul than his soul was of flesh. What further knowledge, 132 XII| to be made visible by the flesh? ~ 133 XIII| Christ's Human Nature. The Flesh and the Soul Both Fully 134 XIII| It.~[1] The soul became flesh that the soul might become 135 XIII| visible. Well, then, did the flesh likewise become soul that 136 XIII| likewise become soul that the flesh might be manifested? If 137 XIII| manifested? If the soul is flesh, it is no longer soul, but 138 XIII| it is no longer soul, but flesh. If the flesh is soul, it 139 XIII| soul, but flesh. If the flesh is soul, it is no longer 140 XIII| is soul, it is no longer flesh, but soul. Where, then, 141 XIII| soul. Where, then, there is flesh, and where there is soul, 142 XIII| the soul when we name the flesh, and when we indicate the 143 XIII| ourselves as meaning the flesh. [2] All things will be 144 XIII| of Christ having become flesh, cannot be anything else 145 XIII| therefore, it has become flesh, the soul is a uniform solid 146 XIII| we find the soul and the flesh expressed in simple un-figurative 147 XIII| is called soul, and the flesh, flesh; nowhere is the soul 148 XIII| called soul, and the flesh, flesh; nowhere is the soul termed 149 XIII| nowhere is the soul termed flesh, or the flesh, soul; and 150 XIII| soul termed flesh, or the flesh, soul; and yet they ought 151 XIII| soul by itself, and the flesh by itself." [5] "My soul," 152 XIII| bread that I will give is my flesh, (which I will give) for 153 XIII| Now, if the soul had been flesh, there would have only been 154 XIII| Christ the soul composed of flesh, or else the flesh composed 155 XIII| composed of flesh, or else the flesh composed of soul. Since, 156 XIII| the species distinct, the flesh and the soul, He shows them 157 XIII| soul is not composed of flesh, nor the flesh of soul. 158 XIII| composed of flesh, nor the flesh of soul. For the soul-flesh, 159 XIII| apart from that which was flesh, and bare about another 160 XIII| and bare about another flesh besides that which was soul. 161 XIII| But since He had but one flesh and one soul, ---- that " 162 XIII| even unto death," and that flesh which was the "bread given 163 XIV| having become man, with flesh and soul as the Son of man? 164 XV| Valentinian Figment of Christ's Flesh Being of a Spiritual Nature, 165 XV| consistently devise a spiritual flesh for Christ. Any one who 166 XV| refused to believe that that flesh was human might pretend 167 XV| proof that Christ had human flesh derived from man, and not 168 XV| spiritual, and that His flesh was not composed. of soul, 169 XV| it was not an imaginary flesh; (and no doubt they would 170 XV| are not formed of earthly flesh; whence, too, it would be 171 XV| be necessary that, if His flesh were like ours, it should 172 XV| incorruptible? Why, again, since His flesh has both risen and returned 173 XV| Or else, why does not His flesh, since it is like ours, 174 XV| else than death! But our flesh, too, ought immediately 175 XVI| Chapter XVI. ---- Christ's Flesh in Nature, the Same as Ours, 176 XVI| Which Christ Abolished. The Flesh of the First Adam, No Less 177 XVI| us say that Christ put on flesh of an earthly origin, in 178 XVI| own person abolish sinful flesh. Now, even if we did assert 179 XVI| us suppose that the very flesh of Christ was in Himself 180 XVI| carnem peccati, "sinful flesh," but peccatum carnis, " 181 XVI| peccatum carnis, "sin in the flesh," ---- not the material 182 XVI| He abolished sin in the flesh." [3] Now in another sentence 183 XVI| in the likeness of sinful flesh," not, however, as if He 184 XVI| Him "the likeness of the flesh," in the sense of a semblance 185 XVI| understand likeness to the flesh which sinned, because the 186 XVI| which sinned, because the flesh of Christ, which committed 187 XVI| there was in Christ the same flesh as that whose nature in 188 XVI| in man is sinful. In the flesh, therefore, we say that 189 XVI| because in Christ that same flesh is maintained without sin, 190 XVI| s abolishing sin in the flesh, if He did not abolish it 191 XVI| did not abolish it in that flesh in which was the nature 192 XVI| stain of sin in some better flesh, and one which should possess 193 XVI| you say, if He took our flesh, Christ's was a sinful one. [ 194 XVI| intelligible. For in putting on our flesh, He made it His own; in 195 XVI| refuse to believe that our flesh was in Christ on the ground 196 XVI| Adam himself received this flesh of ours without the seed 197 XVI| was converted into this flesh of ours without the seed 198 XVI| substance of the selfsame flesh, without a human father' 199 XXVII| the Derivation of Their Flesh. An Analogy Also Pleasantly 200 XXVII| Whether Christ received flesh from the virgin? ---- that 201 XXVII| a certain proof that His flesh was human, if He derived 202 XXVII| the human character of His flesh, from its name and description 203 XXVII| God was born, taking the flesh of an ancient race, without 204 XXVII| in other words, out of a flesh which was unstained as yet 205 XXVII| His own brother after the flesh, and the murderer of Himself. 206 XXVII| man, in that condition of flesh into which man had entered 207 XXVIII| He only wanted to assume flesh, of the flesh of man without 208 XXVIII| to assume flesh, of the flesh of man without the seed 209 XXVIII| short, since He is man's flesh with God's Spirit ---- 210 XXVIII| with God's Spirit ---- flesh (I say) without seed from 211 XXVIII| Word "say they, "was made flesh." [4] Now this very statement 212 XXVIII| what it was that was made flesh; nor can it possibly be 213 XXVIII| else than the Word was made flesh. Now, whether it was of 214 XXVIII| Now, whether it was of the flesh that the Word was made flesh, 215 XXVIII| flesh that the Word was made flesh, or whether it was so made 216 XXVIII| what it was that was made (flesh), and says nothing of that 217 XXVIII| itself, was the Word made flesh. [5] And if not from itself, 218 XXVIII| suppose that the Word became flesh than from that flesh in 219 XXVIII| became flesh than from that flesh in which it submitted to 220 XXVIII| that which is born of the flesh is flesh," even because 221 XXVIII| is born of the flesh is flesh," even because it is born 222 XXVIII| because it is born of the flesh. But if He here spoke of 223 XXVIII| substances, both of the flesh and of the Spirit. [7] Besides, 224 XXVIII| was in possession both of flesh and of Spirit, He cannot 225 XXVIII| was His own, but that the flesh was not His own. Forasmuch, 226 XXVIII| as He is also born of the flesh of man, being generated 227 XXVIII| being generated in the flesh as man. ~ 228 XIX| the Word of God, Became Flesh, Not by Carnal Conception, 229 XIX| Nor by the Will of the Flesh and of Man, But by the Will 230 XIX| nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, 231 XIX| nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, 232 XIX| and of the will of the flesh, and of man, as indeed is 233 XIX| else appertains to God. As flesh, however, He is not of blood, 234 XIX| nor of the will of the flesh, nor of man, because it 235 XIX| God that the Word was made flesh. [3] To the flesh, indeed, 236 XIX| was made flesh. [3] To the flesh, indeed, and not to the 237 XIX| as men, because it was as flesh that He had thus to be born, 238 XIX| born of the will of the flesh, how is it that it did not 239 XIX| of the substance of the flesh? For it did not disavow 240 XIX| disavow the substance of the flesh when it denied His being " 241 XIX| the will of man and of the flesh"), not His nativity from 242 XIX| nor of the will of the flesh, nor (of the will) of man, 243 XIX| if it were not that His flesh was such that no man could 244 XIX| that He was born of real flesh; it rather affirmed this, 245 XIX| not deny His birth in the flesh in the same way that it 246 XIX| purpose of partaking of flesh from the womb. For He could 247 XIX| could have become spiritual flesh without such a process, ---- 248 XIX| Therefore He received (flesh) therefrom; else, if He 249 XIX| especially if He meant to become flesh of that sort which was not 250 XX| statement, "The Word was made flesh," but he also asserted the 251 XX| asserted the reality of the flesh which was made of a virgin 252 XX| But if the Word was made flesh of Himself without any communication 253 XX| severance (by birth) of its own flesh from the mother's womb. [ 254 XX| Himself a virgin, even in the flesh, in that He was born of 255 XX| He was born of a virgin's flesh.~ 256 XXI| Word of God Did Not Become Flesh Except in the Virgin's Womb 257 XXI| as the Word of God became flesh without the seed of a human 258 XXI| father, so there should be no flesh of the virgin mother (assisting 259 XXI| confined to this, that His flesh, although not born of seed, 260 XXI| yet have proceeded from flesh? [2] I should like to go 261 XXI| other hand, the Word became flesh of Himself, then He both 262 XXI| the Word, is not her own flesh. But is this the only statement 263 XXI| a name as this a strange flesh ought not to assume. No 264 XXI| ought not to assume. No flesh can speak of a mother's 265 XXI| well-known fact that the flesh of Christ is inseparable, 266 XXI| of his posterity in the flesh, God swears to him that " 267 XXII| Testifies to Christ's True Flesh. In Virtue of Which He is 268 XXII| described than the very flesh of Abraham and of David 269 XXII| David, according to the flesh," ---- which, therefore, 270 XXII| His own likewise. Christ's flesh, then, is of David's seed. 271 XXII| in consequence of Mary's flesh, He is therefore of Mary' 272 XXII| He is therefore of Mary's flesh because of the seed of David. [ 273 XXII| statement, He is either of the flesh of Mary because of the seed 274 XXII| of David because of the flesh of Mary. The whole discussion 275 XXII| these things, what sort of flesh ought we, and can we, acknowledge 276 XXII| ancestors) had a spiritual flesh, that so there might be 277 XXII| or else allow that the flesh of Christ was not a spiritual 278 XXIII| produced offspring of her own flesh and "yet she did not bear," 279 XXIV| which is so called, and the flesh simply that which is confest 280 XXIV| nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, 281 XXIV| that Christ has come in the flesh. By declaring that His flesh 282 XXIV| flesh. By declaring that His flesh is simply and absolutely 283 XXIV| own also, only in another flesh. [4] Happily, however, He 284 XXIV| that is to say, His very flesh, against which they spent 285 XXIV| shame who affirm that His flesh sits in heaven void of sensation, 286 XXIV| who (maintain) that His flesh and soul are just the same 287 XXIV| that exists, but that His flesh no longer lives.~ 288 XXV| the Resurrection of the Flesh," Proving the Reality of 289 XXV| Proving the Reality of the Flesh Which Was Truly Born, and 290 XXV| has been adduced of the flesh in Christ having both been 291 XXV| have, by showing what the flesh of Christ was, and whence 292 XXV| objectors, of what that flesh was not. [2] The resurrection, 293 XXV| resurrection, however, of our own flesh will have to be maintained