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  1    Pre|         who denied the reality of Christ's flesh, or at least its
  2    Pre|           admitted the reality of Christ's flesh, they must also
  3      I|         the Resurrection, Deprive Christ of All Capacity for Such
  4      I|        for besetting the flesh of Christ also with doubtful questions,
  5      I|           be once determined that Christ's flesh was human, a presumption
  6      I|        which has already risen in Christ. Therefore we shall have
  7      I|           might deny the flesh of Christ, denied also His nativity,
  8      I|          represented the flesh of Christ to be imaginary was equally
  9      I|     pertaining to the nativity of Christ would escape the notice
 10     II|      Would Blot Out the Record of Christ's Nativity, is Rebuked for
 11     II|   announcement) did he bring down Christ from heaven. "Away," says
 12     II|       records (of the history) of Christ, that His flesh may lose
 13     II|           formed the opinion that Christ was not born.~
 14    III|                Chapter III.  ---- Christ's Nativity Both Possible
 15    III|          The Heretical Opinion of Christ's Apparent Flesh Deceptive
 16    III|          so much importance, that Christ should, when perfectly aware
 17    III|            of this faculty, as if Christ could not continue to be
 18    III|          in the same condition as Christ, then Christ will belong
 19    III|         condition as Christ, then Christ will belong to the same
 20    III|           angels do, who are like Christ in their condition. [8] 
 21     IV|  Inconsistent as Well as Impious. Christ Has Cleansed the Flesh.
 22     IV|           Church and the faith of Christ. But never mind, if you
 23     IV|  different from other people. [3] Christ, at any rate, has loved
 24     IV|   redeemed at so great a cost. If Christ is the Creator's Son, it
 25     IV|      listen to Marcion, than that Christ really became a man.~
 26      V|                  Chapter V.  ---- Christ Truly Lived and Died in
 27      V|          foolish (as the birth of Christ), which have reference to
 28      V|          away all sufferings from Christ, on the ground that, as
 29      V|         all that we hope for from Christ will be a phantom. O thou
 30      V|           of God! For nothing did Christ suffer from them, if He
 31      V|       will therefore be mortal in Christ, because Christ is man and
 32      V|         mortal in Christ, because Christ is man and the Son of man. [
 33      V|           of man. [6] Else why is Christ man and the Son of man,
 34      V|          Marcion's god. Otherwise Christ could not be described as
 35      V|           powers. Wherefore halve Christ with a lie? He was wholly
 36      V|      ought rather to have brought Christ down, not from heaven, but
 37     VI|          of Apelles Refuted, that Christ's Body Was of Sidereal Substance,
 38     VI| Correlative Circumstances, and in Christ's Case His Death Proves
 39     VI|         their teacher, concede to Christ real flesh, without effect,
 40     VI|           preach that the body of Christ was of solid flesh, but
 41     VI|   resistance. [3] They allow that Christ really had a body. Whence
 42     VI|       they set forth the flesh of Christ after the pattern of the
 43     VI|       compare the causes, both in Christ's case and that of the angels,
 44     VI|         came not) to be born. [6] Christ, however, having been sent
 45     VI|        being born. [7] Now, since Christ died owing to the condition
 46     VI|           you do not receive that Christ, who was even then rehearsing
 47     VI|         neither will the flesh of Christ get its origin therefrom,
 48    VII|           Support Their Denial of Christ's Nativity by It.~[1] But
 49    VII|          favour of the reality of Christ's flesh, wilfully deny that
 50    VII|        Now, since the nativity of Christ had never come into question,
 51    VII|          ground for thinking that Christ's answer denies His mother
 52    VII|         to me? " [11] And did not Christ, whilst preaching and manifesting
 53    VII|          who kept aloof from Him. Christ also is wont to do to the
 54    VII|       disciples who kept close to Christ within, hearing and believing,
 55   VIII|     Earthly Bodies, Attributed to Christ a Body of a Purer Sort.
 56   VIII|         Body of a Purer Sort. How Christ Was Heavenly Even in His
 57   VIII|        proving the human flesh of Christ by a defence of His birth. [
 58   VIII|          evil, and so unworthy of Christ; and because they on that
 59   VIII|            and will, and power of Christ for such operations, could
 60   VIII|         evil fruit." The flesh of Christ, therefore, if composed
 61   VIII|      which they disdain to clothe Christ with, because of its sinfulness, ----
 62   VIII|        let them either devise for Christ some substance of a purer
 63   VIII|         spirit of the second man, Christ. And so entirely does the
 64   VIII|     earthy flesh." [7] Now, since Christ is heavenly even in regard
 65   VIII|           who become heavenly, as Christ also was, carry about an "
 66   VIII|    affirmed by this fact is, that Christ Himself also was heavenly,
 67     IX|                 Chapter IX.  ---- Christ's Flesh Perfectly Natural,
 68     IX|         the earthy origin were in Christ; and it is they which obscured
 69     IX|         men, though amazed, owned Christ to be man. But if there
 70     IX|        little finger, the body of Christ, if it had been of an unusual
 71      X|        Refuted. They Alleged that Christ's Flesh Was of a Finer Texture,
 72      X|          affirm that the flesh of Christ is composed of soul, that
 73      X|           order to save the soul, Christ took a soul within Himself,
 74      X|          it as a main tenet, that Christ came forth not to deliver
 75      X|           now conclude that as in Christ the soul was not of flesh,
 76     XI|     Extravagance Exposed. That is Christ with a Soul Composed of
 77     XI|      Corporeal, Though Invisible. Christ's Soul, Like Ours, Distinct
 78     XI|         we raise the question why Christ, in assuming a flesh composed
 79     XI|             was made corporeal in Christ, in order that we might
 80     XI|           human flesh for it. [6] Christ, however, could not have
 81     XI|            Restore, therefore, to Christ, His faith; believe that
 82    XII|       True Functions of the Soul. Christ Assumed It in His Perfect
 83    XII|          with the Body Assured by Christ.~[1] Well, now, let it be
 84    XII|           it could have learnt of Christ except its own quality.
 85    XII|        own form that it learnt of Christ, but its salvation. For
 86    XII|          might discover itself in Christ, but Christ in itself. For
 87    XII|    discover itself in Christ, but Christ in itself. For its salvation
 88    XII|           found was manifested by Christ. But even this He did not
 89   XIII|               Chapter XIII.  ---- Christ's Human Nature. The Flesh
 90   XIII|      Therefore, also, the soul of Christ having become flesh, cannot
 91   XIII|     indivisible substance. But in Christ we find the soul and the
 92   XIII|          however, is that even by Christ Himself each substance has
 93   XIII|           would have only been in Christ the soul composed of flesh,
 94    XIV|                Chapter XIV.  ---- Christ Took Not on Him an Angelic
 95    XIV|          He Came to Save.~[1] But Christ, they say, bare (the nature
 96    XIV|        induced Him to become man? Christ, then, was actuated by the
 97    XIV|       cause, however, existed for Christ's taking on Him the nature
 98    XIV|           salvation of angels did Christ ever receive from the Father;
 99    XIV|           promised nor commanded, Christ could not have undertaken.
100    XIV|         Only it was never said by Christ, "And the angel, which spake
101    XIV|          indeed, was ever used by Christ that familiar phrase of
102     XV|        The Valentinian Figment of Christ's Flesh Being of a Spiritual
103     XV|      devise a spiritual flesh for Christ. Any one who refused to
104     XV|         not see of what substance Christ Himself spoke when He called
105     XV|           likewise says: "The man Christ Jesus is the one Mediator
106     XV|      human (when he says), "Jesus Christ was a man approved of God
107     XV|           testimony in proof that Christ had human flesh derived
108     XV|         substance was created for Christ, lest the Lord should be
109     XV|          the lower nature of that Christ who declares Himself to
110     XV|        risen again. Wait a while. Christ has not yet subdued His
111    XVI|                Chapter XVI.  ---- Christ's Flesh in Nature, the Same
112    XVI|            It is the Latter Which Christ Abolished. The Flesh of
113    XVI|          he will have us say that Christ put on flesh of an earthly
114    XVI|    suppose that the very flesh of Christ was in Himself abolished
115    XVI|        what has been abolished in Christ is not carnem peccati, "
116    XVI|     another sentence he says that Christ was "in the likeness of
117    XVI|      sinned, because the flesh of Christ, which committed no sin
118    XVI|          affirm that there was in Christ the same flesh as that whose
119    XVI|        been abolished, because in Christ that same flesh is maintained
120    XVI|      contribute to the purpose of Christ's abolishing sin in the
121    XVI|        say, if He took our flesh, Christ's was a sinful one. [5] 
122    XVI|     believe that our flesh was in Christ on the ground that it came
123  XXVII|         single point ---- Whether Christ received flesh from the
124  XXVII|          the name of Adam, why is Christ called Adam by the apostle,
125  XXVII|       Hence it was necessary that Christ should come forth for the
126 XXVIII|         must deny absolutely that Christ is man, and must maintain
127 XXVIII|           as you do not deny that Christ possesses the two substances,
128    XIX|                Chapter XIX.  ---- Christ, as to His Divine Nature,
129    XIX|           But by the Will of God. Christ's Divine Nature, of Its
130    XIX|        And very properly, because Christ is the Word of God, and
131     XX|                 Chapter XX.  ---- Christ Born of a Virgin, of Her
132     XX|         of Mary, of whom was born Christ." But Paul, too, silences
133     XX|        prophet. He sings to us of Christ, and through his voice Christ
134     XX|     Christ, and through his voice Christ indeed also sang concerning
135     XX|          Himself. [4] Hear, then, Christ the Lord speaking to God
136     XX|           what was the novelty of Christ's being born of a virgin.
137     XX|       from all pollutions through Christ, who was Himself a virgin,
138    XXI|      contend that the novelty (of Christ's birth) consisted in this,
139    XXI|     scripture which declares that Christ had a mother? For how could
140    XXI|       fruit of the womb ---- even Christ? [5] Now, since He is the
141    XXI|          son, who is called Jesus Christ, will not He also be the
142    XXI| well-known fact that the flesh of Christ is inseparable, not merely
143   XXII|         First Verse, Testifies to Christ's True Flesh. In Virtue
144   XXII|           the fleshly original of Christ, he thus begins his Gospel: "
145   XXII|           the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son
146   XXII|        descending to the birth of Christ, what else have we here
147   XXII|           and at last introducing Christ, ---- nay, producing Christ
148   XXII|       Christ, ---- nay, producing Christ Himself of the virgin? [
149   XXII|         as an apostle of the same Christ, also, he affirms that Christ "
150   XXII|     Christ, also, he affirms that Christ "was made of the seed of
151   XXII|  therefore, was His own likewise. Christ's flesh, then, is of David'
152   XXII|         apostle, when he declares Christ to be "the seed of Abraham."
153   XXII|         And to thy seed, which is Christ." [6] When we read and believe
154   XXII|        and can we, acknowledge in Christ? Surely none other than
155   XXII|       other than Abraham's, since Christ is "the seed of Abraham; "
156   XXII|         other than Jesse's, since Christ is the blossom of "the stem
157   XXII|         other than David's, since Christ is "the fruit of David's
158   XXII|          other than Mary's, since Christ came from Mary's womb; and,
159   XXII|          other than Adam's, since Christ is "the second Adam." The
160   XXII|         there might be derived to Christ the same condition of substance,
161   XXII|           allow that the flesh of Christ was not a spiritual one,
162  XXIII|   Gainsaying of the True Birth of Christ. One of the Heretics' Paradoxes
163  XXIII|           is that of the birth of Christ, according to Isaiah: "Therefore
164   XXIV|    Doctrine of the One Lord Jesus Christ, Both God and Man, Thus
165   XXIV|        antichrist who denies that Christ has come in the flesh. By
166   XXIV|          when it defines the very Christ to be but one, it shakes
167   XXIV|           who exhibit a multiform Christ, who make Christ to be one
168   XXIV|        multiform Christ, who make Christ to be one being and Jesus
169   XXIV|    sensation, like a sheath only, Christ being withdrawn from it;
170    XXV|           adduced of the flesh in Christ having both been born of
171    XXV|         showing what the flesh of Christ was, and whence it was derived,
172    XXV|           was which rose again in Christ.~ ~