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  1    III|   Deceptive and Dishonourable to God, Even on Marcion's Principles.~[
  2    III|        was either impossible for God, or unbecoming to Him. With
  3    III|          unbecoming to Him. With God, however, nothing is impossible
  4    III|        argument very briefly. If God had willed not to be born,
  5    III|      that he had been born? What God therefore willed not to
  6    III|          would have ceased to be God, losing what He was, while
  7    III|    becoming what He was not. For God is in no danger of losing
  8    III|        But, say you, I deny that God was truly changed to man
  9    III|        But nothing is equal with God; His nature is different
 10    III|         things which differ from God, and from which God differs,
 11    III|         from God, and from which God differs, lose what existence
 12    III|             in other words, that God can be changed into all
 13    III|    angels, which are inferior to God, after they have been changed
 14    III|     angels? and will you deprive God, their superior, of this
 15    III|         could not continue to be God, after His real assumption
 16    III|          will belong to the same God as those angels do, who
 17     IV|                Chapter IV.  ---- God's Honour in the Incarnation
 18     IV|        Flesh. The Foolishness of God is Most Wise.~[1] Since,
 19     IV|    hazardous to the character of God, it remains for you to repudiate
 20     IV|         if He comes from another god, His love was excessive,
 21     IV|          our view the being whom God has redeemed ---- since
 22     IV|          constitute the man whom God has redeemed. And are you
 23     IV|          This is disgraceful for God, and this is unworthy of
 24     IV|        is unworthy of the Son of God, and simply foolish." For
 25     IV|      foolish, if we are to judge God by our own conceptions.
 26     IV|         you have not erased it: "God hath chosen the foolish
 27     IV|          the worship of the true God, the rejection of error,
 28     IV|       foolish" as believing in a God that has been born, and
 29     IV|       must be other things which God has chosen to confound the
 30      V|   humiliations and sufferings of God. Or else, let them call
 31      V|        let them call a crucified God "wisdom." But Marcion will
 32      V|        which is more unworthy of God, which is more likely to
 33      V|     raise a blush of shame, that God should be born, or that
 34      V| believing" the foolish things of God." [2] Have you, then, cut
 35      V|       that murder truth: Was not God really crucified? And, having
 36      V|       all guilt the murderers of God! For nothing did Christ
 37      V|        Whatsoever is unworthy of God, is of gain to me. I am
 38      V|    contempt of shame. The Son of God was crucified; I am not
 39      V|    ashamed of it. And the Son of God died; it is by all means
 40      V|    Marcion's man is as Marcion's god. Otherwise Christ could
 41      V|        parent; just as He is not God without the Spirit of God,
 42      V|        God without the Spirit of God, nor the Son of God without
 43      V|    Spirit of God, nor the Son of God without having God for His
 44      V|        Son of God without having God for His father. [7] Thus
 45      V|         displayed Him as man and God, ---- in one respect born,
 46      V|         Spirit, proved Him to be God, His sufferings attested
 47      V|          from the most excellent God, who is both simple and
 48      V|     troop of mountebanks, not as God besides man, but simply
 49     VI|      Moses, who has rejected the God of Moses? Since the God
 50     VI|          God of Moses? Since the God is a different one, everything
 51     VI|       use the Scriptures of that God whose world they also enjoy.
 52    VII|        flesh, wilfully deny that God Himself was born, on the
 53    VII|         preaching the kingdom of God and actively engaged in
 54    VII|        preaching and manifesting God, fulfilling the law and
 55    VII|         listened to the word (of God) ---- He points out in what
 56    VII|         as highly as the word of God, He were Himself to leave
 57    VII|     Himself to leave the word of God as soon as His mother and
 58    VII|         us to deny ours ---- for God's work. But there is also
 59    VII|     blessed who hear the word of God." ~
 60     IX|       obscured Him as the Son of God, for He was looked on as
 61     XI|      that was made of flesh? For God, they say, desired to make
 62     XI|       these flaws is suitable to God. (But as the case stands
 63     XI|          not beyond the power of God ---- indeed it would be
 64    XII|         it learns anything about God, it names the name of God.
 65    XII|        God, it names the name of God. Before it acquires any
 66    XII|   professes to commend itself to God. There is nothing one oftener
 67    XII|        this cause did the Son of God descend and take on Him
 68    XII|       itself, but of the word of God. [7] "The life," says He, "
 69    XIV| salvation of man? [3] The Son of God, in sooth, was not competent
 70    XIV|          then, no longer but one God, but one Saviour, if there
 71    XIV|        of man? As "the Spirit of God." however, and "the Power
 72    XIV|    angels, ---- He who is verily God, and the Son of God? [5] 
 73    XIV|       verily God, and the Son of God? [5] Well, but as bearing
 74    XIV|          and not also the Son of God; although He is, to be sure,
 75     XV|         the one Mediator between God and man." Also Peter, in
 76     XV|     Christ was a man approved of God among you." [2] These passages
 77     XV|        not of the Spirit, nor of God, but of the will of man.
 78     XV|      bandy about. Was the Son of God reduced to such a depth
 79    XVI|          possible for the Son of God to take to Himself the substance
 80  XXVII|         there was for the Son of God's being born of a virgin.
 81  XXVII|     conceive and bear "Emmanuel, God with us." [3] This is the
 82  XXVII|       nativity; a man is born in God. And in this man God was
 83  XXVII|          in God. And in this man God was born, taking the flesh
 84  XXVII|   furrows, when, as we are told, God made man out of it into
 85  XXVII|       has told us, was formed by God into a quickening spirit
 86  XXVII|          contrary operation that God recovered His own image
 87  XXVII|          introduced that Word of God which was to raise the fabric
 88  XXVII|         the murderer of Himself. God therefore sent down into
 89 XXVIII|          not fit that the Son of God should be born of a human
 90 XXVIII|       fail to be also the Son of God, and have nothing more than "
 91 XXVIII|       who was already the Son of God ---- of God the Father's
 92 XXVIII|   already the Son of God ---- of God the Father's seed, that
 93 XXVIII|          One who had the seed of God. As, then, before His birth
 94 XXVIII|      virgin, He was able to have God for His Father without a
 95 XXVIII|           3] He is thus man with God, in short, since He is man'
 96 XXVIII|     since He is man's flesh with God's Spirit  ---- flesh (I
 97 XXVIII|       man, Spirit with seed from God. For as much, then, as the
 98 XXVIII|           as the dispensation of God's purpose concerning His
 99 XXVIII|          else which He took from God, for "the Word "say they, "
100 XXVIII|       Spirit is spirit," because God is a Spirit, and He was
101 XXVIII|       Spirit, and He was born of God. [6] Now this description
102 XXVIII|        He is of the Spirit He is God the Spirit, and is born
103 XXVIII|       the Spirit, and is born of God; just as He is also born
104    XIX|    Divine Nature, as the Word of God, Became Flesh, Not by Carnal
105    XIX|          Man, But by the Will of God. Christ's Divine Nature,
106    XIX|          the will of man, but of God? " I shall make more use
107    XIX|          the will of man, but of God," as if designating those
108    XIX|        the Lord, "He was born of God." And very properly, because
109    XIX|    because Christ is the Word of God, and with the Word the Spirit
110    XIX|      with the Word the Spirit of God, and by the Spirit the Power
111    XIX|          the Spirit the Power of God, and whatsoever else appertains
112    XIX|    whatsoever else appertains to God. As flesh, however, He is
113    XIX|    because it was by the will of God that the Word was made flesh. [
114    XIX|       tell me, why the Spirit of God descended into a woman's
115     XX|     these critics when he says, "God sent forth His Son, made
116     XX|      Christ the Lord speaking to God the Father: "Thou art He
117     XX|      another point. "Thou art my God from my mother's belly."
118    XXI|   Chapter XXI.  ---- The Word of God Did Not Become Flesh Except
119    XXI|        this, that as the Word of God became flesh without the
120    XXI|         what? I ask. The Word of God, of course, and not the
121    XXI|          posterity in the flesh, God swears to him that "He will
122  XXIII|       really holy but the Son of God? Who properly opened the
123  XXIII|         declared that the Son of God was born not of a virgin,
124   XXIV|          Lord Jesus Christ, Both God and Man, Thus Condemned.~[
125   XXIV|          confest to our view and God none other than the One
126   XXIV|   prophetic view, he says, "I am God, and there is none else;
127   XXIV|        is none else; there is no God beside me." And when in
128   XXIV|           Before me there was no God," he strikes at those inexplicable
129   XXIV|          the will of man, but of God." In like manner, in the