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   1     IX|                the contumely proved its abject condition. [7] Would any
   2     IX|              had not invited it (by its abjectness)? Why talk of a heavenly
   3    VII|                view of the case: in the abjured mother there is a figure
   4    XVI|                 the purpose of Christ's abolishing sin in the flesh, if He
   5    VII|         doubtfulness, falls upon one so abruptly, as not to be preceded by
   6  XXIII|              was "a virgin," so far as (abstinence) from a husband went, and "
   7    XXV|                and this we have done ex abundanti; so that we have, by showing
   8      V|                of all, as well as their access to and contact with Him!
   9     IV|                the embarrassments which accompany it from the womb; you likewise,
  10    XIX|               Divine Nature, of Its Own Accord, Descended into the Virgin'
  11  XXVII|               conceive and bear a son." Accordingly, a virgin did conceive and
  12     XI|               that part of it which was accounted invisible, visible; because
  13    XIX|            indeed, and not to the Word, accrues the denial of the nativity
  14    XIX|                insisted on with such an accumulation of emphasis that He was
  15     VI|           preached unto you, let him be accursed." To the arguments, however,
  16      V|               most infamous of men, who acquittest of all guilt the murderers
  17     IX|               it was from His words and actions only, from His teaching
  18    VII|        preaching the kingdom of God and actively engaged in healing infirmities
  19     XV|                man." Also Peter, in the Acts of the Apostles, speaks
  20     XX|               only effect the change by actual possession of the proper
  21    XIV|           become man? Christ, then, was actuated by the motive which led
  22 XXVIII|              divide their relation, and adapt this to Him, and the previous
  23    XVI|               caution, however, must be addressed to all who refuse to believe
  24    XXV|              time proof enough has been adduced of the flesh in Christ having
  25     XI|              mind on making, without an adequate cause, a visible soul instead
  26    VII|                evidence of His mother's adherence to Him, although the Marthas
  27     XX|                 if it be not that which adheres, that which is firmly fastened
  28    VII|                  because those who were admiring His doctrine said that His
  29   VIII|               for all repentance is the admission of fault, nor has it indeed
  30    Pre|                   fearing that, if they admitted the reality of Christ's
  31    VII|                For in whatever sense He adopted as His own those who adhered
  32    VII|                 I do not admit what you advance of your own apart from Scripture. [
  33    XXI|               the blossom every product advances from its rudimental condition
  34   XXIV|          genealogies of the Valentinian Aeons. Again, there is an answer
  35  XXIII|            reasoning which the heretics affect: in other words it does
  36     XX|              time than when the womb is affected with pregnancy, when the
  37   XXII|               the same Christ, also, he affirms that Christ "was made of
  38      I|              because, of course, he was afraid that His nativity and His
  39    VII|          darkness of the long preceding age, justly employ this same
  40    XVI|                without a human father's agency. ~
  41      I|                spiritual nature all are agreed. It is His flesh that is
  42    XIV|                s help? If by an angel's aid, why come Himself also?
  43     VI|          quality that it fed on earthly ailments. Suppose that even now a
  44    VII|                 yet no temptation, when aiming at the discovery of the
  45   XXIV|               own nature, the Scripture aims a blow at all who make distinctions
  46      V|             equal truth of both natures alike, with the same belief both
  47      X|               of Heretics Refuted. They Alleged that Christ's Flesh Was
  48    VII|              deny as His those who kept aloof from Him. Christ also is
  49      I|              all, or possessed a nature altogether different from human flesh.
  50       | always
  51     IX|                solely, that men, though amazed, owned Christ to be man.
  52  XXVII|           Derivation of Their Flesh. An Analogy Also Pleasantly Traced Between
  53   XXIV|           preached unto you, let him be anathema," he calls attention to
  54    XXI|                Descended from Her Great Ancestor David. He is Described Both
  55   XXII|            either maintain, that those (ancestors) had a spiritual flesh,
  56    XII|          emphasis, I would say, "Animae anima sensus est" ---- "Sense
  57    XII|                 emphasis, I would say, "Animae anima sensus est" ---- "
  58      X|                 Was of a Finer Texture, Animalis, Composed of Soul.~[1] I
  59    XIV|                of nature. For He had to announce to the world the mighty
  60     IV| swaddling-clothes, graced with repeated anointing, smiled on with nurse's
  61     VI|                 was ---- nay, it was an antecedent necessity ---- that He must
  62   XXIV|               Apelles. [3] Surely he is antichrist who denies that Christ has
  63      I|              Flesh.~[1] They who are so anxious to shake that belief in
  64     IV|                what fashion do you love anybody? Yourself, of course, you
  65    XXV|                the Scriptures which are appealed to, and this we have done
  66   XXIV|                detained by them; one as appearing on a solitary mountain to
  67    XIX|                God, and whatsoever else appertains to God. As flesh, however,
  68      V|                 of skin, hungry without appetite, eating without teeth, speaking
  69  XXIII|                Should Be Contradicted," Applied to the Heretical Gainsaying
  70  XXVII|                  which he so perversely applies in his discussions, as well
  71   XIII|               in names secures the safe appreciation of properties. When these
  72    III|                  You cannot express any apprehension that, if He had been born
  73      I|                  For they cannot but be apprehensive that, if it be once determined
  74    XXV|               will pave the way for the approaching subject now that it is plain
  75    XIX|                and spiritual which they appropriate to themselves. [2] But how
  76     XV|                  Jesus Christ was a man approved of God among you." [2] These
  77    III|              the competency of your own arbitrary choice, you must needs have
  78      I|           presumption would immediately arise in opposition to them, that
  79    VII|                  But whenever a dispute arises about the nativity, all
  80      I|              resurrection from the same armoury, whence they get their weapons
  81  XXVII|           virgin? ---- that we may thus arrive at a certain proof that
  82   XXIV|               he calls attention to the artful influence of Philumene,
  83     XI|                it could not possibly be ascertained that it would offer this
  84     IX|             Features Which the Heretics Ascribed to It Discoverable, on a
  85    XVI|              extravagant folly which he ascribes to us in making us suppose
  86    VII|             born, on the ground that He asked, "Who is my mother, and
  87   XXIV|        Prophetical Scripture. Those Who Assail the True Doctrine of the
  88    XIV|                2] For although there is assigned to angels also perdition
  89    XXI|             flesh of the virgin mother (assisting in the transaction), why
  90     XI|                 question why Christ, in assuming a flesh composed of soul,
  91  XXVII|                  which, with consummate assurance, he interpolates as the
  92    XII|              Resurrection with the Body Assured by Christ.~[1] Well, now,
  93     VI|               nativity is nothing to be astonished at, because it has been
  94     XX|              shifts you resort, in your attempt to rob the syllable ex (
  95     XX|             point. Now let us carefully attend to the sense of these passages. [
  96    VII|            other Marys were in constant attendance on Him. In this very passage
  97    III|              His which you on your side attribute to His confidence of being
  98     IX|              forth in that flesh of His aught of celestial excellence?
  99     II|             already in another treatise availed ourselves more fully of
 100    XVI|              but its flaw; and (this we aver) on the authority of the
 101    XVI|             such a way as completely to avoid the extravagant folly which
 102    III|                the return of the Spirit back to heaven, and similarly
 103   XIII|                as their names indicate. Baked clay, for instance, receives
 104     XV|              heathen used constantly to bandy about. Was the Son of God
 105     IX|                 described, if there had beamed forth in that flesh of His
 106 XXVIII|             substances which He Himself bears, be supposed to have determined
 107     IV|             invested with the body of a beast either wild or tame, your
 108     IX|                 not reach even to human beauty, to say nothing of heavenly
 109     XX|           Abraham to Mary, says, "Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary,
 110     XX|                 my God from my mother's belly." Here is a third point.
 111    III|                Christ, then Christ will belong to the same God as those
 112     IV|                 He redeemed a being who belonged to another. Well, then,
 113      I|             flesh, have great cause for besetting the flesh of Christ also
 114       | beside
 115     IX|               very contumely He endured bespeak it all. The sufferings attested
 116     II|                 tongue, lest she should bewitch the child." After such a
 117       | beyond
 118     VI|                 they maintain their own blasphemies from examples derived from
 119   XXII|                  unfolding the promised blessing upon all nations in the
 120     IV|          cleanses it of the stain; when blind, He rekindles its light;
 121      V|                  solid without muscles, bloody without blood, clothed without
 122     II|               Marcion, the hardihood of blotting out the original records (
 123   XXIV|            nature, the Scripture aims a blow at all who make distinctions
 124     IV|            conditions into occasions of blushing to the very creature whom
 125   XXII|                 begins his Gospel: "The book of the generation of Jesus
 126    III|               human form, and have even borne about so veritable a body,
 127     VI|               holds to a different rule borrows materials for its own arguments
 128   VIII|               is suitable for Him, I am bound to refute them on their
 129     IX|          propagations of roots, and the branching courses of the veins as
 130   XIII|          instance, receives the name of brick. It retains not the name
 131    III|                 I put the argument very briefly. If God had willed not to
 132     II|            prophet, Isaiah? He will not brook delay, since suddenly (without
 133    VII|         preferable sense and a worthier brotherhood, with the repudiation of
 134  XXVII|               into her ear which was to build the edifice of death. Into
 135      V|              flesh suffused with blood, built up with bones, interwoven
 136     IV|           believe that Jupiter became a bull or a swan, if we listen
 137     II|                into the temple, lest he burden his parents with the expense
 138    VII|               either of sickness, or of business, or a journey which He was
 139     II|               eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar, and the scanty inn, and
 140   XXIV|                let him be anathema," he calls attention to the artful
 141      I|     Resurrection, Deprive Christ of All Capacity for Such a Change by Denying
 142    XII|             human being, only that of a carcase. If, then, we are ignorant
 143     IX|                to It Discoverable, on a Careful View.~[1] We have thus far
 144     XX|                 third point. Now let us carefully attend to the sense of these
 145    VII|             supposed father, Joseph the carpenter, and His mother Mary, and
 146     XX|                is drawn off from it, it carries with it some part of the
 147   VIII|           heavenly, as Christ also was, carry about an "earthy" substance
 148    XXI|               be silent although she is carrying in her womb the prophetic
 149  XXIII|             which opens the womb in all cases. The virgin's womb, therefore,
 150  XXIII|          Paradoxes Turned in Support of Catholic Truth.~[1] We acknowledge,
 151    XVI|              made it sinless. A word of caution, however, must be addressed
 152    VII|                 Brethren. Answer to the Cavils of Apelles and Marcion,
 153     II|                 the best reason to say) cease to live. [4] For indeed
 154    VII|               deny their existence, but censures their faults. [12] Besides,
 155     IV|         creature whom He has redeemed, (censuring them), too, us unworthy
 156     IX|                 Hyades. Well, then, the characteristics which we have enumerated
 157    XIV|              never promised to them. No charge about the salvation of angels
 158    VII|               wager on a foot race or a chariot race, and were called away
 159     IV|              training in righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence?
 160      V|                 good? See how He rather cheats, and deceives, and juggles
 161    XIX|               woman's blood. [4] In the cheese, it is from the coagulation
 162   VIII|             Marcion seem to place their chief reliance when interpreted
 163      I|          conception, and pregnancy, and child-bearing, and then the whole course
 164    III|        competency of your own arbitrary choice, you must needs have supposed
 165      V|               truth. [9] Believe me, He chose rather to be born, than
 166   XXII|             Matthew, that most faithful chronicler of the Gospel, because the
 167      V|                 flesh, or the cross? be circumcised, or be crucified? be cradled,
 168     II|                Spare also the babe from circumcision, that he may escape the
 169     XX|                is, however, a fortunate circumstance that Matthew also, when
 170 XXVIII|                to Him, and the previous clause to all other men, especially
 171  XXVII|                 a spiritual manner, and cleanse it by the re-moval of all
 172     IV|                malady; when leprous, He cleanses it of the stain; when blind,
 173  XXVII|              are at once furnished with clear evidences of the human character
 174     IX|                       of the muscles as clods; of the bones as stones;
 175    XXI|                I should like to go more closely into this discussion. "Behold,"
 176   VIII|         substance which they disdain to clothe Christ with, because of
 177   XXIV|                 clothed with glory in a cloud, the other as an ordinary
 178     XV|                   and Daniel: "Upon the clouds (He came) as the Son of
 179  XXIII|                by virtue of a husband's co-operation or not; it was the same
 180    XIX|              the cheese, it is from the coagulation that the milky substance
 181    XIX|        convected by ebullition into the coagulum of the woman's blood. [4] 
 182      V|            crucified? be cradled, or be coffined? be laid in a manger, or
 183    XIX|             denying His birth from such cohabitation, the passage did not deny
 184     XV|               who also had "no form nor comeliness, but His form was ignoble,
 185  XXIII|           whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." She who bare (
 186    XIV|             Father neither promised nor commanded, Christ could not have undertaken.
 187    XII|               judgment, it professes to commend itself to God. There is
 188    XVI|              the flesh of Christ, which committed no sin itself, resembled
 189     XX|            flesh of Himself without any communication with a womb, no mother's
 190   XXII|                 the Gospel, because the companion of the Lord; for no other
 191   XXIV|              solitary mountain to three companions, clothed with glory in a
 192     XV|                 to triumph over them in company with His friends.~
 193     VI|             that, I should wish them to compare the causes, both in Christ'
 194   VIII|                flesh, they could not be compared to Him, who are not heavenly
 195   VIII|               flesh, that those whom it compares to Him evidently become
 196     VI|               of the heretic of Pontus, compelled to be wiser than their teacher,
 197    VII|          preceded by the question which compels the temptation whilst raising
 198    III|                that this lay within the competency of your own arbitrary choice,
 199    XIV|               of God, in sooth, was not competent alone to deliver man, whom
 200     II|                 once believed, you have completed the act of rejection, by
 201    XVI|              defend it in such a way as completely to avoid the extravagant
 202     VI|               wiser than their teacher, concede to Christ real flesh, without
 203      X|               equally wise in their own conceit. They affirm that the flesh
 204     IV|                 to judge God by our own conceptions. But, Marcion, consider
 205      X|             damnation. We therefore now conclude that as in Christ the soul
 206     IV|             within the womb, the filthy concretion of fluid and blood, of the
 207  XXVII|              had entered ever since his condemnation. ~
 208   XXIV|                  Both God and Man, Thus Condemned.~[1] For when Isaiah hurls
 209    XVI|            nature of sin, nor (would it conduce) to His glory. For surely
 210   XXIV|              flesh simply that which is confest to our view and God none
 211    III|              your side attribute to His confidence of being able to sustain,
 212  XXVII|              respectable author, let us confine our inquiry to a single
 213    XXI|               not the novelty rather be confined to this, that His flesh,
 214     XX|              saying "made," he not only confirmed the statement, "The Word
 215   XIII|         separately mentioned by itself, conformably of course, to the distinction
 216   XIII|                ought to have been thus (confusedly) named if such had been
 217    Pre|                written by our author in confutation of certain heretics who
 218      V|               our salvation, but as the conjurer in a show; not as the raiser
 219    XXI|                 babe, which was already conscious of his Lord, and is, moreover,
 220  XXVII|             virgin. He who was going to consecrate a new order of birth, must
 221    Pre|         resurrection in the flesh; and, consequently, the resurrection of the
 222     IV|                rather to be honoured in consideration of that peril, or to be
 223    III|         undergoing change, wherein will consist the difference of the Divine
 224    XXI|             novelty (of Christ's birth) consisted in this, that as the Word
 225     XI|                 indeed it would be more consistent with His plan ---- if He
 226     XV|                 heretical system, might consistently devise a spiritual flesh
 227   VIII|         composed of celestial elements, consists of faulty materials, sinful
 228    XVI|                temper, has made himself conspicuous against us; he will have
 229    VII|                 the other Marys were in constant attendance on Him. In this
 230     XV|        objections even the heathen used constantly to bandy about. Was the
 231     XX|              union and growth which the constituent pieces had communicated
 232     IV|             these very conditions which constitute the man whom God has redeemed.
 233  XXVII|                 Valentinus, which, with consummate assurance, he interpolates
 234      V|             well as their access to and contact with Him! You ought rather
 235     XI|            exhibit itself in the manner contended for; and next consider whether
 236  XXIII|                 view of your own future contentions about the womb of Mary,
 237     XV|                 themselves of all their contentious warmth and artifice. [3] 
 238   VIII|               heaven and its celestial (contents), and everything which is
 239  XXIII|           Simeon's "Sign that Should Be Contradicted," Applied to the Heretical
 240     VI|             mortality there is a mutual contrast. The law which makes us
 241   VIII|        difference of substance; it only contrasts with the once "earthy" substance
 242    XIV|             Saviour, if there be two to contrive salvation, and one of them
 243    VII|                  for it might have been contrived without any mention of either
 244    XIX|              know, is the warm blood as convected by ebullition into the coagulum
 245     VI|             even then rehearsing how to converse with, and liberate, and
 246     IV|            foolish things? Are they the conversion of men to the worship of
 247     XX|               pregnancy, when the veins convey therefrom the blood of the
 248     XX|              lacteal fountain have been conveyed (from the womb) to the breasts,
 249   XXII|                 of Abraham and of David conveying itself down, step after
 250     IX|              this, therefore, we have a convincing proof that in it there was
 251     XX|                origin, by the umbilical cord, which communicated growth
 252    XII|                unless it were exhibited corporeally. We certainly were ignorant
 253     VI|              Nativity and Mortality are Correlative Circumstances, and in Christ'
 254   VIII|              produced out of it. And "a corrupt tree must needs bring forth
 255    III|         rejected in some instances, and corrupter in others, the Scriptures
 256     XV|             substance; as if, forsooth, corruptibility were something else than
 257     XV|               should it be born, not of corruptible [seed], but of incorruptible?
 258    XVI|              its nature, but not in the corruption it received from Adam; [
 259     IV|               He redeemed at so great a cost. If Christ is the Creator'
 260    XIV|              called "the Angel of great counsel," that is, a messenger,
 261    XIV|               Son will not therefore be counted as one of the servants because
 262    III|             will not, however, have the courage to say this; for if it be
 263     IX|                roots, and the branching courses of the veins as winding
 264     XI|                 has been clothed with a covering belonging to something else,
 265      V|        circumcised, or be crucified? be cradled, or be coffined? be laid
 266    VII|          nativity, all who reject it as creating a presumption in favour
 267   VIII|                and as having, after the creation, repented of his work. [
 268  XXVII|             that the ensnaring word had crept into her ear which was to
 269     XX|               Paul, too, silences these critics when he says, "God sent
 270   XXIV|                 out of the midst of the crowds, and the other as detained
 271      V|               God." [2] Have you, then, cut away all sufferings from
 272      X|              since that was in peril of damnation. We therefore now conclude
 273     XV|               who hath known Him? " and Daniel: "Upon the clouds (He came)
 274     IX|                   7] Would any man have dared to touch even with his little
 275      V|               how He rather cheats, and deceives, and juggles the eyes of
 276    III|                 Christ's Apparent Flesh Deceptive and Dishonourable to God,
 277     IV|               from the nativity itself, declaim against the uncleanness
 278  XXIII|             however, that the prophetic declaration of Simeon is fulfilled,
 279    XVI|               in heaven; and we further declare that it will come again
 280   VIII|              human flesh of Christ by a defence of His birth. [2] But since
 281    XVI|           opinion, we should be able to defend it in such a way as completely
 282   XXIV|                 same way, also, when it defines the very Christ to be but
 283     XV|              reduced to such a depth of degradation again, if He rose again
 284    XIV|          angelic nature, He to the same degree loses that inferiority.
 285     II|               Isaiah? He will not brook delay, since suddenly (without
 286  XXVII|                 believed the angel. The delinquency which the one occasioned
 287      I|                was it? If we succeed in demonstrating it, we shall lay down a
 288   XXIV|                1] For when Isaiah hurls denunciation against our very heretics,
 289     IV|                had no love of, when you departed from the Church and the
 290    XII|                yet what imprecations or deprecations does not the soul use according
 291     XV|                of God reduced to such a depth of degradation again, if
 292    XIV|            words, "It was no angel, nor deputy, but the Lord Himself who
 293  XXVII|              the Second Adam, as to the Derivation of Their Flesh. An Analogy
 294    XIV|                 and nothing more than a descendant of David, and not also the
 295   XXII|                  and an order gradually descending to the birth of Christ,
 296   XXIV|          Strictures on Various Heretics Descried in Various Passages of Prophetical
 297      I|                 in his discipleship and desertion of Marcion. [4] At all events,
 298   XIII|              retains not the name which designated its former state, because
 299   XIII|              differs from their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures
 300     XV|                like it has been thought desirable (to happen) to ourselves?
 301     IV|                 feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh now likewise against
 302     VI|                because of His different destination. [13] For One who was to
 303    III|               also a spirit; nor did He destroy His own proper substance
 304      V|                 only hope, thou who art destroying the indispensable dishonour
 305      I|               they get their weapons of destruction. [2] Let us examine our
 306   XXIV|                crowds, and the other as detained by them; one as appearing
 307     IV|             what way were you born? You detest a human being at his birth;
 308      V|              and that indeed to His own detriment ---- that He was bearing
 309     IX|               from something else is in development different), yet, after all,
 310    III|                  then, the things which differ from God, and from which
 311    VII|                 expressing Himself very differently, and not in words which
 312    III|                  Yet with how much more dignity and consistency would He
 313    XIX|               the flesh? For it did not disavow the substance of the flesh
 314      I|           resembled Apelles both in his discipleship and desertion of Marcion. [
 315     IX|                 Heretics Ascribed to It Discoverable, on a Careful View.~[1] 
 316    VII|          temptation, when aiming at the discovery of the point which prompts
 317  XXVII|               perversely applies in his discussions, as well as with the hymns
 318   VIII|               that substance which they disdain to clothe Christ with, because
 319     IV|                 this demurrer: "This is disgraceful for God, and this is unworthy
 320      V|            destroying the indispensable dishonour of our faith Whatsoever
 321    III|            Apparent Flesh Deceptive and Dishonourable to God, Even on Marcion'
 322     IV|            changeful in its feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh now
 323     IV|               Son Vindicated. Marcion's Disparagement of Human Flesh Inconsistent
 324    XVI|               instigated by his love of disputation in the true fashion of heretical
 325     XV|               to the ground, and suffer dissolution? [4] Such objections even
 326    III|                 be. [2] When a thing is distasteful, the very notion of it is
 327   XXIV|             aims a blow at all who make distinctions in it. In the same way,
 328     VI|                 of the before-mentioned diversity of cause. [8] You, however,
 329     XV|                  if heretics could only divest themselves of all their
 330 XXVIII|                one also? For you cannot divide their relation, and adapt
 331    VII|               brothers, they tested His divinity rather than His nativity,
 332      V|                 Refutation of Marcion's Docetic Parody of the Same.~[1] 
 333     XX|                He sucked. Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists, can tell
 334  XXIII|                  nothing twisted into a double sense. Light is light; and
 335    VII|           prompts the temptation by its doubtfulness, falls upon one so abruptly,
 336    Pre|                           Translated by Dr. Holmes.]~ ----  ----  ---- ~
 337     XX|                because the angel in the dream said to Joseph, "That which
 338     IV|                it is washed, when it is dressed out in its swaddling-clothes,
 339       | during
 340     IX|           formation of which out of the dust of the ground is a truth
 341     II|              transmitted by those whose duty it was to hand it down.
 342  XXVII|                 word had crept into her ear which was to build the edifice
 343    VII|               than that which He was so earnestly doing; but they prefer to
 344      V|               word was a phantom to the ears through an imaginary voice.
 345    XIV|              servant. I may, then, more easily say, if such an expression
 346     VI|                 says the Psalmist, "did eat angels' bread," ) yet this
 347      V|                hungry without appetite, eating without teeth, speaking
 348    XIX|              warm blood as convected by ebullition into the coagulum of the
 349  XXVII|              ear which was to build the edifice of death. Into a virgin'
 350   XXII|              they will never be able to efface, There is, first of all,
 351  XXVII|                  the other by believing effaced. But (it will be said) Eve
 352    XIX|             that mysterious seed of the elect and spiritual which they
 353    XXI|              itself. [4] Therefore even Elisabeth must be silent although
 354       | Elsewhere
 355     IV|                 shed into life with the embarrassments which accompany it from
 356     VI|              reason for angels becoming embodied, you have the cause why
 357  XXVII|           virgin did conceive and bear "Emmanuel, God with us." [3] This
 358    XIV|                Hear what Isaiah says in emphatic words, "It was no angel,
 359    XIX|                it. He had no reason for enclosing Himself within one, if He
 360    XXV|                been sufficient, without encountering the isolated opinions which
 361    XII|            itself. For its salvation is endangered, not by its being ignorant
 362     VI|           because it begins with birth, ends in death. It was not fitting
 363    III|             such wise as to be born and endued with a body of flesh, on
 364     XI|                 soul visible to men, by enduing it with a bodily nature,
 365     IX|               and the very contumely He endured bespeak it all. The sufferings
 366     XV|                 has not yet subdued His enemies, so as to be able to triumph
 367    VII|             kingdom of God and actively engaged in healing infirmities of
 368    VII|                the utmost that which He enjoins on others. [13] How strange,
 369     VI|               God whose world they also enjoy. The fact will certainly
 370     IV|                 Describe the womb as it enlarges from day to day, heavy,
 371  XXVII|              was yet a virgin, that the ensnaring word had crept into her
 372  XXIII|                 the "opened womb" which ensues in marriage. [6] We read
 373  XXVII|                flesh into which man had entered ever since his condemnation. ~
 374   VIII|           according to the truth of the entire uncorrupted gospel, ought
 375      V|                 interwoven with nerves, entwined with veins, a flesh which
 376     IX|           characteristics which we have enumerated are so many proofs that
 377  XXIII|                 But with us there is no equivocation, nothing twisted into a
 378     IV|                  if indeed you have not erased it: "God hath chosen the
 379     IV|              true God, the rejection of error, the whole training in righteousness,
 380   XXIV|                     representing one as escaping out of the midst of the
 381     IX|                is flesh but earth in an especial form? [3] Consider the respective
 382    XII|             soul, although an invisible essence, is born and dies, unless
 383    XII|               say, "Animae anima sensus est" ---- "Sense is the soul'
 384    VII|              was teaching others not to esteem mother, or father, or brothers,
 385     II|              Away," says he, "with that eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar,
 386   XXIV|                again, by means of which event they maintain a resurrection
 387  XXVII|               once furnished with clear evidences of the human character of
 388     XX|     Physiological Facts of His Real and Exact Birth of a Human Mother,
 389     XV|            Being of a Spiritual Nature, Examined and Refuted Out of Scripture.~[
 390     VI|              their own blasphemies from examples derived from Him. But it
 391     IX|               of His aught of celestial excellence? From this, therefore, we
 392      V|                comes only from the most excellent God, who is both simple
 393     IV|               another god, His love was excessive, since He redeemed a being
 394    VII|             message, would you not have exclaimed, "What are mother and brothers
 395    VII|                 He also replied to that exclamation (of a certain woman), not
 396   XIII|       substances distinct in kind, thus excluding the unique species of the
 397    XIV|          powerful helper wherewithal to execute the salvation of man? [3] 
 398    XII|                soul could possibly have exercised its own functions. [4] I
 399     XI|                would offer this mode of exhibiting itself by the flesh, until
 400     IV|               possessed with devils, He exorcises it; when dead, He reanimates
 401      I|                as even to deny that the expectation thereof has any relation
 402    XIV|              that which He was about to expedite with an angel's help? If
 403     II|             burden his parents with the expense of the offering; nor let
 404      V|            phantom, He was incapable of experiencing them? We have said above
 405    VII|                      Chapter VII.  ---- Explanation of the Lord's Question About
 406     XI|               The Opposite Extravagance Exposed. That is Christ with a Soul
 407    III|                 was not? [4] You cannot express any apprehension that, if
 408   XIII|             find the soul and the flesh expressed in simple un-figurative
 409    VII|              place, time, and means for expressing Himself very differently,
 410    XIV|                  a messenger, by a term expressive of official function, not
 411    III|                 by the assumption of an extraneous substance. [9] But you ask
 412     XI|          Chapter XI.  ---- The Opposite Extravagance Exposed. That is Christ
 413    XVI|                 completely to avoid the extravagant folly which he ascribes
 414  XXIII|                marriage. [6] We read in Ezekiel of "a heifer which brought
 415     IX|              found its way into Gentile fables; it certainly testifies
 416  XXVII|              God which was to raise the fabric of life; so that what had
 417     IX|                 nature; or to smear His face with spitting, if it had
 418     XV|                 of Valentinus' wretched faction, they refuse at the outset
 419 XXVIII|                 Son of a man, He should fail to be also the Son of God,
 420      I|             eyes and the same senses as failed to grasp the full idea of
 421    XXI|              its root; so that the root fails to secure for itself, by
 422   XXII|                 all, Matthew, that most faithful chronicler of the Gospel,
 423  XXIII|               this child is set for the fall and rising again of many
 424    VII|         temptation by its doubtfulness, falls upon one so abruptly, as
 425    XIV|                ever used by Christ that familiar phrase of all the prophets, "
 426    XXI|                the root of Jesse is the family of David, and the stem of
 427    XVI|                Derived from It.~[1] The famous Alexander, too, instigated
 428   XXIV|               be but one, it shakes the fancies of those who exhibit a multiform
 429     XX|           adheres, that which is firmly fastened to anything from which it
 430    VII|           existence, but censures their faults. [12] Besides, He gave Others
 431    VII|            which we challenged his own (favourite) gospel to the proof, even
 432     IV|                  smiled on with nurse's fawns. This reverend course of
 433    Pre|                 with human flesh  ----  fearing that, if they admitted the
 434     IX|                None of the Supernatural Features Which the Heretics Ascribed
 435     IV|                 sleep, changeful in its feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh
 436    XVI|               one. [5] Do not, however, fetter with mystery a sense which
 437      V|                 with its sufferings was fictitious, for the same reason was
 438   XIII|              their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe
 439   VIII|              souls tampered with by the fiery author of evil, and so unworthy
 440     XV|               XV.  ---- The Valentinian Figment of Christ's Flesh Being
 441    XXI|                 Lord, and is, moreover, filled with the Holy Ghost. For
 442     IV|           elements within the womb, the filthy concretion of fluid and
 443    III|               of sight, so was also the final one. Still there was solidity
 444      X|                 Christ's Flesh Was of a Finer Texture, Animalis, Composed
 445     IX|              touch even with his little finger, the body of Christ, if
 446    XVI|              not the substance, but its flaw; and (this we aver) on the
 447     XI|              case, and neither of these flaws is suitable to God. (But
 448   XIII|               the unique species of the flesh-comprised soul.~
 449   XIII|              For the soul-flesh, or the flesh-soul, is but one; unless indeed
 450     II|               take better care of their flock, and let the wise men spare
 451     XX|           breasts, whether they usually flow at any other time than when
 452  XXIII|                 other words it does not follow that for the reason "she
 453     II|                 message in public; if a follower of apostles, side with apostles
 454    XVI|                to avoid the extravagant folly which he ascribes to us
 455     VI|               read of manna having been food for the people: "Man," says
 456      V|              wise" unless you become a "fool" to the world, by believing"
 457     IV|                 Cleansed the Flesh. The Foolishness of God is Most Wise.~[1] 
 458    VII|                or had laid a wager on a foot race or a chariot race,
 459     II|        authority. If you are a prophet, foretell us a thing; if you are an
 460  XXVII|                 concerning which Isaiah foretold how that the Lord Himself
 461     IX|             this very body of ours, the formation of which out of the dust
 462       | formerly
 463    XXV|               Conclusion. This Treatise Forms a Preface to the Other Work, "
 464    XIV|            prefacing His words with the formula, "Verily, verily, I say
 465     XX|                 her." It is, however, a fortunate circumstance that Matthew
 466     XX|          support, how could the lacteal fountain have been conveyed (from
 467   XXII|                nature issuing from such fountal sources, and an order gradually
 468  XXVII|              Indeed she gave birth to a fratricidal devil; whilst Mary, on the
 469   XXIV|                of Philumene, the virgin friend of Apelles. [3] Surely he
 470     XV|                them in company with His friends.~
 471    XXI|               of prophecy which will be frustrated? Will not the angel's announcement
 472     VI|                 found our way "out of a frying-pan," as the proverb runs, "
 473  XXIII|                declaration of Simeon is fulfilled, which he spoke over the
 474    VII|          preaching and manifesting God, fulfilling the law and the prophets,
 475      I|           senses as failed to grasp the full idea of His flesh. ~
 476  XXVII|               seed as yet cast into its furrows, when, as we are told, God
 477   XXIV|          against which they spent their fury, and without which it would
 478  XXIII|                 not in view of your own future contentions about the womb
 479      V|               is unworthy of God, is of gain to me. I am safe, if I am
 480  XXIII|                Applied to the Heretical Gainsaying of the True Birth of Christ.
 481   XXIV|           strikes at those inexplicable genealogies of the Valentinian Aeons.
 482    XXI|              for every step indeed in a genealogy is traced from the latest
 483 XXVIII|                 the flesh of man, being generated in the flesh as man. ~
 484     IV|          against the uncleanness of the generative elements within the womb,
 485     XI|               is a bodily existence sui generis. Nothing lacks bodily existence
 486     IX|            which has found its way into Gentile fables; it certainly testifies
 487    XXI|                  which received not its germ from the womb, which had
 488     IX|               as stones; the mammillary glands as a kind of pebbles. Look
 489    XIV|               sure, in one respect more glorious than the prophets, inasmuch
 490  XXVII|                 of a virgin. He who was going to consecrate a new order
 491     II|            journey; let them keep their gold to themselves. [2] Let Herod,
 492     IX|              View.~[1] We have thus far gone on the principle, that nothing
 493     IV|               in its swaddling-clothes, graced with repeated anointing,
 494   XXII|           fountal sources, and an order gradually descending to the birth
 495    XII|                 1] Well, now, let it be granted that the soul is made apparent
 496      I|                same senses as failed to grasp the full idea of His flesh. ~
 497     IX|                as moss, and the hair as grass, and the very treasures
 498    III|                  It is of course of the greatest importance that there should
 499      I|              Therefore we shall have to guard our belief in the resurrection
 500      V|              men, who acquittest of all guilt the murderers of God! For