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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus On the flesh of Christ Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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501 IX| covers us) as moss, and the hair as grass, and the very treasures 502 V| all its powers. Wherefore halve Christ with a lie? He was 503 XV| been thought desirable (to happen) to ourselves? Such views 504 XXIV| only in another flesh. [4] Happily, however, He who suffered " 505 V| sense, and foolish in a happy one, by my own contempt 506 IV| flesh He restores from every harassing malady; when leprous, He 507 II| swaddling-clothes, and the hard stable. We do not care a 508 V| was bearing about a flesh hardened without bones, solid without 509 II| have had, O Marcion, the hardihood of blotting out the original 510 | hast 511 XIV| such an expression is to be hazarded, that the Son is actually 512 IV| body as impossible or as hazardous to the character of God, 513 VII| and actively engaged in healing infirmities of body and 514 VII| close to Christ within, hearing and believing, represented 515 XII| There is nothing one oftener hears of than that there is no 516 XV| views are not improper for heathens and they are fit and natural 517 IV| enlarges from day to day, heavy, troublesome, restless even 518 XXIII| We read in Ezekiel of "a heifer which brought forth, and 519 XIV| might have it) as a powerful helper wherewithal to execute the 520 | Hence 521 | hereafter 522 II| prescriptive rules against all heresies. Our repetition of them 523 II| gold to themselves. [2] Let Herod, too, mend his manners, 524 | hers 525 V| a magician; not as the High Priest of our salvation, 526 XIV| however, and "the Power of the Highest," can He be regarded as 527 VII| father, or brothers, as highly as the word of God, He were 528 II| original records (of the history) of Christ, that His flesh 529 II| Let that old woman also hold her tongue, lest she should 530 XXIV| other as an ordinary man holding intercourse with all, one 531 Pre| Translated by Dr. Holmes.]~ ---- ---- ---- ~This 532 IV| Chapter IV. ---- God's Honour in the Incarnation of His 533 IV| however, ought rather to be honoured in consideration of that 534 IV| nature. [2] Of course you are horrified also at the infant, which 535 II| multitude of the heavenly host which praised their Lord 536 V| possesses, but only the flesh. Howdo you interpret this statement, 537 IV| preached, for his sake "He humbled Himself even unto death ---- 538 IX| knowing it to be earthy? He hungered under the devil's temptation; 539 V| without the tunic of skin, hungry without appetite, eating 540 XXIV| Condemned.~[1] For when Isaiah hurls denunciation against our 541 IX| and the Pleiades, and the Hyades. Well, then, the characteristics 542 XXVII| discussions, as well as with the hymns of Valentinus, which, with 543 Pre| s flesh, or at least its identity with human flesh ---- 544 VIII| difference in the point of ignominy, let them either devise 545 II| Chapter II. ---- Marcion, Who Would 546 III| Chapter III. ---- Christ's Nativity 547 XII| man dies after a well or ill spent life! These reflections 548 XIII| just had recourse to an illustration, we will put it to further 549 XX| Psalms of David, the most illustrious saint and well-known prophet. 550 XXVII| that God recovered His own image and likeness, of which He 551 XXIII| womb," wherein it was quite immaterial whether the birth of the 552 XII| since it is the soul that imparts the faculty of perception 553 IV| Inconsistent as Well as Impious. Christ Has Cleansed the 554 XII| in this hypothesis, which implies that we are ourselves separate 555 XXIII| sentence of such doubtful import, especially when Isaiah 556 VII| outside, or to shake off the importunity of those who would call 557 XI| even its existence is an impossibility, unless it has that which 558 XII| after death; and yet what imprecations or deprecations does not 559 V| crucified; " falsely has he impressed upon us that He was buried; 560 XV| ourselves? Such views are not improper for heathens and they are 561 I| and Valentinus, Wishing to Impugn the Doctrine of the Resurrection, 562 VI| from the faith which it impugns? What has it to do with 563 IV| God's Honour in the Incarnation of His Son Vindicated. Marcion' 564 XI| invisible one ---- a fit incentive, no doubt, for such questions 565 V| and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human Life on Earth, 566 XII| other, that is, as being incognizable to itself and to us: there 567 XIII| body; it is also a wholly incomplex being, and an indivisible 568 IV| Disparagement of Human Flesh Inconsistent as Well as Impious. Christ 569 XI| hypothesis, supposed to be incorporeal, so that the soul, whatever 570 XI| invisibility is the result of its incorporeality, or whether it actually 571 V| that He was buried; falsely inculcated that He rose again. False, 572 IX| how, I ask, could He have incurred contempt and suffering in 573 XIII| one body, and has one name indicative, of course, of that one 574 VII| denying one's parents in indignation, one does not deny their 575 V| thou who art destroying the indispensable dishonour of our faith Whatsoever 576 XIII| incomplex being, and an indivisible substance. But in Christ 577 XIV| what reason? The same which induced Him to become man? Christ, 578 XXIV| God," he strikes at those inexplicable genealogies of the Valentinian 579 V| be a phantom. O thou most infamous of men, who acquittest of 580 V| of an imaginary birth and infancy. But answer me at once, 581 XXVII| introduced to us, it is a just inference that the second Adam likewise, 582 XIV| the same degree loses that inferiority. This opinion will be very 583 VII| actively engaged in healing infirmities of body and soul; but all 584 XXIV| attention to the artful influence of Philumene, the virgin 585 IX| the prophets given us no information whatever concerning His 586 VI| yet this does not once infringe the separate condition of 587 XIX| consistency, which is condensed by infusing the rennet. We thus understand 588 III| return to nothing. If the initial step was out of sight, so 589 III| the said character without injury to that consciousness of 590 II| of Caesar, and the scanty inn, and the squalid swaddling-clothes, 591 IV| chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence? These things certainly 592 XI| soul is wholly invisible (inquiring further) whether this invisibility 593 XXVII| author, let us confine our inquiry to a single point ---- Whether 594 XIX| s womb. Why, too, is it insisted on with such an accumulation 595 XIII| indicate. Baked clay, for instance, receives the name of brick. 596 IV| censure (I imagine) would have instantly met Him with this demurrer: " 597 XVI| The famous Alexander, too, instigated by his love of disputation 598 XI| unless it has that which is instrumental to its existence. Since, 599 XVI| mystery a sense which is quite intelligible. For in putting on our flesh, 600 VII| while, whilst strangers were intent on Him, His very nearest 601 X| substance which He had no intention of saving! [3] And, secondly, 602 XXVII| consummate assurance, he interpolates as the production of some 603 V| only the flesh. Howdo you interpret this statement, Marcion, 604 VII| doing; but they prefer to interrupt Him, and wish to call Him 605 VI| in the flesh without the intervention of the womb. [4] We admit, 606 V| blood, built up with bones, interwoven with nerves, entwined with 607 XXII| very virgin, and at last introducing Christ, ---- nay, producing 608 IV| feelings of dislike and desire. Inveigh now likewise against the 609 IV| preach the kingdom of heaven invested with the body of a beast 610 XI| inquiring further) whether this invisibility is the result of its incorporeality, 611 IX| spitting, if it had not invited it (by its abjectness)? 612 XXV| without encountering the isolated opinions which have been 613 XXII| Abraham." [2] With a nature issuing from such fountal sources, 614 XXI| offspring of the said womb if itowe its birth solely to itself. [ 615 IV| Chapter IV. ---- God's Honour in the 616 IX| Chapter IX. ---- Christ's Flesh Perfectly 617 XX| Abraham to Mary, says, "Jacob begat Joseph the husband 618 XV| bearing of weakness; " and Jeremiah: "He is a man, and who hath 619 II| mend his manners, so that Jeremy may not glory over him. 620 VII| synagogue, as well as of the Jews in the unbelieving brethren. 621 III| matter by the Gospel of John, when it declares that the 622 XXVIII| more than "a Solomon" or "a Jonas," ---- as Ebion thought 623 II| stable. We do not care a jot for that multitude of the 624 IV| reason than because one thus judges. It is of course foolish, 625 XII| acquires any knowledge of His judgment, it professes to commend 626 V| cheats, and deceives, and juggles the eyes of all, and the 627 IX| pebbles. Look upon the close junctions of the nerves as propagations 628 IV| more easy to believe that Jupiter became a bull or a swan, 629 IV| Creator's Son, it was with justice that He loved His own (creature); 630 VII| the long preceding age, justly employ this same form of 631 XIII| soul. Since, however, He keeps the species distinct, the 632 XV| saying: "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told 633 V| But Marcion will apply the knife to this doctrine also, and 634 IX| the best of reasons for knowing it to be earthy? He hungered 635 XXVII| reduced as yet by no human labour, with no seed as yet cast 636 XIV| sends even His Son to the labourers require fruit, as well as 637 XI| existence sui generis. Nothing lacks bodily existence but that 638 XX| that during the period of lactation the monthly issues are suspended. 639 XX| and support, how could the lacteal fountain have been conveyed ( 640 XXIII| not bear; "just as if such language, if indeed it must be uttered, 641 II| repetition of them hereafter that large (treatise) is superfluous, 642 XXIV| but the other as timid; lastly, one as suffering death, 643 XXI| genealogy is traced from the latest up to the first, so that 644 VII| Behold," it says, "a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted Him." 645 XXIII| becoming a mother at a leap, as it were, before she 646 VII| present, as even Apelles might learn. [9] "The Lord's brethren 647 XII| condition. [5] Before it learns anything about God, it names 648 VII| God, He were Himself to leave the word of God as soon 649 XXVII| the Virgin Mary.~[1] But, leaving Alexander with his syllogisms, 650 XIV| actuated by the motive which led Him to take human nature. 651 XII| only remaining question left for us to look into is, 652 II| the wise men spare their legs so long a journey; let them 653 IV| every harassing malady; when leprous, He cleanses it of the stain; 654 II| acknowledge in a certain letter of yours, and as your followers 655 VI| how to converse with, and liberate, and judge the human race, 656 I| under the prompting of that licence which is ever the same in 657 V| Wherefore halve Christ with a lie? He was wholly the truth. [ 658 XV| pretend it to be anything he liked, for ---- as much as (and 659 IV| a bull or a swan, if we listen to Marcion, than that Christ 660 VII| favour ---- even because they listened to the word (of God) ---- 661 II| reason to say) cease to live. [4] For indeed you are 662 V| Chapter V. ---- Christ Truly Lived and Died in Human Flesh. 663 XXIV| that His flesh no longer lives.~ 664 IV| you likewise, of course, loathe it even after it is washed, 665 IX| the Son of God, for He was looked on as man, for no other 666 III| latter desired to be let loose, so tightly was he held. [ 667 XIV| nature, He to the same degree loses that inferiority. This opinion 668 VIII| angel by the figure of "the lost sheep." The world, then, 669 III| even washed their feet, and Lot was rescued from the Sodomites 670 IV| to another. Well, then, loving man He loved his nativity 671 XV| again, they read: "Thou madest Him a little less than angels; " 672 XXIV| intercourse with all, one as magnanimous, but the other as timid; 673 X| since they assume it as a main tenet, that Christ came 674 XXVII| origin? And even reason here maintains the same conclusion, because 675 XI| as they start, by their maintenance of a human flesh for it. [ 676 IV| restores from every harassing malady; when leprous, He cleanses 677 XX| of the lower parts to the mammilla, and in the act of transference 678 IX| the bones as stones; the mammillary glands as a kind of pebbles. 679 V| be coffined? be laid in a manger, or in a tomb? Talk of " 680 XV| one and so they deny the manhood. They believe that He died, 681 XII| But even this He did not manifest in Himself in a different 682 VII| Christ, whilst preaching and manifesting God, fulfilling the law 683 VI| celestial nature (for we read of manna having been food for the 684 II| Let Herod, too, mend his manners, so that Jeremy may not 685 IX| and the very treasures of marrow within our bones as ores 686 VII| adherence to Him, although the Marthas and the other Marys were 687 VII| the Marthas and the other Marys were in constant attendance 688 XI| covers him with a veil or a mask. This, however, is precisely 689 XX| communicated growth to Him from the matrix? Even when one strange matter 690 XV| Christ Jesus is the one Mediator between God and man." Also 691 XXVII| in which a virgin was the medium. The earth was still in 692 XI| Clothed in It.~[1] But we meet another argument of theirs, 693 XXVII| who should blot out the memory of the evil brother. Hence 694 II| themselves. [2] Let Herod, too, mend his manners, so that Jeremy 695 XX| mother's breasts" which He mentions? No doubt they were those 696 IV| righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence? 697 XXI| Christ is inseparable, not merely from Mary, but also from 698 IV| imagine) would have instantly met Him with this demurrer: " 699 XIV| angel, as a Gabriel or a Michael. [4] For the Lord of the 700 XXIV| one as escaping out of the midst of the crowds, and the other 701 XX| were those which He sucked. Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists, 702 XIX| the coagulation that the milky substance acquires that 703 VI| for us not to doubt in our minds that a property of angelic 704 XV| they discover a human being mingled with a divine one and so 705 IX| only, from His teaching and miracles solely, that men, though 706 IX| Him any new kind of flesh miraculously obtained (from the stars), 707 IV| months long out of that very mire. Describe the womb as it 708 V| of the dead, but as the misleader of the living, ---- except 709 V| have undergone the unreal mockeries of an imaginary birth and 710 XI| that it would offer this mode of exhibiting itself by 711 I| before the appearance of our modern Sadducees, as even to deny 712 XX| period of lactation the monthly issues are suspended. But 713 IV| growth of the flesh for nine: months long out of that very mire. 714 V| being. It will therefore be mortal in Christ, because Christ 715 IX| down (which covers us) as moss, and the hair as grass, 716 XXIV| appearing on a solitary mountain to three companions, clothed 717 V| but from some troop of mountebanks, not as God besides man, 718 XXIV| fancies of those who exhibit a multiform Christ, who make Christ 719 II| not care a jot for that multitude of the heavenly host which 720 V| answer me at once, you that murder truth: Was not God really 721 XXVII| after the flesh, and the murderer of Himself. God therefore 722 V| acquittest of all guilt the murderers of God! For nothing did 723 | myself 724 XIII| have been thus (confusedly) named if such had been their condition. 725 XX| Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists, can tell us, from the nature 726 VI| bore a flesh which was not naturally their own; their nature 727 VII| actually turned up recovers its naturalness. But there is some ground 728 V| with equal truth of both natures alike, with the same belief 729 VII| intent on Him, His very nearest relatives were absent. [ 730 VI| having been sent to die, had necessarily to be also born, that He 731 | nevertheless 732 | next 733 II| which praised their Lord at night. Let the shepherds take 734 | nine 735 | nobody 736 XI| existence but that which is non-existent. If, then, the soul has 737 I| Christ would escape the notice of the same eyes and the 738 XXVII| Himself be born after a novel fashion, concerning which 739 | nowhere 740 IV| womb, even that man who was nursed amidst the nurse's simpers. 741 XX| convert the secretion into the nutritious substance of milk. Whence 742 VI| because He had to die in obedience to that very condition which, 743 XV| suffer dissolution? [4] Such objections even the heathen used constantly 744 XXV| the question, against all objectors, of what that flesh was 745 XXII| Adam.~[1] They may, then, obliterate the testimony of the devils 746 IX| Christ; and it is they which obscured Him as the Son of God, for 747 XI| own self, by reason of the obstacle of this flesh, so that it 748 XXVII| delinquency which the one occasioned by believing, the other 749 IV| turning these conditions into occasions of blushing to the very 750 II| with the expense of the offering; nor let him be handed to 751 XIV| because He undertook the office of a servant. I may, then, 752 XIV| by a term expressive of official function, not of nature. 753 | Often 754 XII| God. There is nothing one oftener hears of than that there 755 II| if you are an apostle, open your message in public; 756 XXIII| others also: "Every male that openeth the womb shall be called 757 XXIII| was under the very law of "opening the womb," wherein it was 758 XIV| was Himself the Lord, who openly spake by His own authority, 759 XXIII| But it is marriage which opens the womb in all cases. The 760 XX| a womb, no mother's womb operating upon Him with its usual 761 XXVII| was by just the contrary operation that God recovered His own 762 VIII| power of Christ for such operations, could have done anything 763 XXVII| But that I may lose no opportunity of supporting my argument 764 III| the Scriptures which are opposed to your opinion, you would 765 XI| Chapter XI. ---- The Opposite Extravagance Exposed. That 766 XIV| Father, even that which ordained the restoration of man. 767 IX| marrow within our bones as ores of flesh. [4] All these 768 XXVII| she should conceive as an outcast, and bring forth in sorrow. 769 XV| faction, they refuse at the outset to believe that a human 770 IX| even they who despised His outward form. His body did not reach 771 XIV| solitary and single serpent had overthrown! There is, then, no longer 772 VI| Now, since Christ died owing to the condition which undergoes 773 IX| that men, though amazed, owned Christ to be man. But if 774 II| that he may escape the pain thereof; nor let him be 775 VI| since it was composed of so palpably terrene a quality that it 776 IV| rekindles its light; when palsied, He renews its strength; 777 VII| denying His mother's "womb and paps," but designating those 778 XXIII| Christ. One of the Heretics' Paradoxes Turned in Support of Catholic 779 V| of man without any human parent; just as He is not God without 780 XXIII| There is not, however, that parity of reasoning which the heretics 781 V| Refutation of Marcion's Docetic Parody of the Same.~[1] There are, 782 XIX| do so for the purpose of partaking of flesh from the womb. 783 XIII| if they are neither in particular, although they become both 784 XXIII| the conception and the parturition of the Virgin Mary, concerning 785 IV| righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, and innocence? These things 786 VI| flesh of Christ after the pattern of the angels, declaring 787 XXV| preface, and which will pave the way for the approaching 788 IX| mammillary glands as a kind of pebbles. Look upon the close junctions 789 XII| since it is itself that perceives the very senses, not to 790 XII| that imparts the faculty of perception to all (that have sense), 791 XIV| assigned to angels also perdition in "the fire prepared for 792 XX| to pass that during the period of lactation the monthly 793 III| 7] Has it, then, been permitted to angels, which are inferior 794 XXVII| syllogisms, which he so perversely applies in his discussions, 795 XV| between God and man." Also Peter, in the Acts of the Apostles, 796 III| did those angels appear as phantoms of flesh? You will not, 797 VII| in another passage: "The Pharisees also came unto Him, tempting 798 XX| Virgin, of Her Substance. The Physiological Facts of His Real and Exact 799 XX| growth which the constituent pieces had communicated to each 800 II| says he, "with that eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar, and the 801 XI| more consistent with His plan ---- if He displayed the 802 XX| apostate, and heretic, and Platonist, but the Psalms of David, 803 VII| happened to be at a stage play, or had laid a wager on 804 XXVII| Their Flesh. An Analogy Also Pleasantly Traced Between Eve and the 805 VII| Apelles, or will you Marcion, please (to tell me), if you happened 806 IV| nature, you, O Marcion, (are pleased to) spit upon; and yet, 807 IX| purloined from the Bear, and the Pleiades, and the Hyades. Well, then, 808 XIX| was written thus (in the plural) " Who were born, not of 809 XX| spiritually cleansed from all pollutions through Christ, who was 810 XVI| again from thence in all the pomp of the Father's glory: [ 811 VI| disciples of the heretic of Pontus, compelled to be wiser than 812 XI| consider whether their previous position be that the soul is wholly 813 III| other things except in His possessing the contrary faculty of 814 XXI| that is to say, of his posterity in the flesh, God swears 815 IX| is weak " ); at last, He pours out His blood. [8] These, 816 XIV| that He might have it) as a powerful helper wherewithal to execute 817 XII| soul; it has, I mean, a practical knowledge of itself, without 818 II| the heavenly host which praised their Lord at night. Let 819 XIX| sexual intercourse. [5] Pray, tell me, why the Spirit 820 XII| rational animal, itself being pre-eminently rational. Now, how can that 821 VIII| 2] But since Apelles' precious set lay a very great stress 822 XXV| whence it was derived, also predetermined the question, against all 823 VI| those in which he even then predicted him, saying, "Although an 824 XIV| spake by His own authority, prefacing His words with the formula, " 825 VII| earnestly doing; but they prefer to interrupt Him, and wish 826 VII| which He called mother in a preferable sense and a worthier brotherhood, 827 VII| Besides, He gave Others the preference; and since He shows their 828 XXVII| whole of this new birth was prefigured, as was the case in all 829 XIV| also perdition in "the fire prepared for the devil and his angels," 830 XX| of its proper force as a preposition, and to substitute another 831 VII| untrue announcement of the presence of persons who were not 832 III| not why, He would not have presented Himself in the likeness 833 XXIV| upon those amongst you who preserve not in the words they employ 834 VI| not to be born under the pretence that it was fitting for 835 III| should be nothing false (or pretended) attributed to that which 836 VI| easy task for the truth to prevail without raising any such 837 VII| tempting Him." Who was to prevent its being in this place 838 V| magician; not as the High Priest of our salvation, but as 839 II| of its reality. [3] But, prithee, on what grounds (do you 840 II| thought; if you are only a (private) Christian, believe what 841 VII| 6] He might with more probability have had even a father than 842 IX| other words, that which proceeds from something else is in 843 XXII| testimony of the devils which proclaimed Jesus the son of David; 844 XXII| introducing Christ, ---- nay, producing Christ Himself of the virgin? [ 845 XII| knowledge of His judgment, it professes to commend itself to God. 846 XXII| David, as a more recent progenitor! [5] For, unfolding the 847 I| As if indeed, under the prompting of that licence which is 848 VII| discovery of the point which prompts the temptation by its doubtfulness, 849 XXVIII| sententiously and distinctly pronounced, "that which is born of 850 IX| junctions of the nerves as propagations of roots, and the branching 851 XXIV| Descried in Various Passages of Prophetical Scripture. Those Who Assail 852 XI| invisible body, He who had proposed to make it visible would 853 VI| of a frying-pan," as the proverb runs, "into the fire," ---- 854 VI| Christ's Case His Death Proves His Birth.~[1] But certain 855 VI| people: "Man," says the Psalmist, "did eat angels' bread," ) 856 VII| in the Gospel which was published before Marcion's time; whilst 857 XX| regeneration might have virginal purity, ---- spiritually cleansed 858 IX| celestial substance in Him purloined from the Bear, and the Pleiades, 859 I| Chapter I. ---- The General Purport of This Work. The Heretics, 860 III| condition. [8] If you had not purposely rejected in some instances, 861 XII| reflections are more fully pursued in a short treatise which 862 I| would have to be regarded as putative. These facts pertaining 863 III| changed into something else puts an end to the former state. 864 XVI| quite intelligible. For in putting on our flesh, He made it 865 XXV| been raised from different quarters. We have, however, challenged 866 XXVII| was formed by God into a quickening spirit out of the ground, ---- 867 V| conjurer in a show; not as the raiser of the dead, but as the 868 IV| people. [3] Christ, at any rate, has loved even that man 869 XII| be itself ignorant of its rationality, being ignorant of its own 870 XXVII| manner, and cleanse it by the re-moval of all its ancient stains. 871 IX| outward form. His body did not reach even to human beauty, to 872 IV| exorcises it; when dead, He reanimates it, ---- then shall we blush 873 XXIII| however, that parity of reasoning which the heretics affect: 874 II| of Christ's Nativity, is Rebuked for So Startling a Heresy.~[ 875 XIII| Baked clay, for instance, receives the name of brick. It retains 876 | recent 877 XXIII| which he spoke over the recently-born Saviour: "Behold, this child 878 XXIII| woman," he in that statement recognised the condition of the "opened 879 VI| The fact will certainly recoil on them as a witness to 880 II| Who Would Blot Out the Record of Christ's Nativity, is 881 II| blotting out the original records (of the history) of Christ, 882 XIII| And since we have just had recourse to an illustration, we will 883 VII| brethren had actually turned up recovers its naturalness. But there 884 XIV| perished. Man had perished; his recovery had become necessary. No 885 IX| after all, what is blood but red fluid? what is flesh but 886 VIII| entirely does the passage refer the celestial man to the 887 XIX| the singular number, as referring to the Lord, "He was born 888 XII| or ill spent life! These reflections are more fully pursued in 889 XXVII| in order that He might reform it with a new seed, that 890 IV| loved them? Our birth He reforms from death by a second birth 891 XV| for Christ. Any one who refused to believe that that flesh 892 V| Human Life on Earth, and Refutation of Marcion's Docetic Parody 893 VIII| suitable for Him, I am bound to refute them on their own ground. 894 VIII| Christ is heavenly even in regard to the flesh, they could 895 XXIII| and "yet not a virgin," as regards her bearing a child. [3] 896 XX| indicated, in order that our regeneration might have virginal purity, ---- 897 III| are subject to change is regulated by this law, that they have 898 VI| Christ, who was even then rehearsing how to converse with, and 899 IV| the stain; when blind, He rekindles its light; when palsied, 900 VI| that such facts have been related. But then, how comes it 901 VII| repudiation of the carnal relationship. It was in just the same 902 VII| on Him, His very nearest relatives were absent. [10] By and 903 VIII| seem to place their chief reliance when interpreted according 904 III| bodily form, nevertheless to remain angels? and will you deprive 905 VII| In their person Isreal remained outside, whilst the new 906 XII| itself. [2] Thus the only remaining question left for us to 907 XVI| a human father, let them remember that Adam himself received 908 IV| light; when palsied, He renews its strength; when possessed 909 XIX| condensed by infusing the rennet. We thus understand that 910 VIII| a certain angel of great renown as having created this world 911 IV| swaddling-clothes, graced with repeated anointing, smiled on with 912 VIII| having, after the creation, repented of his work. [3] This indeed 913 II| against all heresies. Our repetition of them hereafter that large ( 914 VII| sense, indeed, that He also replied to that exclamation (of 915 VI| Philumene, the apostle will reply in tones like those in which 916 XXIV| and Jesus another, ---- representing one as escaping out of the 917 IV| God, it remains for you to repudiate and censure it as unworthy 918 VII| worthier brotherhood, with the repudiation of the carnal relationship. 919 XIV| His Son to the labourers require fruit, as well as His servants. 920 XI| this point, whether it was requisite that the soul should exhibit 921 III| their feet, and Lot was rescued from the Sodomites by their 922 VI| we have now to show our resistance. [3] They allow that Christ 923 XX| But to what shifts you resort, in your attempt to rob 924 XXVII| as the production of some respectable author, let us confine our 925 IX| especial form? [3] Consider the respective qualities, ---- of the muscles 926 IV| day, heavy, troublesome, restless even in sleep, changeful 927 XI| among men except as a man. Restore, therefore, to Christ, His 928 IV| from heaven; our flesh He restores from every harassing malady; 929 XI| this invisibility is the result of its incorporeality, or 930 XIII| receives the name of brick. It retains not the name which designated 931 XV| flesh has both risen and returned to heaven, is not ours, 932 XII| Perfect Human Nature, Not to Reveal and Explain It, But to Save 933 IV| with nurse's fawns. This reverend course of nature, you, O 934 IV| error, the whole training in righteousness, chastity, mercy, patience, 935 IX| of the veins as winding rivulets, and the down (which covers 936 XX| resort, in your attempt to rob the syllable ex (of) of 937 XXVII| likeness, of which He had been robbed by the devil. [5] For it 938 IX| nerves as propagations of roots, and the branching courses 939 XXI| product advances from its rudimental condition to perfect fruit. 940 XXVII| what had been reduced to ruin by this sex, might by the 941 VI| which holds to a different rule borrows materials for its 942 II| fully of these prescriptive rules against all heresies. Our 943 VI| frying-pan," as the proverb runs, "into the fire," ---- 944 XV| Son of man is Lord of the Sabbath-day." For it is of Him that 945 IV| that peril, or to be held sacred in respect of (the mystery 946 II| Simeon, lest the old man be saddened at the point of death. Let 947 I| appearance of our modern Sadducees, as even to deny that the 948 XX| David, the most illustrious saint and well-known prophet. 949 IX| thirsted with the woman of Samaria; He wept over Lazarus; He 950 XX| voice Christ indeed also sang concerning Himself. [4] 951 III| the body of a dove, and sat upon the Lord. When the 952 X| of it. [2] For while He saves our souls, which are not 953 X| which He had no intention of saving! [3] And, secondly, if He 954 III| been born, because they saw Him as a man, that was their 955 II| taxing of Caesar, and the scanty inn, and the squalid swaddling-clothes, 956 VII| law and the prophets, and scattering the darkness of the long 957 III| the very notion of it is scouted; because it makes no difference 958 X| intention of saving! [3] And, secondly, if He had undertaken deliver 959 X| condition of our soul in its secret nature, it is certainly 960 XX| transference convert the secretion into the nutritious substance 961 XIII| designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe appreciation of 962 XXII| adds, "He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, 963 XI| indeed, it was incapable of seeing anything, even its own self, 964 XV| man, saying: "But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath 965 | seeming 966 III| of man. Now who, when he sees a man, would deny that he 967 XVI| flesh," in the sense of a semblance of body instead of its reality; 968 XIV| the Lord of the Vineyard sends even His Son to the labourers 969 XXIV| flesh sits in heaven void of sensation, like a sheath only, Christ 970 XXVII| and from the system of its sensations, and from its suffering 971 XII| soul, in my opinion, is sensual. Nothing, therefore, pertaining 972 XII| would say, "Animae anima sensus est" ---- "Sense is the 973 XXVIII| fact) that the Lord Himself sententiously and distinctly pronounced, " 974 XIII| each substance has been separately mentioned by itself, conformably 975 XIV| undertook the office of a servant. I may, then, more easily 976 XXV| this present one, which serves as a general preface, and 977 XXIV| for light," he of course sets his mark upon those amongst 978 I| resurrection which was firmly settled before the appearance of 979 XXIV| Christ to be but one, it shakes the fancies of those who 980 VIII| very great stress on the shameful condition of the flesh, 981 V| which can prove me to be shameless in a good sense, and foolish 982 XIII| because it has no longer a share in that state. [3] Therefore, 983 XXIV| void of sensation, like a sheath only, Christ being withdrawn 984 IV| at the infant, which is shed into life with the embarrassments 985 VIII| the figure of "the lost sheep." The world, then, must 986 II| their Lord at night. Let the shepherds take better care of their 987 XX| Scripture.~[1] But to what shifts you resort, in your attempt 988 XI| in order to be able to shine! Now, let us first turn 989 VI| the flesh, and afterwards shipwrecked himself, in the spirit, 990 VII| by the stress either of sickness, or of business, or a journey 991 III| initial step was out of sight, so was also the final one. 992 XXIV| the light of their true significance, (by taking care) that the 993 XX| Christ." But Paul, too, silences these critics when he says, " 994 XXVII| Chapter XVII. ---- The Similarity of Circumstances Between 995 IV| nursed amidst the nurse's simpers. For his sake He came down ( 996 XXIII| not, contrary to His usual simplicity of style (in this prophet), 997 VIII| Christ with, because of its sinfulness, ---- in other words, our 998 XX| and well-known prophet. He sings to us of Christ, and through 999 XIX| The expression is in the singular number, as referring to 1000 VII| and His brethren, and His sisters, were very well known to