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1001    XXI|               that "He will raise up to sit upon his throne." If "of
1002   XXIV|               who affirm that His flesh sits in heaven void of sensation,
1003    XVI|                  in public), that it is sitting at the right hand of the
1004      V|            clothed without the tunic of skin, hungry without appetite,
1005     IV|           troublesome, restless even in sleep, changeful in its feelings
1006    VII|             because, forsooth, they set small store on that which was
1007     IX|                an unusual nature; or to smear His face with spitting,
1008     IV|                with repeated anointing, smiled on with nurse's fawns. This
1009    III|                Lot was rescued from the Sodomites by their hands; an angel,
1010    III|              final one. Still there was solidity in their bodily substance,
1011 XXVIII|               have nothing more than "a Solomon" or "a Jonas,"  ---- as
1012       | sometimes
1013     XI|                be corporeal, but having somewhat that is invisible. For if
1014    VII|                leave the word of God as soon as His mother and brethren
1015    XIV|                   3] The Son of God, in sooth, was not competent alone
1016  XXIII|                  concerning which these sophists say: "She a virgin and yet
1017  XXVII|             outcast, and bring forth in sorrow. Indeed she gave birth to
1018   XIII|              the flesh of soul. For the soul-flesh, or the flesh-soul, is but
1019   XXII|               issuing from such fountal sources, and an order gradually
1020     XI|                different notion, (being spared the idea that) He had set
1021    XXI|                 to assume. No flesh can speak of a mother's womb but that
1022     XV|               the Acts of the Apostles, speaks of Him as verily human (
1023    XXI|                 means of the stem, that special product which comes from
1024     XX|              have virginal purity, ---- spiritually cleansed from all pollutions
1025     IV|               Marcion, (are pleased to) spit upon; and yet, in what way
1026     IX|               or to smear His face with spitting, if it had not invited it (
1027    XXI|               blossom of the stem which sprouts from the root of Jesse;
1028     II|                 the scanty inn, and the squalid swaddling-clothes, and the
1029     II|         swaddling-clothes, and the hard stable. We do not care a jot for
1030    VII|                 you happened to be at a stage play, or had laid a wager
1031  XXVII|             re-moval of all its ancient stains. But the whole of this new
1032   VIII|               some substance of a purer stamp, since they are displeased
1033     XI|                to God. (But as the case stands in the hypothesis) there
1034     XI|              for such questions as they start, by their maintenance of
1035     II|             Nativity, is Rebuked for So Startling a Heresy.~[1] Clearly enough
1036      V|                This property of the two states ---- the divine and the
1037     XV|               composed. of soul, nor of stellar substance, and that it was
1038     IX|               as clods; of the bones as stones; the mammillary glands as
1039    VII|                forsooth, they set small store on that which was doing
1040    XXI|               as her son, but only as a stranger that Mary carried Jesus
1041    VII|               but all the while, whilst strangers were intent on Him, His
1042    III|                  wrestled with a man so strenuously with his body, that the
1043   XXIV|              Chapter XXIV.  ---- Divine Strictures on Various Heretics Descried
1044    VII|              form of words, in order to strike the unbelief of those who
1045   XXIV|                me there was no God," he strikes at those inexplicable genealogies
1046      V|             weak in the other exceeding strong; in on sense dying, in the
1047    XII|                 have we received of the structure of the soul which we were
1048    XXI|            Himself, and the prophecy is stultified. [3] For in that case a
1049  XXIII|                 His usual simplicity of style (in this prophet), have
1050     XV|               while. Christ has not yet subdued His enemies, so as to be
1051     VI|                 to demonstrate what has subsequently become of their bodies.
1052     XX|                as a preposition, and to substitute another for it in a sense
1053    XXI|            angel's announcement also be subverted, that the virgin should "
1054      I|                 what kind was it? If we succeed in demonstrating it, we
1055     XX|                they were those which He sucked. Midwives, and doctors,
1056     II|             will not brook delay, since suddenly (without any prophetic announcement)
1057      V|                again? I mean this flesh suffused with blood, built up with
1058     XI|            exists is a bodily existence sui generis. Nothing lacks bodily
1059 XXVIII|             else, from what can we more suitably suppose that the Word became
1060     XX|                 is drawn in order to be sundered? If He clove not to the
1061     II|                that large (treatise) is superfluous, when we ask the reason
1062    III|             will you deprive God, their superior, of this faculty, as if
1063     IX|               Like Our Own. None of the Supernatural Features Which the Heretics
1064  XXVII|              may lose no opportunity of supporting my argument from the name
1065     XX|        lactation the monthly issues are suspended. But if the Word was made
1066    III|               consistency would He have sustained the human character on the
1067     IV|              Jupiter became a bull or a swan, if we listen to Marcion,
1068    XXI|             posterity in the flesh, God swears to him that "He will raise
1069     XX|                 your attempt to rob the syllable ex (of) of its proper force
1070  XXVII|              leaving Alexander with his syllogisms, which he so perversely
1071    VII|                there is a figure of the synagogue, as well as of the Jews
1072     IV|               of a beast either wild or tame, your censure (I imagine)
1073     VI|             from Him. But it is an easy task for the truth to prevail
1074     VI|          purpose of being crucified, of tasting death, and of rising again
1075    VII|               the sense in which He has taught us to deny ours ---- for
1076     II|               with that eternal plaguey taxing of Caesar, and the scanty
1077     VI|        compelled to be wiser than their teacher, concede to Christ real
1078      V|                appetite, eating without teeth, speaking without a tongue,
1079    XVI|               true fashion of heretical temper, has made himself conspicuous
1080     II|                 him be brought into the temple, lest he burden his parents
1081    VII|               the time aware of. No one tempts (another) in a way in which
1082      X|                they assume it as a main tenet, that Christ came forth
1083    XIV|              that is, a messenger, by a term expressive of official function,
1084   XIII|              flesh; nowhere is the soul termed flesh, or the flesh, soul;
1085   XXII|                 The whole discussion is terminated by the same apostle, when
1086    XXV|        challenged these opinions to the test, both of the arguments which
1087    VII|               mother and brothers, they tested His divinity rather than
1088      X|           Christ's Flesh Was of a Finer Texture, Animalis, Composed of Soul.~[
1089       | Thee
1090       | thence
1091     IX|             offer us for your celestial theory? Why deny it to be earthy,
1092     XX|                from it? If He who clove thereto was drawn from it, how could
1093    VII|                there is some ground for thinking that Christ's answer denies
1094     XX|              mother's belly." Here is a third point. Now let us carefully
1095     IX|              the devil's temptation; He thirsted with the woman of Samaria;
1096     XI|              exhibited even a soul of a thoroughly human condition, not making
1097   XXIV|               on a solitary mountain to three companions, clothed with
1098    XXI|                raise up to sit upon his throne." If "of David's loins,"
1099       | throughout
1100    VII|              temptation might have been thwarted thus: [7] it might have
1101     XX|                 was in the womb, He was tied to it, as to His origin,
1102    III|             desired to be let loose, so tightly was he held. [7] Has it,
1103   XXIV|           magnanimous, but the other as timid; lastly, one as suffering
1104    VII|                and since He shows their title to this favour ---- even
1105      V|               laid in a manger, or in a tomb? Talk of "wisdom!" You will
1106     VI|               the apostle will reply in tones like those in which he even
1107     XX|               the body from which it is torn, as if in consequence of
1108   XXII|                 In what way so ever you torture the statement, He is either
1109     IX|             Would any man have dared to touch even with his little finger,
1110     XX|                 that Matthew also, when tracing down the Lord's descent
1111     IV|           rejection of error, the whole training in righteousness, chastity,
1112    XXI|                mother (assisting in the transaction), why should not the novelty
1113     XX|             mammilla, and in the act of transference convert the secretion into
1114     VI|        corporeal; and yet they could be transfigured into human shape, and for
1115     XX|             possibly have had blood for transformation into milk, unless it possessed
1116    Pre|                                         Translated by Dr. Holmes.]~ ----  ----  ---- ~
1117     II|                 inasmuch as it had been transmitted by those whose duty it was
1118     IV|              shame itself of a woman in travail which, however, ought rather
1119     IX|             hair as grass, and the very treasures of marrow within our bones
1120   VIII|                  3] This indeed we have treated of in a passage by itself;
1121   VIII|               out of it. And "a corrupt tree must needs bring forth evil
1122     IX|                He wept over Lazarus; He trembles at death (for "the flesh,"
1123    VII|                 what was without; being tried by the untrue announcement
1124 XXVIII|            Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. He is Here Called, as Often
1125     XV|            enemies, so as to be able to triumph over them in company with
1126      V|              from heaven, but from some troop of mountebanks, not as God
1127     IV|                 from day to day, heavy, troublesome, restless even in sleep,
1128      V|              blood, clothed without the tunic of skin, hungry without
1129     IV|               redeemed. And are you for turning these conditions into occasions
1130  XXIII|                no equivocation, nothing twisted into a double sense. Light
1131  XXVII|             other instances, in ancient type, the Lord being born as
1132     XX|                as to His origin, by the umbilical cord, which communicated
1133   XIII|                 the Soul Both Fully and Un-Confusedly Contained in It.~[1] The
1134   XIII|               flesh expressed in simple un-figurative terms; that is to say, the
1135    III|           either impossible for God, or unbecoming to Him. With God, however,
1136    VII|              well as of the Jews in the unbelieving brethren. In their person
1137      V|              respect born, in the other unborn; in one respect fleshly
1138     IV|             itself, declaim against the uncleanness of the generative elements
1139     IV|            mother's womb amidst all its uncleannesses, even that man who was brought
1140    VII|               father than a mother, and uncles more likely than brothers.
1141   VIII|                 the truth of the entire uncorrupted gospel, ought to have been
1142    XIV|                 the servants because He undertook the office of a servant.
1143   XXII|             recent progenitor! [5] For, unfolding the promised blessing upon
1144   XIII|             become flesh, the soul is a uniform solid body; it is also a
1145   XIII|              world," ---- the number is unimpaired of two substances distinct
1146     XX|                 of the severance of the union and growth which the constituent
1147   XIII|                kind, thus excluding the unique species of the flesh-comprised
1148      V|             possibly have undergone the unreal mockeries of an imaginary
1149  XXVII|                out of a flesh which was unstained as yet by any human generation.
1150    VII|              temptation about His birth unsuitable, for it might have been
1151    VII|             without; being tried by the untrue announcement of the presence
1152     IX|            Christ, if it had been of an unusual nature; or to smear His
1153   XXII|              son of David; but whatever unworthiness there be in this testimony,
1154     XX|                 of greater emphasis, he uses the word "made" rather than
1155     XX|                 s breasts, whether they usually flow at any other time than
1156    VII|               also is wont to do to the utmost that which He enjoins on
1157      V|                                 Chapter V.  ---- Christ Truly Lived
1158     XI|                 a man covers him with a veil or a mask. This, however,
1159    III|                have even borne about so veritable a body, that Abraham even
1160      I|                that is in question. Its verity and quality are the points
1161   XXII|                  Even in Its Very First Verse, Testifies to Christ's True
1162     VI|                                 Chapter VI.  ---- The Doctrine of Apelles
1163     XV|              happen) to ourselves? Such views are not improper for heathens
1164    VII|                                 Chapter VII.  ---- Explanation of the
1165   VIII|                                 Chapter VIII.  ---- Apelles and His Followers,
1166     IV|              the Incarnation of His Son Vindicated. Marcion's Disparagement
1167    XIV|                  4] For the Lord of the Vineyard sends even His Son to the
1168     XX|                 regeneration might have virginal purity, ---- spiritually
1169    VII|               stage play, or had laid a wager on a foot race or a chariot
1170     XI|           believe that He who willed to walk the earth as a man exhibited
1171     IV|                 fleshly nature too, who wallowed in all the before-mentioned
1172    III|                come to an end from thus wanting permanence, whilst they
1173    XIX|              which, as all know, is the warm blood as convected by ebullition
1174     XV|                of all their contentious warmth and artifice. [3] For, as
1175     IX|               two elements of earth and water, ---- from the former by
1176      I|          armoury, whence they get their weapons of destruction. [2] Let
1177  XXIII|              abstinence) from a husband went, and "yet not a virgin,"
1178     IX|                the woman of Samaria; He wept over Lazarus; He trembles
1179       | whenever
1180       | Whereas
1181    XIV|                it) as a powerful helper wherewithal to execute the salvation
1182      V|                not ashamed of my Lord. "Whosoever," says He, "shall be ashamed
1183     IV|              the body of a beast either wild or tame, your censure (I
1184    VII|              reality of Christ's flesh, wilfully deny that God Himself was
1185     IX|                 courses of the veins as winding rivulets, and the down (
1186     VI|                 Pontus, compelled to be wiser than their teacher, concede
1187     XI|             which it is. [5] No one who wishes to exhibit a man covers
1188      I|                Apelles, and Valentinus, Wishing to Impugn the Doctrine of
1189     IV|               show us your man; or else withdraw the flesh, and then present
1190    III|               case of the angels. Their withdrawal was effected in the same
1191   XXIV|               sheath only, Christ being withdrawn from it; as well as those
1192   XXIV|            heretics, especially in his "Woe to them that call evil good,
1193     XX|             tell us, from the nature of women's breasts, whether they
1194     IX|               all things else about Him wonderful, as when they said, "Whence
1195    VII|                from Him. Christ also is wont to do to the utmost that
1196     IX|                 wisdom and these mighty works? " [6] Thus spake even they
1197     XV|                to be, "not a man, but a worm; " who also had "no form
1198     IV|                conversion of men to the worship of the true God, the rejection
1199    VII|                a preferable sense and a worthier brotherhood, with the repudiation
1200    III|              hands; an angel, moreover, wrestled with a man so strenuously
1201     XV|              some writer of Valentinus' wretched faction, they refuse at
1202     XV|                  as I have read in some writer of Valentinus' wretched
1203     XV|                it is of Him that Isaiah writes: "A man of suffering, and
1204   VIII|              The world, then, must be a wrong thing, according to the
1205      X|                                 Chapter X.  ---- Another Class of
1206     XI|                                 Chapter XI.  ---- The Opposite Extravagance
1207    XII|                                 Chapter XII.  ---- The True Functions
1208   XIII|                                 Chapter XIII.  ---- Christ's Human Nature.
1209    XIV|                                 Chapter XIV.  ---- Christ Took Not on
1210    XIX|                                 Chapter XIX.  ---- Christ, as to His
1211     XV|                                 Chapter XV.  ---- The Valentinian Figment
1212    XVI|                                 Chapter XVI.  ---- Christ's Flesh in
1213  XXVII|                                 Chapter XVII.  ---- The Similarity of
1214 XXVIII|                                 Chapter XVIII.  ---- The Mystery of the
1215     XX|                                 Chapter XX.  ---- Christ Born of a
1216    XXI|                                 Chapter XXI.  ---- The Word of God Did
1217   XXII|                                 Chapter XXII.  ---- Holy Scripture in
1218  XXIII|                                 Chapter XXIII.  ---- Simeon's "Sign that
1219   XXIV|                                 Chapter XXIV.  ---- Divine Strictures
1220    XXV|                                 Chapter XXV.  ---- Conclusion. This
1221       | yours
1222    XIV|               Him, just as there was in Zechariah. [6] Only it was never said