The Five Books Against Marcion, Book III

Book III

• The Five Books Against Marcion III.1 — Why Christ's Coming Should Be Previously Announced. Coming then at once to the point, I have to encounter the question, Whether Christ ought to have come so suddenly? (I answer, No.) First, because He was the Son of…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.2 — Miracles Alone, Without Prophecy, an Insufficient Evidence of Christ's Mission. Chapter III.—Miracles Alone, Without Prophecy, an Insufficient Evidence of Christ’s Mission. A procedure of this kind, you say, was not…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.3 — Marcion's Christ Not the Subject of Prophecy. The Absurd Consequences of This Theory of the Heretic. Chapter IV.—Marcion’s Christ Not the Subject of Prophecy. The Absurd Consequences of This Theory of the Heretic. He…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.4 — Sundry Features of the Prophetic Style: Principles of Its Interpretation. These preliminary remarks I have ventured to make at this first step of the discussion and while the conflict is, as it were, from a distance.…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.5 — Community in Certain Points of Marcionite and Jewish Error. Prophecies of Christ's Rejection Examined. Chapter VI.—Community in Certain Points of Marcionite and Jewish Error. Prophecies of Christ’s Rejection…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.6 — Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, One Lowly, the Other Majestic. This Fact Points to Two Advents of Christ. Chapter VII.—Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, One Lowly, the…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.7 — Absurdity of Marcion's Docetic Opinions; Reality of Christ's Incarnation. Our heretic must now cease to borrow poison from the Jew—“the asp,” as the adage runs, “from the viper”—and henceforth vomit forth the…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.8 — Refutation of Marcion's Objections Derived from the Cases of the Angels, and the Pre-Incarnate Manifestations of the Son of God. Chapter IX.—Refutation of Marcion’s Objections Derived from the Cases of the Angels,…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.9 — The Truly Incarnate State More Worthy of God Than Marcion's Fantastic Flesh. Therefore, since you are not permitted to resort to any instances of the Creator, as alien from the subject, and possessing special causes…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.10 — Christ Was Truly Born; Marcion's Absurd Cavil in Defence of a Putative Nativity. Chapter XI.—Christ Was Truly Born; Marcion’s Absurd Cavil in Defence of a Putative Nativity. All these illusions of an imaginary…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.11 — Isaiah's Prophecy of Emmanuel. Christ Entitled to that Name. And challenge us first, as is your wont, to consider Isaiah’s description of Christ, while you contend that in no point does it suit. For, to begin with,…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.12 — Chapter XIII.—Isaiah’s Prophecies Considered. The Virginity of Christ’s Mother a Sign. Other Prophecies Also Signs. Metaphorical Sense of Proper Names in Sundry Passages of the Prophets. You are equally led away by…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.13 — Figurative Style of Certain Messianic Prophecies in the Psalms. Military Metaphors Applied to Christ. Chapter XIV.—Figurative Style of Certain Messianic Prophecies in the Psalms. Military Metaphors Applied to Christ.…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.14 — The Title Christ Suitable as a Name of the Creator's Son, But Unsuited to Marcion's Christ. Chapter XV.—The Title Christ Suitable as a Name of the Creator’s Son, But Unsuited to Marcion’s Christ. Touching then the…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.15 — The Sacred Name Jesus Most Suited to the Christ of the Creator. Joshua a Type of Him. Chapter XVI.—The Sacred Name Jesus Most Suited to the Christ of the Creator. Joshua a Type of Him. Now if he caught at the name…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.16 — Prophecies in Isaiah and the Psalms Respecting Christ's Humiliation. Let us compare with Scripture the rest of His dispensation. Whatever that poor despised body may be, because it was an object of touch and sight,…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.17 — Types of the Death of Christ. Isaac; Joseph; Jacob Against Simeon and Levi; Moses Praying Against Amalek; The Brazen Serpent. Chapter XVIII.—Types of the Death of Christ. Isaac; Joseph; Jacob Against Simeon and Levi;…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.18 — Prophecies of the Death of Christ. Come now, when you read in the words of David, how that “the Lord reigneth from the tree,” I want to know what you understand by it. Perhaps you think some wooden king of the Jews…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.19 — The Subsequent Influence of Christ's Death in the World Predicted. The Sure Mercies of David. What These are. Chapter XX.—The Subsequent Influence of Christ’s Death in the World Predicted. The Sure Mercies of David.…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.20 — The Call of the Gentiles Under the Influence of the Gospel Foretold. So you cannot get out of this notion of yours a basis for your difference between the two Christs, as if the Jewish Christ were ordained by the…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.21 — The Success of the Apostles, and Their Sufferings in the Cause of the Gospel, Foretold. Chapter XXII.—The Success of the Apostles, and Their Sufferings in the Cause of the Gospel, Foretold. You have the work of the…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.22 — The Dispersion of the Jews, and Their Desolate Condition for Rejecting Christ, Foretold. Chapter XXIII.—The Dispersion of the Jews, and Their Desolate Condition for Rejecting Christ, Foretold. Now, since you join the…vatican.va
• The Five Books Against Marcion III.23 — Christ's Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company with His Saints. Yes, certainly, you say, I do hope from Him that which amounts in itself to a proof of the diversity (of Christs), God’s kingdom in an everlasting…vatican.va