Tertullian, Against Hermogenes. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.
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- Against Hermogenes Chapter 1 — III. Containing an Argument Against His Opinion that Matter is Eternal. Chapter I.—The Opinions of Hermogenes, by the Prescriptive Rule of Antiquity Shown to Be Heretical. Not Derived from Christianity, But from…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 2 — Hermogenes, After a Perverse Induction from Mere Heretical Assumptions, Concludes that God Created All Things Out of Pre-Existing Matter. Chapter II.—Hermogenes, After a Perverse Induction from Mere Heretical…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 3 — Chapter III.—An Argument of Hermogenes. The Answer: While God is a Title Eternally Applicable to the Divine Being, Lord and Father are Only Relative Appellations, Not Eternally Applicable. An Inconsistency in the…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 4 — Hermogenes Gives Divine Attributes to Matter, and So Makes Two Gods. At this point, then, I shall begin to treat of Matter, how that, (according to Hermogenes,) God compares it with Himself as equally unborn, equally…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 5 — Chapter V.—Hermogenes Coquets with His Own Argument, as If Rather Afraid of It. After Investing Matter with Divine Qualities, He Tries to Make It Somehow Inferior to God. But God is God, and Matter is Matter. As if a…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 6 — The Shifts to Which Hermogenes is Reduced, Who Deifies Matter, and Yet is Unwilling to Hold Him Equal with the Divine Creator. Chapter VI.—The Shifts to Which Hermogenes is Reduced, Who Deifies Matter, and Yet is…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 7 — Hermogenes Held to His Theory in Order that Its Absurdity May Be Exposed on His Own Principles. Chapter VII.—Hermogenes Held to His Theory in Order that Its Absurdity May Be Exposed on His Own Principles. When he…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 8 — On His Own Principles, Hermogenes Makes Matter, on the Whole, Superior to God. Chapter VIII.—On His Own Principles, Hermogenes Makes Matter, on the Whole, Superior to God. Nay more, he even prefers Matter to God, and…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 9 — Sundry Inevitable But Intolerable Conclusions from the Principles of Hermogenes. Chapter IX.—Sundry Inevitable But Intolerable Conclusions from the Principles of Hermogenes. He cannot say that it was as its Lord that…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 10 — To What Straits Hermogenes Absurdly Reduces the Divine Being. He Does Nothing Short of Making Him the Author of Evil. Chapter X.—To What Straits Hermogenes Absurdly Reduces the Divine Being. He Does Nothing Short of…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 11 — Hermogenes Makes Great Efforts to Remove Evil from God to Matter. How He Fails to Do This Consistently with His Own Argument. Chapter XI.—Hermogenes Makes Great Efforts to Remove Evil from God to Matter. How He Fails…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 12 — The Mode of Controversy Changed. The Premisses of Hermogenes Accepted, in Order to Show into What Confusion They Lead Him. Chapter XII.—The Mode of Controversy Changed. The Premisses of Hermogenes Accepted, in Order…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 13 — Another Ground of Hermogenes that Matter Has Some Good in It. Its Absurdity. Here the question will arise How creatures were made good out of it, which were formed without any change at all? How occurs the seed of…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 14 — Tertullian Pushes His Opponent into a Dilemma. Now, if it be also argued, that although Matter may have afforded Him the opportunity, it was still His own will which led Him to the creation of good creatures, as…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 15 — The Truth, that God Made All Things from Nothing, Rescued from the Opponent's Flounderings. Chapter XV.—The Truth, that God Made All Things from Nothing, Rescued from the Opponent’s Flounderings. Now, if good was…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 16 — A Series of Dilemmas. They Show that Hermogenes Cannot Escape from the Orthodox Conclusion. Chapter XVI.—A Series of Dilemmas. They Show that Hermogenes Cannot Escape from the Orthodox Conclusion. On the very…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 17 — The Truth of God's Work in Creation. You Cannot Depart in the Least from It, Without Landing Yourself in an Absurdity. Chapter XVII.—The Truth of God’s Work in Creation. You Cannot Depart in the Least from It,…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 — An Eulogy on the Wisdom and Word of God, by Which God Made All Things of Nothing. Chapter XVIII.—An Eulogy on the Wisdom and Word of God, by Which God Made All Things of Nothing. If any material was necessary to God…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 19 — An Appeal to the History of Creation. True Meaning of the Term Beginning, Which the Heretic Curiously Wrests to an Absurd Sense. Chapter XIX.—An Appeal to the History of Creation. True Meaning of the Term Beginning,…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 20 — Chapter XX.—Meaning of the Phrase—In the Beginning. Tertullian Connects It with the Wisdom of God, and Elicits from It the Truth that the Creation Was Not Out of Pre-Existent Matter. But in proof that the Greek word…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 21 — A Retort of Heresy Answered. That Scripture Should in So Many Words Tell Us that the World Was Made of Nothing is Superfluous. Chapter XXI.—A Retort of Heresy Answered. That Scripture Should in So Many Words Tell Us…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 22 — Chapter XXII.—This Conclusion Confirmed by the Usage of Holy Scripture in Its History of the Creation. Hermogenes in Danger of the Woe Pronounced Against Adding to Scripture. And to such a degree has the Holy Ghost…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 23 — Hermogenes Pursued to Another Passage of Scripture. The Absurdity of His Interpretation Exposed. Chapter XXIII.—Hermogenes Pursued to Another Passage of Scripture. The Absurdity of His Interpretation Exposed. But he…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 24 — Earth Does Not Mean Matter as Hermogenes Would Have It. I now return to the several points by means of which he thought that Matter was signified. And first I will inquire about the terms. For we read only of one of…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 25 — The Assumption that There are Two Earths Mentioned in the History of the Creation, Refuted. Chapter XXV.—The Assumption that There are Two Earths Mentioned in the History of the Creation, Refuted. He accordingly…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 26 — The Method Observed in the History of the Creation, in Reply to the Perverse Interpretation of Hermogenes. Chapter XXVI.—The Method Observed in the History of the Creation, in Reply to the Perverse Interpretation of…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 27 — Some Hair-Splitting Use of Words in Which His Opponent Had Indulged. But you next praise your eyebrows, and toss back your head, and beckon with your finger, in characteristic disdain, and say: There is the was,…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 28 — A Curious Inconsistency in Hermogenes Exposed. Certain Expressions in The History of Creation Vindicated in The True Sense. Chapter XXVIII.—A Curious Inconsistency in Hermogenes Exposed. Certain Expressions in The…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 29 — The Gradual Development of Cosmical Order Out of Chaos in the Creation, Beautifully Stated. Chapter XXIX.—The Gradual Development of Cosmical Order Out of Chaos in the Creation, Beautifully Stated. God, indeed,…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 30 — Another Passage in the Sacred History of the Creation, Released from the Mishandling of Hermogenes. Chapter XXX.—Another Passage in the Sacred History of the Creation, Released from the Mishandling of Hermogenes. The…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 31 — A Further Vindication of the Scripture Narrative of the Creation, Against a Futile View of Hermogenes. Chapter XXXI.—A Further Vindication of the Scripture Narrative of the Creation, Against a Futile View of…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 32 — Chapter XXXII.—The Account of the Creation in Genesis a General One, Corroborated, However, by Many Other Passages of the Old Testament, Which Give Account of Specific Creations. Further Cavillings Confuted. This is…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 33 — Statement of the True Doctrine Concerning Matter. Its Relation to God's Creation of the World. Chapter XXXIII.—Statement of the True Doctrine Concerning Matter. Its Relation to God’s Creation of the World. But…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 34 — Chapter XXXIV.—A Presumption that All Things Were Created by God Out of Nothing Afforded by the Ultimate Reduction of All Things to Nothing. Scriptures Proving This Reduction Vindicated from Hermogenes’ Charge of…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 35 — Contradictory Propositions Advanced by Hermogenes Respecting Matter and Its Qualities. Chapter XXXV.—Contradictory Propositions Advanced by Hermogenes Respecting Matter and Its Qualities. As regards all other points…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 36 — Chapter XXXVI.—Other Absurd Theories Respecting Matter and Its Incidents Exposed in an Ironical Strain. Motion in Matter. Hermogenes’ Conceits Respecting It. But see what a contradiction he next advances (or perhaps…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 37 — Ironical Dilemmas Respecting Matter, and Sundry Moral Qualities Fancifully Attributed to It. Chapter XXXVII.—Ironical Dilemmas Respecting Matter, and Sundry Moral Qualities Fancifully Attributed to It. I see now that…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 38 — Other Speculations of Hermogenes, About Matter and Some of Its Adjuncts, Shown to Be Absurd. For Instance, Its Alleged Infinity. Chapter XXXIII.—Other Speculations of Hermogenes, About Matter and Some of Its…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 39 — These Latter Speculations Shown to Be Contradictory to the First Principles Respecting Matter, Formerly Laid Down by Hermogenes. Chapter XXXIX.—These Latter Speculations Shown to Be Contradictory to the First…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 40 — Chapter XL.—Shapeless Matter an Incongruous Origin for God’s Beautiful Cosmos. Hermogenes Does Not Mend His Argument by Supposing that Only a Portion of Matter Was Used in the Creation. You say that Matter was…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 41 — Chapter XLI.—Sundry Quotations from Hermogenes. Now Uncertain and Vague are His Speculations Respecting Motion in Matter, and the Material Qualities of Good and Evil. I come back to the point of motion, that I may…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 42 — Further Exposure of Inconsistencies in the Opinions of Hermogenes Respecting the Divine Qualities of Matter. Chapter XLII.—Further Exposure of Inconsistencies in the Opinions of Hermogenes Respecting the Divine…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 43 — Other Discrepancies Exposed and Refuted Respecting the Evil in Matter Being Changed to Good. Chapter XLIII.—Other Discrepancies Exposed and Refuted Respecting the Evil in Matter Being Changed to Good. On the subject…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 44 — Chapter XLIV.—Curious Views Respecting God’s Method of Working with Matter Exposed. Discrepancies in the Heretic’s Opinion About God’s Local Relation to Matter. But it remains that I should show also how you make God…vatican.va
- Against Hermogenes Chapter 45 — Chapter XLV.—Conclusion. Contrast Between the Statements of Hermogenes and the Testimony of Holy Scripture Respecting the Creation. Creation Out of Nothing, Not Out of Matter. But it is not thus that the prophets and…vatican.va
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