Tertullian, On the Flesh of Christ. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (Roberts and Donaldson, 1885), public domain.
Passages · 25
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 1 — V. This was written by our author in confutation of certain heretics who denied the reality of Christ’s flesh, or at least its identity with human flesh—fearing that, if they admitted the reality of Christ’s flesh,…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 2 — Marcion, Who Would Blot Out the Record of Christ's Nativity, is Rebuked for So Startling a Heresy. Chapter II.—Marcion, Who Would Blot Out the Record of Christ’s Nativity, is Rebuked for So Startling a Heresy.…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 3 — Chapter III.—Christ’s Nativity Both Possible and Becoming. The Heretical Opinion of Christ’s Apparent Flesh Deceptive and Dishonourable to God, Even on Marcion’s Principles. Since you think that this lay within the…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 4 — Chapter IV.—God’s Honour in the Incarnation of His Son Vindicated. Marcion’s Disparagement of Human Flesh Inconsistent as Well as Impious. Christ Has Cleansed the Flesh. The Foolishness of God is Most Wise. Since,…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 5 — Christ Truly Lived and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human Life on Earth, and Refutation of Marcion's Docetic Parody of the Same. Chapter V.—Christ Truly Lived and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 6 — Chapter VI.—The Doctrine of Apelles Refuted, that Christ’s Body Was of Sidereal Substance, Not Born. Nativity and Mortality are Correlative Circumstances, and in Christ’s Case His Death Proves His Birth. But certain…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 7 — Chapter VII.—Explanation of the Lord’s Question About His Mother and His Brethren. Answer to the Cavils of Apelles and Marcion, Who Support Their Denial of Christ’s Nativity by It. But whenever a dispute arises about…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 8 — Chapter VIII.—Apelles and His Followers, Displeased with Our Earthly Bodies, Attributed to Christ a Body of a Purer Sort. How Christ Was Heavenly Even in His Earthly Flesh. These passages alone, in which Apelles and…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 9 — Chapter IX.—Christ’s Flesh Perfectly Natural, Like Our Own. None of the Supernatural Features Which the Heretics Ascribed to It Discoverable, on a Careful View. We have thus far gone on the principle, that nothing…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 10 — Another Class of Heretics Refuted. They Alleged that Christ's Flesh Was of a Finer Texture, Animalis, Composed of Soul. Chapter X.—Another Class of Heretics Refuted. They Alleged that Christ’s Flesh Was of a Finer…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 11 — Chapter XI.—The Opposite Extravagance Exposed. That is Christ with a Soul Composed of Flesh—Corporeal, Though Invisible. Christ’s Soul, Like Ours, Distinct from Flesh, Though Clothed in It. But we meet another…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 12 — Chapter XII.—The True Functions of the Soul. Christ Assumed It in His Perfect Human Nature, Not to Reveal and Explain It, But to Save It. Its Resurrection with the Body Assured by Christ. Well, now, let it be granted…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 13 — Christ's Human Nature. The Flesh and the Soul Both Fully and Unconfusedly Contained in It. Chapter XIII.—Christ’s Human Nature. The Flesh and the Soul Both Fully and Unconfusedly Contained in It. The soul became…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 14 — Christ Took Not on Him an Angelic Nature, But the Human. It Was Men, Not Angels, Whom He Came to Save. Chapter XIV.—Christ Took Not on Him an Angelic Nature, But the Human. It Was Men, Not Angels, Whom He Came to…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 15 — The Valentinian Figment of Christ's Flesh Being of a Spiritual Nature, Examined and Refuted Out of Scripture. Chapter XV.—The Valentinian Figment of Christ’s Flesh Being of a Spiritual Nature, Examined and Refuted…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 16 — Chapter XVI.—Christ’s Flesh in Nature, the Same as Ours, Only Sinless. The Difference Between Carnem Peccati and Peccatum Carnis: It is the Latter Which Christ Abolished. The Flesh of the First Adam, No Less Than…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 17 — Chapter XVII.—The Similarity of Circumstances Between the First and the Second Adam, as to the Derivation of Their Flesh. An Analogy Also Pleasantly Traced Between Eve and the Virgin Mary. But, leaving Alexander with…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 18 — Chapter XVIII.—The Mystery of the Assumption of Our Perfect Human Nature by the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity. He is Here Called, as Often Elsewhere, the Spirit. Now, that we may give a simpler answer, it was…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 19 — Chapter XIX.—Christ, as to His Divine Nature, as the Word of God, Became Flesh, Not by Carnal Conception, Nor by the Will of the Flesh and of Man, But by the Will of God. Christ’s Divine Nature, of Its Own Accord,…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 20 — Chapter XX.—Christ Born of a Virgin, of Her Substance. The Physiological Facts of His Real and Exact Birth of a Human Mother, as Suggested by Certain Passages of Scripture. But to what shifts you resort, in your…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 21 — Chapter XXI.—The Word of God Did Not Become Flesh Except in the Virgin’s Womb and of Her Substance. Through His Mother He is Descended from Her Great Ancestor David. He is Described Both in the Old and in the New…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 22 — Chapter XXII.—Holy Scripture in the New Testament, Even in Its Very First Verse, Testifies to Christ’s True Flesh. In Virtue of Which He is Incorporated in the Human Stock of David, and Abraham, and Adam. They may,…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 23 — Chapter XXIII.—Simeon’s “Sign that Should Be Contradicted,” Applied to the Heretical Gainsaying of the True Birth of Christ. One of the Heretics’ Paradoxes Turned in Support of Catholic Truth. We acknowledge,…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 24 — Chapter XXIV.—Divine Strictures on Various Heretics Descried in Various Passages of Prophetical Scripture. Those Who Assail the True Doctrine of the One Lord Jesus Christ, Both God and Man, Thus Condemned. For when…vatican.va
- On the Flesh of Christ Chapter 25 — Chapter XXV.—Conclusion. This Treatise Forms a Preface to the Other Work, “On the Resurrection of the Flesh,” Proving the Reality of the Flesh Which Was Truly Born, and Died, and Rose Again. But let this suffice on…vatican.va
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Genesis 2:7 · Exodus 13:2 · Job 10:10 · Psalm 8:5 · Psalm 8:6 · Psalm 22:6 · Psalm 22:9 · Psalm 22:10 · Psalm 78:24 · Psalm 132:11 · Isaiah 5:20 · Isaiah 7:14 · Isaiah 45:5 · Isaiah 46:9 · Isaiah 53:2 · Isaiah 53:3 · Isaiah 63:9 · Jeremiah 17:9 · Jeremiah 31:15 · Daniel 7:13 · Zechariah 1:14 · Matthew 1:1 · Matthew 1:16 · Matthew 1:20 · Matthew 1:23 · Matthew 2:1 · Matthew 2:11 · Matthew 2:16 · Matthew 2:17 · Matthew 2:18 · Matthew 3:16 · Matthew 5:37 · Matthew 7:17 · Matthew 10:33 · Matthew 12:8 · Matthew 12:41 · Matthew 12:42 · Matthew 12:48 · Matthew 13:54 · Matthew 22:23 · Matthew 25:41 · Matthew 26:38 · Matthew 26:41 · Mark 8:38 · Luke 1:26 · Luke 1:27 · Luke 1:28 · Luke 1:29 · Luke 1:30 · Luke 1:31 · Luke 1:32 · Luke 1:33 · Luke 1:34 · Luke 1:35 · Luke 1:36 · Luke 1:37 · Luke 1:38 · Luke 1:41 · Luke 1:42 · Luke 1:43 · Luke 2:1 · Luke 2:2 · Luke 2:3 · Luke 2:4 · Luke 2:5 · Luke 2:6 · Luke 2:7 · Luke 2:8 · Luke 2:13 · Luke 2:22 · Luke 2:23 · Luke 2:24 · Luke 2:25 · Luke 2:26 · Luke 2:27 · Luke 2:28 · Luke 2:29 · Luke 2:30 · Luke 2:31 · Luke 2:32 · Luke 2:33 · Luke 2:34 · Luke 2:35 · Luke 2:36 · Luke 2:37 · Luke 2:38 · Luke 8:20 · Luke 8:21 · Luke 9:26 · Luke 9:56 · Luke 10:25 · Luke 11:27 · Luke 11:28 · Luke 24:39 · John 1:13 · John 1:14 · John 3:6 · John 6:51 · John 7:5 · John 8:40 · Acts 1:11 · Acts 2:22 · Acts 2:30 · Romans 1:3 · Romans 6:6 · Romans 8:3 · 1 Corinthians 1:27 · 1 Corinthians 2:2 · 1 Corinthians 15:47 · Galatians 1:8 · Galatians 3:8 · Galatians 3:16 · Galatians 4:4 · Philippians 2:8 · 1 Timothy 1:20 · 1 Timothy 2:5 · 2 Timothy 2:8 · 2 Timothy 4:14 · 1 John 1:2 · 1 John 4:3