Contents
- Introductory Notes
- Book I. Wherein is described the god of Marcion. He is shown to be utterly…
- Preface. Reason for a New Work. Pontus Lends Its Rough Character to the Heretic…
- Marcion, Aided by Cerdon, Teaches a Duality of Gods; How He Constructed This…
- The Unity of God. He is the Supreme Being, and There Cannot Be a Second Supreme
- Defence of the Divine Unity Against Objection. No Analogy Between Human Powers…
- The Dual Principle Falls to the Ground; Plurality of Gods, of Whatever Number…
- Marcion Untrue to His Theory. He Pretends That His Gods Are Equal, But He…
- Other Beings Besides God Are in Scripture Called God. This Objection Frivolous…
- Specific Points. The Novelty of Marcion's God Fatal to His Pretensions. God is…
- Marcion's Gnostic Pretensions Vain, for the True God is Neither Unknown Nor…
- The Creator Was Known as the True God From the First by His Creation…
- The Evidence for God External to Him; But the External Creation Which Yields…
- Impossibility of Acknowledging God Without This External Evidence Of His…
- The Marcionites Depreciate the Creation, Which, However, is a Worthy Witness of…
- All Portions of Creation Attest the Excellence of the Creator, Whom Marcion…
- The Lateness of the Revelation of Marcion's God. The Question of the Place…
- Marcion Assumes the Existence of Two Gods From the Antithesis Between Things…
- Not Enough, as the Marcionites Pretend, That the Supreme God Should Rescue Man…
- Notwithstanding Their Conceits, the God of the Marcionites Fails in the…
- Jesus Christ, the Revealer of the Creator, Could Not Be the Same as Marcion's…
- Marcion, Justifying His Antithesis Between the Law and the Gospel by the…
- St. Paul Preached No New God, When He Announced the Repeal of Some of God's…
- God's Attribute of Goodness Considered as Natural; The God of Marcion Found…
- God's Attribute of Goodness Considered as Rational. Marcion's God Defective…
- The Goodness of Marcion's God Only Imperfectly Manifested; It Saves But Few…
- God is Not a Being of Simple Goodness; Other Attributes Belong to Him. Marcion…
- In the Attribute of Justice, Marcion's God is Hopelessly Weak and Ungodlike. He…
- Dangerous Effects to Religion and Morality of the Doctrine of So Weak a God
- This Perverse Doctrine Deprives Baptism of All Its Grace. If Marcion Be Right…
- Marcion Forbids Marriage. Tertullian Eloquently Defends It as Holy, and…
- Book II. Wherein Tertullian shows that the creator, or demiurge, whom Marcion…
- The Methods of Marcion's Argument Incorrect and Absurd. The Proper Course of…
- The True Doctrine of God the Creator. The Heretics Pretended to a Knowledge of…
- God Known by His Works. His Goodness Shown in His Creative Energy; But…
- The Next Stage Occurs in the Creation of Man by the Eternal Word. Spiritual as…
- Marcion's Cavils Considered. His Objection Refuted, I.e., Man's Fall Showed…
- This Liberty Vindicated in Respect of Its Original Creation; Suitable Also for…
- If God Had Anyhow Checked Man's Liberty, Marcion Would Have Been Ready With…
- Man, Endued With Liberty, Superior to the Angels, Overcomes Even the Angel…
- Another Cavil Answered, I.e., the Fall Imputable to God, Because Man's Soul is…
- Another Cavil Met, I.e., the Devil Who Instigated Man to Sin Himself the…
- If, After Man's Sin, God Exercised His Attribute of Justice and Judgment, This…
- The Attributes of Goodness and Justice Should Not Be Separated. They Are…
- Further Description of the Divine Justice; Since the Fall of Man It Has…
- Evil of Two Kinds, Penal and Criminal. It is Not of the Latter Sort That God is…
- The Severity of God Compatible With Reason and Justice. When Inflicted, Not…
- To the Severity of God There Belong Accessory Qualities, Compatible With…
- Trace God's Government in History and in His Precepts, and You Will Find It…
- Some of God's Laws Defended as Good, Which the Marcionites Impeached, Such as…
- The Minute Prescriptions of the Law Meant to Keep the People Dependent on God…
- The Marcionites Charged God With Having Instigated the Hebrews to Spoil the…
- The Law of the Sabbath-Day Explained. The Eight Days' Procession Around…
- The Brazen Serpent and the Golden Cherubim Were Not Violations of the Second…
- God's Purposes in Election and Rejection of the Same Men, Such as King Saul…
- Instances of God's Repentance, and Notably in the Case of the Ninevites…
- God's Dealings With Adam at the Fall, and With Cain After His Crime, Admirably…
- The Oath of God: Its Meaning. Moses, When Deprecating God's Wrath Against…
- Other Objections Considered. God's Condescension in the Incarnation. Nothing…
- The Tables Turned Upon Marcion, by Contrasts, in Favour of the True God
- Marcion's Own Antitheses, If Only the Title and Object of the Work Be Excepted…
- Book III. Wherein Christ is shown to be the Son of God, Who created the world…
- Introductory; A Brief Statement of the Preceding Argument in Connection With…
- Why Christ's Coming Should Be Previously Announced
- Miracles Alone, Without Prophecy, an Insufficient Evidence of Christ's Mission
- Marcion's Christ Not the Subject of Prophecy. The Absurd Consequences of This…
- Sundry Features of the Prophetic Style: Principles of Its Interpretation
- Community in Certain Points of Marcionite and Jewish Error. Prophecies of…
- Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, One Lowly, the Other…
- Absurdity of Marcion's Docetic Opinions; Reality of Christ's Incarnation
- Refutation of Marcion's Objections Derived From the Cases of the Angels, and…
- The Truly Incarnate State More Worthy of God Than Marcion's Fantastic Flesh
- Christ Was Truly Born; Marcion's Absurd Cavil in Defence of a Putative Nativity
- Isaiah's Prophecy of Emmanuel. Christ Entitled to That Name
- Isaiah's Prophecies Considered. The Virginity of Christ's Mother a Sign. Other…
- Figurative Style of Certain Messianic Prophecies in the Psalms. Military…
- The Title Christ Suitable as a Name of the Creator's Son, But Unsuited to…
- The Sacred Name Jesus Most Suited to the Christ of the Creator. Joshua a Type…
- Prophecies in Isaiah and the Psalms Respecting Christ's Humiliation
- Types of the Death of Christ. Isaac; Joseph; Jacob Against Simeon and Levi…
- Prophecies of the Death of Christ
- The Subsequent Influence of Christ's Death in the World Predicted. The Sure…
- The Call of the Gentiles Under the Influence of the Gospel Foretold
- The Success of the Apostles, and Their Sufferings in the Cause of the Gospel…
- The Dispersion of the Jews, and Their Desolate Condition for Rejecting Christ…
- Christ's Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company With His Saints
- Book IV. In Which Tertullian Pursues His Argument. Jesus is the Christ of the…
- Examination of the Antitheses of Marcion, Bringing Them to the Test of…
- St. Luke's Gospel, Selected by Marcion as His Authority, and Mutilated by Him…
- Marcion Insinuated the Untrustworthiness of Certain Apostles Whom St. Paul…
- Each Side Claims to Possess the True Gospel. Antiquity the Criterion of Truth…
- By the Rule of Antiquity, the Catholic Gospels Are Found to Be True, Including…
- Marcion's Object in Adulterating the Gospel. No Difference Between the Christ…
- Marcion Rejected the Preceding Portion of St. Luke's Gospel. Therefore This…
- Other Proofs From the Same Chapter, That Jesus, Who Preached at Nazareth, and…
- Out of St. Luke's Fifth Chapter Are Found Proofs of Christ's Belonging to the…
- Further Proofs of the Same Truth in the Same Chapter, From the Healing of the…
- The Call of Levi the Publican. Christ in Relation to the Baptist. Christ as the…
- Christ's Authority Over the Sabbath. As Its Lord He Recalled It From Pharisaic…
- Christ's Connection With the Creator Shown. Many Quotations Out of the Old…
- Christ's Sermon on the Mount. In Manner and Contents It So Resembles the…
- Sermon on the Mount Continued. Its Woes in Strict Agreement With the Creator's…
- The Precept of Loving One's Enemies. It is as Much Taught in the Creator's…
- Concerning Loans. Prohibition of Usury and the Usurious Spirit. The Law…
- Concerning the Centurion's Faith. The Raising of the Widow's Son. John Baptist…
- The Rich Women of Piety Who Followed Jesus Christ's Teaching by Parables. The…
- Comparison of Christ's Power Over Winds and Waves With Moses' Command of the…
- Christ's Connection With the Creator Shown From Several Incidents in the Old…
- The Same Conclusion Supported by the Transfiguration. Marcion Inconsistent in…
- Impossible That Marcion's Christ Should Reprove the Faithless Generation. Such…
- On the Mission of the Seventy Disciples, and Christ's Charge to Them…
- Christ Thanks the Father for Revealing to Babes What He Had Concealed From the…
- From St. Luke's Eleventh Chapter Other Evidence That Christ Comes From the…
- Christ's Reprehension of the Pharisees Seeking a Sign. His Censure of Their…
- Examples From the Old Testament, Balaam, Moses, and Hezekiah, to Show How…
- Parallels From the Prophets to Illustrate Christ's Teaching in the Rest of This…
- Parables of the Mustard-Seed, and of the Leaven. Transition to the Solemn…
- Christ's Advice to Invite the Poor in Accordance With Isaiah. The Parable of…
- A Sort of Sorites, as the Logicians Call It, to Show That the Parables of the…
- The Marcionite Interpretation of God and Mammon Refuted. The Prophets Justify…
- Moses, Allowing Divorce, and Christ Prohibiting It, Explained. John Baptist and…
- The Judicial Severity of Christ and the Tenderness of the Creator, Asserted in…
- The Parables of the Importunate Widow, and of the Pharisee and the Publican…
- Christ and Zacchæus. The Salvation of the Body as Denied by Marcion. The…
- Christ's Refutations of the Pharisees. Rendering Dues to Cæsar and to God. Next…
- Concerning Those Who Come in the Name of Christ. The Terrible Signs of His…
- How the Steps in the Passion of the Saviour Were Predetermined in Prophecy. The…
- The Woe Pronounced on the Traitor a Judicial Act, Which Disproves Christ to Be…
- Other Incidents of the Passion Minutely Compared With Prophecy. Pilate and…
- Conclusions. Jesus as the Christ of the Creator Proved From the Events of the…
- Dr. Holmes' Note
- Elucidations
- Additional Note
- Book V. Wherein Tertullian proves, with respect to St. Paul's epistles, what he…
- Introductory. The Apostle Paul Himself Not the Preacher of a New God. Called by…
- On the Epistle to the Galatians. The Abolition of the Ordinances of the Mosaic…
- St. Paul Quite in Accordance With St. Peter and Other Apostles of the…
- Another Instance of Marcion's Tampering With St. Paul's Text. The Fulness of…
- The First Epistle to the Corinthians. The Pauline Salutation of Grace and Peace…
- The Divine Way of Wisdom, and Greatness, and Might. God's Hiding of Himself…
- St. Paul's Phraseology Often Suggested by the Jewish Scriptures. Christ Our…
- Man the Image of the Creator, and Christ the Head of the Man. Spiritual Gifts…
- The Doctrine of the Resurrection. The Body Will Rise Again. Christ's Judicial…
- Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body, Continued. How Are the Dead Raised?…
- The Second Epistle to the Corinthians. The Creator the Father of Mercies. Shown…
- The Eternal Home in Heaven. Beautiful Exposition by Tertullian of the Apostle's…
- The Epistle to the Romans. St. Paul Cannot Help Using Phrases Which Bespeak the…
- The Divine Power Shown in Christ's Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul's Phrase…
- The First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The Shorter Epistles Pungent in Sense…
- The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. An Absurd Erasure of Marcion; Its…
- The Epistle to the Laodiceans. The Proper Designation is to the Ephesians…
- Another Foolish Erasure of Marcion's Exposed. Certain Figurative Expressions of…
- The Epistle to the Colossians. Time the Criterion of Truth and Heresy…
- The Epistle to the Philippians. The Variances Amongst the Preachers of Christ…
- The Epistle to Philemon. This Epistle Not Mutilated. Marcion's Inconsistency in…
- Elucidations (xxii)