On the Flesh of Christ
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3rd c. · Treatises & Other · English translation, 1890
Source edition: The Ante-Nicene Fathers (ed. Roberts & Donaldson, 1885)
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Contents
On the Flesh of Christ
- 1. The General Purport of This Work. The Heretics, Marcion, Apelles, and…
- 2. Marcion, Who Would Blot Out the Record of Christ’s Nativity, is Rebuked for…
- 3. Christ’s Nativity Both Possible and Becoming. The Heretical Opinion of…
- 4. God’s Honour in the Incarnation of His Son Vindicated. Marcion’s…
- 5. Christ Truly Lived and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human Life on…
- 6. The Doctrine of Apelles Refuted, that Christ’s Body Was of Sidereal…
- 7. Explanation of the Lord’s Question About His Mother and His Brethren. Answer…
- 8. Apelles and His Followers, Displeased with Our Earthly Bodies, Attributed to…
- 9. Christ’s Flesh Perfectly Natural, Like Our Own. None of the Supernatural…
- 10. Another Class of Heretics Refuted. They Alleged that Christ’s Flesh Was of…
- 11. The Opposite Extravagance Exposed. That is Christ with a Soul Composed of…
- 12. The True Functions of the Soul. Christ Assumed It in His Perfect Human…
- 13. Christ’s Human Nature. The Flesh and the Soul Both Fully and Unconfusedly…
- 14. Christ Took Not on Him an Angelic Nature, But the Human. It Was Men, Not…
- 15. The Valentinian Figment of Christ’s Flesh Being of a Spiritual Nature…
- 16. Christ’s Flesh in Nature, the Same as Ours, Only Sinless. The Difference…
- 17. The Similarity of Circumstances Between the First and the Second Adam, as…
- 18. The Mystery of the Assumption of Our Perfect Human Nature by the Second…
- 19. Christ, as to His Divine Nature, as the Word of God, Became Flesh, Not by…
- 20. Christ Born of a Virgin, of Her Substance. The Physiological Facts of His…
- 21. The Word of God Did Not Become Flesh Except in the Virgin’s Womb and of Her…
- 22. Holy Scripture in the New Testament, Even in Its Very First Verse…
- 23. Simeon’s “Sign that Should Be Contradicted,” Applied to the Heretical…
- 24. Divine Strictures on Various Heretics Descried in Various Passages of…
- 25. Conclusion. This Treatise Forms a Preface to the Other Work, “On the…
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