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On the Flesh of Christ

Tertullian, ANF 3

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The General Purport of This Work. The Heretics, Marcion, Apelles, and Valentinus, Wishing…
Marcion, Who Would Blot Out the Record of Christ’s Nativity, is Rebuked for So Startling…
Christ’s Nativity Both Possible and Becoming. The Heretical Opinion of Christ’s Apparent…
God’s Honour in the Incarnation of His Son Vindicated. Marcion’s Disparagement of Human…
Christ Truly Lived and Died in Human Flesh. Incidents of His Human Life on Earth, and…
The Doctrine of Apelles Refuted, that Christ’s Body Was of Sidereal Substance, Not Born.…
Explanation of the Lord’s Question About His Mother and His Brethren. Answer to the…
Apelles and His Followers, Displeased with Our Earthly Bodies, Attributed to Christ a…
Christ’s Flesh Perfectly Natural, Like Our Own. None of the Supernatural Features Which…
Another Class of Heretics Refuted. They Alleged that Christ’s Flesh Was of a Finer…
The Opposite Extravagance Exposed. That is Christ with a Soul Composed of…
The True Functions of the Soul. Christ Assumed It in His Perfect Human Nature, Not to…
Christ’s Human Nature. The Flesh and the Soul Both Fully and Un-Confusedly Contained in It
Christ Took Not on Him an Angelic Nature, But the Human. It Was Men, Not Angels, Whom He…
The Valentinian Figment of Christ’s Flesh Being of a Spiritual Nature, Examined and…
Christ’s Flesh in Nature, the Same as Ours, Only Sinless. The Difference Between Carnem…
The Similarity of Circumstances Between the First and the Second Adam, as to the…
The Mystery of the Assumption of Our Perfect Human Nature by the Second Person of the…
Christ, as to His Divine Nature, as the Word of God, Became Flesh, Not by Carnal…
Christ Born of a Virgin, of Her Substance. The Physiological Facts of His Real and Exact…
The Word of God Did Not Become Flesh Except in the Virgin’s Womb and of Her Substance.…
Holy Scripture in the New Testament, Even in Its Very First Verse, Testifies to Christ’s…
Simeon’s “Sign that Should Be Contradicted,” Applied to the Heretical Gainsaying of the…
Divine Strictures on Various Heretics Descried in Various Passages of Prophetical…
Conclusion. This Treatise Forms a Preface to the Other Work, “On the Resurrection of the…