1. Tertullian, On The Flesh of Christ, 20 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 212 | 20. But to what shifts you resort, in your attempt to rob the syllable ex (of) of its proper force as a preposition, and to substitute another for it in a sense not found throughout the Holy Scriptures! You say that He was born through a virgin, not of a virgin, and in a womb, not of a womb, because the angel in the dream said to Joseph, That which is born in her (not of her) is of the Holy Ghost. Matthew 1:20 But the fact is, if he had meant of her, he must have said in her; for that which was of her, was also in her. The angel's expression, therefore, in her, has precisely the same meaning as the phrase of her. It is, however, a fortunate circumstance that Matthew also, when tracing down the Lord's descent from Abraham to Mary, says, Jacob begot Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Christ. Matthew 1:16 But Paul, too, silences these critics when he says, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman. Galatians 4:4 Does he mean through a woman, or in a woman? Nay more, for the sake of greater emphasis, he uses the word made rather than born, although the use of the latter expression would have been simpler. But by saying made, he not only confirmed the statement, The Word was made flesh, John 1:14 but he also asserted the reality of the flesh which was made of a virgin. We shall have also the support of the Psalms on this point, not the Psalms indeed of Valentinus the apostate, and heretic, and Platonist, but the Psalms of David, the most illustrious saint and well-known prophet. He sings to us of Christ, and through his voice Christ indeed also sang concerning Himself. Hear, then, Christ the Lord speaking to God the Father: You are He that drew me out of my mother's womb. Here is the first point. You are my hope from my mother's breasts; upon You have I been cast from the womb. Here is another point. You are my God from my mother's belly. Here is a third point. Now let us carefully attend to the sense of these passages. You drew me, He says, out of the womb. Now what is it which is drawn, if it be not that which adheres, that which is firmly fastened to anything from which it is drawn in order to be sundered? If He clove not to the womb, how could He have been drawn from it? If He who clove thereto was drawn from it, how could He have adhered to it, if it were not that, all the while He was in the womb, He was tied to it, as to His origin, by the umbilical cord, which communicated growth to Him from the matrix? Even when one strange matter amalgamates with another, it becomes so entirely incorporated with that with which it amalgamates, that when it is drawn off from it, it carries with it some part of the body from which it is torn, as if in consequence of the severance of the union and growth which the constituent pieces had communicated to each other. But what were His mother's breasts which He mentions? No doubt they were those which He sucked. Midwives, and doctors, and naturalists, can tell us, from the nature of women's breasts, whether they usually flow at any other time than when the womb is affected with pregcy, when the veins convey therefrom the blood of the lower parts to the mamilla, and in the act of transference convert the secretion into the nutritious substance of milk. Whence it comes to pass that during the period of lactation the monthly issues are suspended. But if the Word was made flesh of Himself without any communication with a womb, no mother's womb operating upon Him with its usual function and support, how could the lacteal fountain have been conveyed (from the womb) to the breasts, since (the womb) can only effect the change by actual possession of the proper substance? But it could not possibly have had blood for transformation into milk, unless it possessed the causes of blood also, that is to say, the severance (by birth) of its own flesh from the mother's womb. Now it is easy to see what was the novelty of Christ's being born of a virgin. It was simply this, that (He was born) of a virgin in the real manner which we have indicated, in order that our regeneration might have virginal purity - spiritually cleansed from all pollutions through Christ, who was Himself a virgin, even in the flesh, in that He was born of a virgin's flesh. |
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| 2. Galen, On The Differences of The Pulses, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 378 |
| 3. Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 212 |
| 4. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 2.14.3-2.14.4, 2.33.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 212 |
| 5. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 4.89.6-90.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 164 |
| 6. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation To The Greeks, 11.111.1-11.111.3, 12.120.3-12.120.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 136 |
| 7. Clement of Alexandria, Christ The Educator, 3.12.101.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 136 |
| 8. Anon., Acts of Philip, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 87 |
| 9. Lactantius, Deaths of The Persecutors, None (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 750 |
| 10. Origen, Commentary On The Song of Songs, 3.13.21 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 165 |
| 11. Origen, Commentary On Romans, 2.13.27, 3.10.3, 4.7, 8.13.9, 10.9.12-10.9.14 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 203 |
| 12. Eusebius of Caesarea, Contra Marcellam, 2.4.12-2.4.14, 2.4.18-2.4.22, 2.4.28 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 324 |
13. Origen, Commentary On John, 2.1, 2.14 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 165 | 2.14. We have been discussing certain things which are opposite, and what has been said of them may serve to suggest what has been omitted. We are speaking of life and the light of men, and the opposite to life is death; the opposite to the light of men, the darkness of men. It is therefore plain that he who is in the darkness of men is in death, and that he who works the works of death is nowhere but in darkness. But he who is mindful of God, if we consider what it is to be mindful of Him, is not in death, according to the saying, In death there is no one who remembers You. Are the darkness of men, and death, such as they are by nature? On this point we have another passage, Ephesians 5:8 We were once darkness, but now light in the Lord, even if we be now in the fullest sense saints and spiritual persons. Thus he who was once darkness has become, like Paul, capable of being light in the Lord. Some consider that some natures are spiritual from the first, such as those of Paul and the holy Apostles; but I scarcely see how to reconcile with such a view, what the above text tells us, that the spiritual person was once darkness and afterwards became light. For if the spiritual was once darkness what can the earthy have been? But if it is true that darkness became light, as in the text, how is it unreasonable to suppose that all darkness is capable of becoming light? Had not Paul said, We were once in darkness, but now are we light in the Lord, and thus implied of those whom they consider to be naturally lost, that they were darkness, or are darkness still, the hypothesis about the different natures might have been admissible. But Paul distinctly says that he had once been darkness but was now light in the Lord, which implies the possibility that darkness should turn into light. But he who perceives the possibility of a change on each side for the better or for the worse, will not find it hard to gain an insight into every darkness of men, or into that death which consists in the darkness of men. |
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| 14. Origen, Commentary On Romans, 2.13.27, 3.10.3, 4.7, 8.13.9, 10.9.12-10.9.14 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 190 |
| 15. Origen, Commentary On Matthew, 15.31149., 17.33 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 165 |
16. Origen, Against Celsus, 4.12, 5.2 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 9 | 4.12. Whether, then, there are cycles of time, and floods, or conflagrations which occur periodically or not, and whether the Scripture is aware of this, not only in many passages, but especially where Solomon says, What is the thing which has been? Even that which shall be. And what is the thing which has been done? Even that which shall be done, etc., etc., belongs not to the present occasion to discuss. For it is sufficient only to observe, that Moses and certain of the prophets, being men of very great antiquity, did not receive from others the statements relating to the (future) conflagration of the world; but, on the contrary (if we must attend to the matter of time ), others rather misunderstanding them, and not inquiring accurately into their statements, invented the fiction of the same events recurring at certain intervals, and differing neither in their essential nor accidental qualities. But we do not refer either the deluge or the conflagration to cycles and planetary periods; but the cause of them we declare to be the extensive prevalence of wickedness, and its (consequent) removal by a deluge or a conflagration. And if the voices of the prophets say that God comes down, who has said, Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord, the term is used in a figurative sense. For God comes down from His own height and greatness when He arranges the affairs of men, and especially those of the wicked. And as custom leads men to say that teachers condescend to children, and wise men to those youths who have just betaken themselves to philosophy, not by descending in a bodily manner; so, if God is said anywhere in the holy Scriptures to come down, it is understood as spoken in conformity with the usage which so employs the word, and, in like manner also with the expression go up. 5.2. We have now, then, to refute that statement of his which runs as follows: O Jews and Christians, no God or son of a God either came or will come down (to earth). But if you mean that certain angels did so, then what do you call them? Are they gods, or some other race of beings? Some other race of beings (doubtless), and in all probability demons. Now as Celsus here is guilty of repeating himself (for in the preceding pages such assertions have been frequently advanced by him), it is unnecessary to discuss the matter at greater length, seeing what we have already said upon this point may suffice. We shall mention, however, a few considerations out of a greater number, such as we deem in harmony with our former arguments, but which have not altogether the same bearing as they, and by which we shall show that in asserting generally that no God, or son of God, ever descended (among men), he overturns not only the opinions entertained by the majority of mankind regarding the manifestation of Deity, but also what was formerly admitted by himself. For if the general statement, that no God or son of God has come down or will come down, be truly maintained by Celsus, it is manifest that we have here overthrown the belief in the existence of gods upon the earth who had descended from heaven either to predict the future to mankind or to heal them by means of divine responses; and neither the Pythian Apollo, nor Æsculapius, nor any other among those supposed to have done so, would be a god descended from heaven. He might, indeed, either be a god who had obtained as his lot (the obligation) to dwell on earth for ever, and be thus a fugitive, as it were, from the abode of the gods, or he might be one who had no power to share in the society of the gods in heaven; or else Apollo, and Æsculapius, and those others who are believed to perform acts on earth, would not be gods, but only certain demons, much inferior to those wise men among mankind, who on account of their virtue ascend to the vault of heaven. |
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| 17. Origen, On Prayer, 27.15 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 177 |
| 18. Origen, On First Principles, 2.1.2180., 2.3.4, 3.1.17177., 3.1.12.15200., 3.1.12, 3.1.13, 4.3169., 640.657. (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 203 |
| 19. Origen, Exhortation To Martyrdom, a b c d\n0 13 143.151. 13 143.151. 13 143 151 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 324 |
| 20. Origen, Fragments On Ephesians, None (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 165 |
| 21. Origen, Homilies On Exodus, a b c d\n0 6.13 10. 6.13 10. 6 13 10 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 161 |
| 22. Origen, Homilies On Ezekiel, a b c d\n0 6.13 10. 6.13 10. 6 13 10 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 161 |
| 23. Origen, Selecta In Ezechielem (Fragmenta E Catenis), 16 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 165 |
| 24. Origen, Commentary On Romans, 2.13.27, 3.10.3, 4.7, 8.13.9, 10.9.12-10.9.14 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 203 |
| 25. Origen, Selections On Psalms, 54, 9 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 161 |
| 26. Pseudo-Justinus, On The Resurrection, a b c d\n0 24 24 24 0 \n1 1.35 1.35 1 35\n2 1 1 1 0 \n3 1.36 1.36 1 36\n4 2628. 2628. 2628 \n5 1.45 1.45 1 45\n6 1.15 1.15 1 15\n7 1.37 1.37 1 37\n8 2.28 2.28 2 28\n9 2.27 2.27 2 27\n10 1.43 1.43 1 43\n11 1.34 1.34 1 34\n12 1.44 1.44 1 44 (3rd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 630 |
| 27. Epiphanius, Ancoratus, 97.8 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 580 |
| 28. Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius, 1 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 429 |
| 29. Gregory of Nazianzus, Ad Eos Qui Ipsum Acciverant Nec Occurrerant (Orat. 3), None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 434 |
| 30. Evagrius Ponticus, Praktikos, 32, 92, 2018-02-0300:00:00 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 483 |
| 31. Evagrius Ponticus, On Evil Thoughts, 18 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 483 |
| 32. John Chrysostom, Johannes Chrysostomos, 1.8.54-1.8.59 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 551 |
| 33. Epiphanius, Panarion, 1.158.7, 1.432.9, 2.29.5 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 580 |
| 34. Augustine, Retractiones, 1.7.6 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 673 |
| 35. Augustine, Enchiridion, 29 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 673 |
| 36. Augustine, De Gratia Christi Et De Peccato Originali Contra Pelagium Et Coelestinum, 1.3.9 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 671 |
| 37. John Chrysostom, Laus Diodori Episcopi, None (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 549 |
| 38. Augustine, Against Julian, 5.47 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 671 |
| 39. John Chrysostom, Homilies On Philemon, None (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 549 |
| 40. Didymus, In Genesim, None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 300 |
| 41. Didymus, In Ep. Canonicas Brevis Enarratio, 44, 68, 8-9, 27 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 300 |
| 42. Didymus, Fragmenta In Psalmos, None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 294 |
| 43. Didymus, Fragmenta In Job, None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 294 |
| 44. Didymus, Commentarii In Zachariam, 1.65 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 294 |
| 45. Didymus, Commonatrii In Psalmos, None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 294 |
| 46. Didymus, Comm. In Eccl., None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 294 |
| 47. John Chrysostom, De Virginitate, None (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 551 |
| 48. Jerome, Dialogi Contra Pelagianos (Dialogus Adversus Pelagianos.), None (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 637 |
| 49. Jerome, Letters, 83, 84, 84.10, 84.11, 124.2.13, 124.3.9, 124.3.10, 124.4.5.9.10, 124.5.9.12, 124.7, 124.3147. (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 637 |
| 50. Jerome, Commentary On Ezekiel, 6.18 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 637 |
| 51. Jerome, Commentaria In Abacuc, 2.3.17 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 631 |
| 52. Jerome, Commentary On Isaiah, None (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 629 |
| 53. Jerome, Commentaria In Epistolam Ad Ephesios, 1.1.14, 1.2.6-1.2.7, 2.4.16, 3.5.6 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 629, 630 |
| 54. Jerome, Letters, 83, 84, 84.10, 84.11, 124.2.13, 124.3.9, 124.3.10, 124.4.5.9.10, 124.5.9.12, 124.7, 124.3147. (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 637 |
| 55. Jerome, Letters, 83, 84, 84.10, 84.11, 124.2.13, 124.3.10, 124.3.9, 124.4.5.9.10, 124.5.9.12, 124.7, 124.3147. (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 637 |
| 56. Epigraphy, Rc, None Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 490 |
| 57. Photius, Bibliotheca (Library, Bibl.), None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 136 |
| 58. Epigraphy, Pugliese Carratelli (1952-4), 56 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 483 |
| 60. Justinus, Epitome Historiarum Philippicarum, None Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 549 |
| 61. Galen, Ther. Pis., None Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 429 |
| 63. Gregory Acind., Refutatio Magna, 10.1156.44 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 277 |
| 64. Gregory Nazianzenus, Or., 590.37, 996.32, 1016.14, 1016.49, 1161.15, 1164.2 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 277 |
| 65. Hippocratic Corpus, On Regimen, 1.2, 2.12 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 638 |
| 66. Hippolytos Romanus, Canones Hippolyti, 7 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 637 |
| 67. Ibycus, Ibycus, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 551 |
| 68. Ignatius, Ignatius, None Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 551 |
| 72. Menander, Supra. Schol. Hesiod, Op., 387.14 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 203 |
| 73. Michael Glycas, Annales, 38.11 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 162 |
| 76. Galen, Mmg, 30 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 429 |
| 77. Epigraphy, Rigsby, Asylia, 134.6 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 488 |
| 79. Galen, Dig. Puls., None Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 434 |
| 80. Epigraphy, Sc De Cn. Pisone Patre, 2.1 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 488 |
| 81. Menekles of Bark, Fgrh, 22.11 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 203 |
| 82. Ps.-Macarius Magnes, Sermo, 3 Tagged with subjects: •adam, aeons Found in books: Ramelli (2013) 646 |
