AGAINST MARCION, v5
BOOK V.
- CHAP. I.—INTRODUCTORY. THE APOSTLE PAUL HIMSELF
NOT THE PREACHER OF A NEW GOD. CALLED BY JESUS CHRIST, ALTHOUGH AFTER
THE OTHER APOSTLES, HIS MISSION WAS FROM THE CREATOR. STATES HOW. THE
ARGUMENT, AS IN THE CASE OF THE GOSPEL, CONFINING PROOFS TO SUCH
PORTIONS OF ST. PAUL'S WRITINGS AS MARCION ALLOWED.
- CHAP.II.—ON THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS.
- CHAP. III.—ST. PAUL QUITE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ST.
PETER AND OTHER APOSTLES OF THE CIRCUMCISION. HIS CENSURE OF ST. PETER
EXPLAINED, AND RESCUED FROM MARCION'S MISAPPLICATION. THE STRONG
PROTESTS OF THIS EPISTLE AGAINST JUDAIZERS, YET ITS TEACHING IS SHOWN
TO BE IN KEEPING WITH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS, MARCION'S TAMPERING
WITH ST. PAUL'S WRITINGS CENSURED.
- CHAP. IV.—ANOTHER INSTANCE OF MARCION'S
TAMPERING WITH ST. PAUL'S TEXT. THE FULNESS OF TIME, ANNOUNCED BY THE
APOSTLE, FORETOLD BY THE PROPHETS. MOSAIC RITES ABROGATED BY THE
CREATOR HIMSELF. MARCION'S TRICKS ABOUT ABRAHAM'S NAME. THE CREATOR,
BY HIS CHRIST, THE FOUNTAIN OF THE GRACE AND THE LIBERTY WHICH ST.
PAUL ANNOUNCED. MARCION'S DOCETISM REFUTED.
- CHAP. V.—THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS.
THE PAULINE SALUTATION OF GRACE AND PEACE SHOWN TO BE ANTI-MARCIONITE.
THE CROSS OF CHRIST PURPOSED BY THE CREATOR. MARCION ONLY PERPETUATES
THE OFFENCE AND FOOLISHNESS OF CHRIST'S CROSS BY HIS IMPIOUS SEVERANCE
OF THE GOSPEL FROM THE CREATOR.ANALOGIES BETWEEN THE LAW AND THE
GOSPEL IN THE MATTER OF WEAK THINGS, AND FOOLISH THINGS AND BASE
THINGS.
- CHAP. VI.—THE DIVINE WAY OF WISDOM, AND
GREATNESS, AND MIGHT. GOD'S HIDING OF HIMSELF, AND SUBSEQUENT
REVELATION. TO MARCION'S GOD SUCH A CONCEALMENT AND MANIFESTATION
IMPOSSIBLE. GOD'S PREDESTINATION. NO SUCH PRIOR SYSTEM OF INTENTION
POSSIBLE TO A GOD PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN AS WAS MARCION'S. THE POWERS OF
THE WORLD WHICH CRUCIFIED CHRIST. ST. PAUL, AS A WISE MASTER-BUILDER,
ASSOCIATED WITH PROPHECY. SUNDRY INJUNCTIONS OF THE APOSTLE PARALLEL
WITH THE TEACHING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
- CHAP. VII.—ST. PAUL'S PHRASEOLOGY OFTEN
SUGGESTED BY THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES. CHRIST OUR PASSOVER—A PHRASE
WHICH INTRODUCES US TO THE VERY HEART OF THE ANCIENT DISPENSATION.
CHRIST'S TRUE CORPOREITY. MARRIED AND UNMARRIED STATES. MEANING OF THE
TIME IS SHORT. IN HIS EXHORTATIONS AND DOCTRINE, THE APOSTLE WHOLLY
TEACHES ACCORDING TO THE MIND AND PURPOSES OF THE GOD OF THE OLD
TESTAMENT. PROHIBITION OF MEATS AND DRINKS WITHDRAWN BY THE CREATOR.
- CHAP. VIII.—MAN THE IMAGE OF THE CREATOR AND
CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE MAN. SPIRITUAL GIFTS. THE SEVENFOLD SPIRIT
DESCRIBED BY ISAIAH. THE APOSTLE AND THE PROPHET COMPARED. MARCION
CHALLENGED TO PRODUCE ANYTHING LIKE THESE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT FORETOLD
IN PROPHECY HIS GOD.
- CHAP. IX.—THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION. THE
BODY WILL RISE AGAIN. CHRIST'S JUDICIAL CHARACTER. JEWISH PERVERSIONS
OF PROPHECY EXPOSED AND CONFUTED. MESSIANIC PSALMS VINDICATED. JEWISH
AND RATIONALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS ON THIS POINT SIMILAR. JESUS—NOT
HEZEKIAH OR SOLOMON—THE SUBJECT OF THESE PROPHECIES IN THE PSALMS.
NONE BUT HE IS THE CHRIST OF THE OLD AND THE NEW TESTAMENTS.
- CHAP.X.—DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE
BODY, CONTINUED. HOW ARE THE DEAD RAISED? AND WITH WHAT BODY DO THEY
COME? THESE QUESTIONS ANSWERED IN SUCH A SENSE AS TO MAINTAIN THE TRUTH
OF THE RAISED BODY, AGAINST MARCION. CHRIST AS THE SECOND ADAM
CONNECTED WITH THE CREATOR OF THE FIRST MAN. LET US BEAR THE IMAGE OF
THE HEAVENLY. THE TRIUMPH OVER DEATH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHETS.
HOSEA AND ST. PAUL COMPARED.
- CHAP. XI.— THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE
CORINTHIANS. THE CREATOR THE FATHER OF MERCIES. SHOWN TO BE SUCH IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, AND ALSO IN CHRIST. THE NEWNESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
THE VEIL OF OBDURATE BLINDNESS UPON ISRAEL, NOT REPREHENSIBLE ON
MARCION'S PRINCIPLES. THE JEWS GUILTY IN REJECTING THE CHRIST OF THE
CREATOR. SATAN, THE GOD OF THIS WORLD. THE TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS
EXPLAINED AGAINST MARCION. THE CREATOR'S RELATION TO THESE VESSELS,
I.E. OUR BODIES.
- CHAP. XII.—THE ETERNAL HOME IN HEAVEN.
BEAUTIFUL EXPOSITION BY TERTULLIAN OF THE APOSTLE'S CONSOLATORY
TEACHING AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, SO APT TO ARISE UNDER
ANTI-CHRISTIAN OPPRESSION. THE JUDGMENT-SEAT OF CHRIST—THE IDEA,
ANTI-MARCIONITE. PARADISE. JUDICIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRIST WHICH ARE
INCONSISTENT WITH THE HERETICAL VIEWS ABOUT HIM; THE APOSTLE'S
SHARPNESS, OR SEVERITY, SHOWS HIM TO BE A FIT PREACHER OF THE CREATOR'S
CHRIST.
- CHAP. XIII.—THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. ST. PAUL
CANNOT HELP USING PHRASES WHICH BESPEAK THE JUSTICE OF GOD, EVEN WHEN
HE IS EULOGIZING THE MERCIES OF THE GOSPEL. MARCION PARTICULARLY HARD
IN MUTILATION OF THIS EPISTLE.YET OUR AUTHOR ARGUES ON COMMON GROUND.
THE JUDGMENT AT LAST WILL BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GOSPEL. THE
JUSTIFIED BY FAITH EXHORTED TO HAVE PEACE WITH GOD. THE ADMINISTRATION
OF THE OLD AND THE NEW DISPENSATIONS IN ONE AND THE SAME HAND.
- CHAP. XIV.—THE DIVINE POWER SHOWN IN CHRIST'S
INCARNATION. MEANING OF ST. PAUL'S PHRASE. LIKENESS OF SINFUL FLESH. NO
DOCETISM IN IT. RESURRECTION OF OUR REAL BODIES. A WIDE CHASM MADE IN
THE EPISTLE BY MARCION'S ERASURE. WHEN THE JEWS ARE UPBRAIDED BY THE
APOSTLE FOR THEIR MISCONDUCT TO GOD; INASMUCH AS THAT GOD WAS THE
CREATOR, A PROOF IS IN FACT GIVEN THAT ST. PAUL'S GOD WAS THE CREATOR.
THE PRECEPTS AT THE END OF THE EPISTLE, WHICH MARCION ALLOWED, SHOWN TO
BE IN EXACT ACCORDANCE WITH THE CREATOR'S SCRIPTURES.
- CHAP. XV.—THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE
THESSALONIANS. THE SHORTER EPISTLES PUNGENT IN SENSE AND VERY
VALUABLE.ST. PAUL UPBRAIDS THE JEWS FOR THE DEATH FIRST OF THEIR
PROPHETS AND THEN OF CHRIST. THIS A PRESUMPTION THAT BOTH Christ AND
THE PROPHETS PERTAINED TO THE SAME GOD. THE LAW OF NATURE, WHICH IS IN
FACT THE CREATOR'S DISCIPLINE, AND THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST BOTH ENJOIN
CHASTITY. THE RESURRECTION PROVIDED FOR IN THE OLD TESTAMENT BY CHRIST.
MAN'S COMPOUND NATURE.
- CHAP. XVI.—THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE
THESSALONIANS. AN ABSURD ERASURE OF MARCION; ITS OBJECT TRANSPARENT.
THE FINAL JUDGMENT ON THE HEATHEN AS WELL AS THE JEWS COULD NOT BE
ADMINISTERED. BY MARCION'S CHRIST. THE MAN OF SIN—WHAT? INCONSISTENCY
OF MARCION'S VIEW. THE ANTICHRIST. THE GREAT EVENTS OF THE LAST
APOSTASY WITHIN THE PROVIDENCE AND INTENTION OF THE CREATOR, WHOSE ARE
ALL THINGS FROM THE BEGINNING. SIMILARITY OF THE PAULINE PRECEPTS WITH
THOSE OF THE CREATOR.
- CHAP.XVII.—THE EPISTLE TO THE LAODICEANS. THE
PROPER DESIGNATION IS TO THE EPHESIANS. RECAPITULATION OF ALL THINGS IN
CHRIST FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION. NO ROOM FOR MARCION'S CHRIST
HERE. NUMEROUS PARALLELS BETWEEN THIS EPISTLE AND PASSAGES IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT. THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR, AND THE GOD OF THIS
WORLD—WHO CREATION AND REGENERATION THE WORK OF ONE GOD. HOW CHRIST
HAS MADE THE LAW OBSOLETE. A VAIN ERASURE OF MARCION'S. THE APOSTLES AS
WELL AS THE PROPHETS FROM THE CREATOR.
- CHAP. XVIII.—ANOTHER FOOLISH ERASURE OF
MARCION'S EXPOSED. CERTAIN FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS OF THE APOSTLE,
SUGGESTED BY THE LANGUAGE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. COLLATION OF MANY
PASSAGES OF THIS EPISTLE, WITH PRECEPTS AND STATEMENTS IN THE
PENTATEUCH, THE PSALMS, AND THE PROPHETS. ALL ALIKE TEACH US THE WILL
AND PURPOSE OF THE CREATOR.
- CHAP. XIX.—THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS. TIME
THE CRITERION OF TRUTH AND HERESY. APPLICATION OF THE CANON. THE IMAGE
OF THE INVISIBLE GOD EXPLAINED. PRE-EXISTENCE OF OUR CHRIST IN THE
CREATOR'S ANCIENT DISPENSATIONS. WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE FULNESS OF
CHRIST. THE EPICUREAN CHARACTER OF MARCION'S GOD. THE CATHOLIC TRUTH IN
OPPOSITION THERETO. THE LAW IS TO CHRIST WHAT THE SHADOW IS TO THE
SUBSTANCE.
- CHAP.XX.—THE EPISTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS. THE
VARIANCES AMONGST THE PREACHERS OF CHRIST NO ARGUMENT THAT THERE WAS
MORE THAN ONE ONLY CHRIST. ST. PAUL'S PHRASES—FORM OF A SERVANT,
LIKENESS, AND FASHION OF A MAN—NO SANCTION OF DOCETISM. NO ANTITHESIS
(SUCH AS MARCION ALLEGED) IN THE GOD OF JUDAISM AND THE GOD OF THE
GOSPEL DEDUCIBLE FROM CERTAIN CONTRASTS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISTLE.A
PARALLEL WITH A PASSAGE IN GENESIS.THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, AND
THE CHANGE THEREOF.
- CHAP. XXI.—THE EPISTLE TO PHILEMON. THIS
EPISTLE NOT MUTILATED. MARCION'S INCONSISTENCY IN ACCEPTING THIS, AND
REJECTING THREE OTHER EPISTLES ADDRESSED TO INDIVIDUALS. CONCLUSIONS.
TERTULLIAN VINDICATES THE SYMMETRY AND DELIBERATE PURPOSE OF HIS WORK
AGAINST MARCION.
- ELUCIDATIONS.
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