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Against Marcion

Tertullian, ANF 3

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Preface. Reason for a New Work Pontus Lends Its Rough Character to the Heretic Marcion, a…
Marcion, Aided by Cerdon, Teaches a Duality of Gods; How He Constructed This Heresy of an…
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 and God’s…
The Dual Principle Falls to the Ground; Plurality of Gods, of Whatever Number, More…
Marcion Untrue to His Theory. He Pretends that His Gods are Equal, But He Really Makes…
Other Beings Besides God are in Scripture Called God. This Objection Frivolous, for It is…
Specific Points. The Novelty of Marcion’s God Fatal to His Pretensions. God is from…
Marcion’s Gnostic Pretensions Vain, for the True God is Neither Unknown Nor Uncertain.…
The Creator Was Known as the True God from the First by His Creation. Acknowledged by the…
The Evidence for God External to Him; But the External Creation Which Yields This…
Impossibility of Acknowledging God Without This External Evidence Of His Existence.…
The Marcionites Depreciate the Creation, Which, However, is a Worthy Witness of God. This…
All Portions of Creation Attest the Excellence of the Creator, Whom Marcion Vilifies. His…
The Lateness of the Revelation of Marcion’s God. The Question of the Place Occupied by…
Marcion Assumes the Existence of Two Gods from the Antithesis Between Things Visible and…
Not Enough, as the Marcionites Pretend, that the Supreme God Should Rescue Man; He Must…
Notwithstanding Their Conceits, the God of the Marcionites Fails in the Vouchers Both of…
Jesus Christ, the Revealer of the Creator, Could Not Be the Same as Marcion’s God, Who…
Marcion, Justifying His Antithesis Between the Law and the Gospel by the Contention of…
St. Paul Preached No New God, When He Announced the Repeal of Some of God’s Ancient…
God’s Attribute of Goodness Considered as Natural; The God of Marcion Found Wanting…
God’s Attribute of Goodness Considered as Rational. Marcion’s God Defective Here Also;…
The Goodness of Marcion’s God Only Imperfectly Manifested; It Saves But Few, and the…
God is Not a Being of Simple Goodness; Other Attributes Belong to Him. Marcion Shows…
In the Attribute of Justice, Marcion’s God is Hopelessly Weak and Ungodlike. He Dislikes…
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, the…
Marcion Forbids Marriage. Tertullian Eloquently Defends It as Holy, and Carefully…
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The Methods of Marcion’s Argument Incorrect and Absurd. The Proper Course of the Argument
The True Doctrine of God the Creator. The Heretics Pretended to a Knowledge of the Divine…
God Known by His Works. His Goodness Shown in His Creative Energy; But Everlasting in Its…
The Next Stage Occurs in the Creation of Man by the Eternal Word. Spiritual as Well as…
Marcion’s Cavils Considered. His Objection Refuted, I.e., Man’s Fall Showed Failure in…
This Liberty Vindicated in Respect of Its Original Creation; Suitable Also for Exhibiting…
If God Had Anyhow Checked Man’s Liberty, Marcion Would Have Been Ready with Another and…
Man, Endued with Liberty, Superior to the Angels. Overcomes Even the Angel Which Lured…
Another Cavil Answered, I.e., the Fall Imputable to God, Because Man’s Soul is a Portion…
Another Cavil Met, I.e., the Devil Who Instigated Man to Sin Himself the Creature of God.…
If, After Man’s Sin, God Exercised His Attribute of Justice and Judgment, This Was…
The Attributes of Goodness and Justice Should Not Be Separated. They are Compatible in…
Further Description of the Divine Justice; Since the Fall of Man It Has Regulated the…
Evil of Two Kinds, Penal and Criminal. It is Not of the Latter Sort that God is the…
The Severity of God Compatible with Reason and Justice. When Inflicted, Not Meant to Be…
To the Severity of God There Belong Accessory Qualities, Compatible with Justice. If…
Trace God’s Government in History and in His Precepts, and You Will Find It Full of His…
Some of God’s Laws Defended as Good, Which the Marcionites Impeached, Such as the Lex…
The Minute Prescriptions of the Law Meant to Keep the People Dependent on God. The…
The Marcionites Charged God with Having Instigated the Hebrews to Spoil the Egyptians.…
The Law of the Sabbath-Day Explained. The Eight Days’ Procession Around Jericho. The…
The Brazen Serpent and the Golden Cherubim Were Not Violations of the Second Commandment.…
God’s Purposes in Election and Rejection of the Same Men, Such as King Saul, Explained,…
Instances of God’s Repentance, and Notably in the Case of the Ninevites, Accounted for…
God’s Dealings with Adam at the Fall, and with Cain After His Crime, Admirably Explained…
The Oath of God: Its Meaning. Moses, When Deprecating God’s Wrath Against Israel, a Type…
Other Objections Considered. God’s Condescension in the Incarnation Nothing Derogatory to…
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, Afford…
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Introductory; A Brief Statement of the Preceding Argument in Connection with the Subject…
2. 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 Theory of…
Sundry Features of the Prophetic Style: Principles of Its Interpretation
Community in Certain Points of Marcionite and Jewish Error. Prophecies of Christ’s…
Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, One Lowly, the Other Majestic.…
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…
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
12. Isaiah’s Prophecy of Emmanuel. Christ Entitled to that Name
Isaiah’s Prophecies Considered. The Virginity of Christ’s Mother a Sign. Other Prophecies…
Figurative Style of Certain Messianic Prophecies in the Psalms. Military Metaphors…
The Title Christ Suitable as a Name of the Creator’s Son, But Unsuited to Marcion’s Christ
The Sacred Name Jesus Most Suited to the Christ of the Creator. Joshua a Type of Him
Prophecies in Isaiah and the Psalms Respecting Christ’s Humiliation
Types of the Death of Christ. Isaac; Joseph; Jacob Against Simeon and Levi; Moses Praying…
19. Prophecies of the Death of Christ
The Subsequent Influence of Christ’s Death in the World Predicted. The Sure Mercies of…
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, Foretold
The Dispersion of the Jews, and Their Desolate Condition for Rejecting Christ, Foretold
Christ’s Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company with His Saints
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Examination of the Antitheses of Marcion, Bringing Them to the Test of Marcion’s Own…
St. Luke’s Gospel, Selected by Marcion as His Authority, and Mutilated by Him. The Other…
Marcion Insinuated the Untrustworthiness of Certain Apostles Whom St. Paul Rebuked. The…
Each Side Claims to Possess the True Gospel. Antiquity the Criterion of Truth in Such a…
By the Rule of Antiquity, the Catholic Gospels are Found to Be True, Including the Real…
Marcion’s Object in Adulterating the Gospel. No Difference Between the Christ of the…
Marcion Rejected the Preceding Portion of St. Luke’s Gospel. Therefore This Review Opens…
Other Proofs from the Same Chapter, that Jesus, Who Preached at Nazareth, and Was…
Out of St. Luke’s Fifth Chapter are Found Proofs of Christ’s Belonging to the Creator,…
Further Proofs of the Same Truth in the Same Chapter, from the Healing of the Paralytic,…
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 Neglect to…
Christ’s Connection with the Creator Shown. Many Quotations Out of the Old Testament…
Christ’s Sermon on the Mount. In Manner and Contents It So Resembles the Creator’s…
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 Scriptures of…
Concerning Loans. Prohibition of Usury and the Usurious Spirit. The Law Preparatory to…
Concerning the Centurion’s Faith. The Raising of the Widow’s Son. John Baptist, and His…
The Rich Women of Piety Who Followed Jesus Christ’s Teaching by Parables. The Marcionite…
Comparison of Christ’s Power Over Winds and Waves with Moses’ Command of the Waters of…
Christ’s Connection with the Creator Shown from Several Incidents in the Old Testament,…
The Same Conclusion Supported by the Transfiguration. Marcion Inconsistent in Associating…
Impossible that Marcion’s Christ Should Reprove the Faithless Generation. Such Loving…
On the Mission of the Seventy Disciples, and Christ’s Charge to Them. Precedents Drawn…
Christ Thanks the Father for Revealing to Babes What He Had Concealed from the Wise. This…
From St. Luke’s Eleventh Chapter Other Evidence that Christ Comes from the Creator. The…
Christ’s Reprehension of the Pharisees Seeking a Sign. His Censure of Their Love of…
Examples from the Old Testament, Balaam, Moses, and Hezekiah, to Show How Completely the…
Parallels from the Prophets to Illustrate Christ’s Teaching in the Rest of This Chapter…
Parables of the Mustard-Seed, and of the Leaven. Transition to the Solemn Exclusion Which…
Christ’s Advice to Invite the Poor in Accordance with Isaiah. The Parable of the Great…
A Sort of Sorites, as the Logicians Call It, to Show that the Parables of the Lost Sheep…
The Marcionite Interpretation of God and Mammon Refuted. The Prophets Justify Christ’s…
Moses, Allowing Divorce, and Christ Prohibiting It, Explained. John Baptist and Herod.…
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’s…
Christ and Zacchæus. The Salvation of the Body as Denied by Marcion. The Parable of the…
Christ’s Refutations of the Pharisees. Rendering Dues to Cæsar and to God. Next of the…
Concerning Those Who Come in the Name of Christ. The Terrible Signs of His Coming. He…
How the Steps in the Passion of the Saviour Were Predetermined in Prophecy. The Passover.…
The Woe Pronounced on the Traitor a Judicial Act, Which Disproves Christ to Be Such as…
Other Incidents of the Passion Minutely Compared with Prophecy. Pilate and Herod.…
Conclusions. Jesus as the Christ of the Creator Proved from the Events of the Last…
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Introductory. The Apostle Paul Himself Not the Preacher of a New God. Called by Jesus…
On the Epistle to the Galatians. The Abolition of the Ordinances of the Mosaic Law No…
St. Paul Quite in Accordance with St. Peter and Other Apostles of the Circumcision. His…
Another Instance of Marcion’s Tampering with St. Paul’s Text. The Fulness of Time,…
The First Epistle to the Corinthians. The Pauline Salutation of Grace and Peace Shown to…
The Divine Way of Wisdom, and Greatness, and Might. God’s Hiding of Himself, and…
St. Paul’s Phraseology Often Suggested by the Jewish Scriptures. Christ Our Passover-A…
Man the Image of the Creator, and Christ the Head of the Man. Spiritual Gifts. The…
The Doctrine of the Resurrection. The Body Will Rise Again. Christ’s Judicial Character.…
Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body, Continued. How are the Dead Raised? And with…
The Second Epistle to the Corinthians. The Creator the Father of Mercies. Shown to Be…
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 Justice…
The Divine Power Shown in Christ’s Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul’s Phrase. Likeness of…
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians. The Shorter Epistles Pungent in Sense and Very…
The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. An Absurd Erasure of Marcion; Its Object…
The Epistle to the Laodiceans. The Proper Designation is to the Ephesians. Recapitulation…
Another Foolish Erasure of Marcion’s Exposed. Certain Figurative Expressions of the…
The Epistle to the Colossians. Time the Criterion of Truth and Heresy. Application of the…
The Epistle to the Philippians. The Variances Amongst the Preachers of Christ No Argument…
The Epistle to Philemon. This Epistle Not Mutilated. Marcion’s Inconsistency in Accepting…
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