[40] vi, 72.
[41] vi, 73. Cf. the Marcionite view; cf. Tert. _adv. Marc._ iii, 11; iv, 21; v, 19, _cuius ingeniis tam longe abest veritas nostra ut ...
Christum ex v.u.l.v.a virginis natum non erubescat, ridentibus philosophis et haereticis et ethnicis ipsis_. See also _de carne Christi_, 4, 5, where he strikes a higher note; Christ loved man, born as man is, and descended for him.
[42] vi, 75. Cf. Tert. _de carne Christi_, 9, _adeo nec humanae honestatis corpus fuit; adv. Jud._ 14, _ne aspectu quidem honestus_.
[43] vi, 78. Cf. Tert. _adv. Marc._ iii, i, _atquin nihil putem a deo subitum quia nihil a deo non dispositum_.
[44] vii, 13, _skataophagein_. Origen"s reply is absurd--_hina gar ka doxe hoti hesthein, hos soma phoron ho Iesous hesthein_. So also said Clement (_Strom._ vi, 71). Valentinus had another theory no better, _Strom._ iii. 59. Marcion, Tertullian says (_adv. Marc._ iii, 10), called the flesh _terrenam et stercoribus infusam_. They are all filled with the same contempt for matter--not Tertullian, however.
[45] i, 69.
[46] i, 54.
[47] i, 12.
[48] ii, 23, 24.
[49] ii, 34.
[50] ii, 37.
[51] ii, 66, 67. Tertullian meets this in _Apol._ 21. _Nam nec ille se in vulgus eduxit ne impii errore liberarcntur, ut et fides, non mediocri praemio destinata, difficultate constaret_.
[52] ii, 68,
[53] viii, 39.
[54] viii, 41.
[55] v, 65.
[56] vi, 34. Cf. a curious pa.s.sage of Clem. Alex. _Protr._ 114, _outos ten dusin eis anatolen metegagen ka tn thanaton eis zoen anestaursen exarpasas de tes apoleias tn anthropon prosekremasen aitheri_, and so forth. Cf. Tert. _adv. Valent._ 20, who suggests that the Valentinians had "nut-trees in the sky"--it is a book in which he allows himself a good deal of gaiety and free quotation.
[57] i, 28.
[58] M. Aurelius, i, 6, "From Diognetus I learnt not to give credit to what was said by miracle-workers and jugglers (_goeton_) about incantations and the sending away of daemons and such things." Cf.
Tertullian, _adv. Marc._ iii, 2-4, on inadequacy of proof from miracles alone, without that from prophecy; also _de Anima_, 57, on these conjurers, where he remarks, _nec magnum illi exteriores oculos circ.u.mscribere, an interiorem mentis aciem excalcare perfacile est_.
See also _Apol._ 22, 23.
[59] i, 68.
[60] vii, 9.
[61] iii, 36.
[62] vi, 16. Cf. Plato, _Laws_, v, 12, p. 743 A.
[63] vi, 17-19; _Phaedrus_, 247 C.
[64] vi, 42.
[65] vii, 32; cf. Min. Felix, 11, 9.
[66] iv, 11.
[67] vi, 8.
[68] vi, 47. Cf. Plato, _Timaeus_ (last words), 92 C, _eis ourans ode monogenes on_.
[69] v, 14.
[70] v, 14.
[71] vii, 34.
[72] viii, 49.
[73] viii. 48.
[74] iii, 14.
[75] v, 59.
[76] iii, 12.
[77] vi, II.
[78] iii, 9. Tertullian speaks in a somewhat similar way of heretics, especially of the Gnostics: _de praescriptione haeret_. c. 42.
[79] vii, 68.
[80] v, 25.
[81] viii, 53, 58.
[82] vii, 68.
[83] vii, 2.
[84] Cf. v, 34, 35.
[85] viii, ii. Cf. Tert. _adv. Prax._ 3, where it is argued that G.o.d"s monarchy is not impaired _tot angelorum numero_, nor by the _oikonomia_ of the Trinity.
[86] v, 41.
[87] v, 41.