Skip to main content

chapter

Book III. Wherein Christ is shown to be the Son of God, Who created the world; to have been predicted by the prophets; to have taken human flesh like our own, by a real incarnation.

v.iv.iv0 words

Continue

Introductory; A Brief Statement of the Preceding Argument in Connection with the Subject of This Book.

v.iv.iv.i

Why Christ's Coming Should Be Previously Announced.

v.iv.iv.ii

Miracles Alone, Without Prophecy, an Insufficient Evidence of Christ's Mission.

v.iv.iv.iii

Marcion's Christ Not the Subject of Prophecy. The Absurd Consequences of This Theory of the Heretic.

v.iv.iv.iv

Sundry Features of the Prophetic Style: Principles of Its Interpretation.

v.iv.iv.v

Community in Certain Points of Marcionite and Jewish Error. Prophecies of Christ's Rejection Examined.

v.iv.iv.vi

Prophecy Sets Forth Two Different Conditions of Christ, One Lowly, the Other Majestic. This Fact Points to Two Advents of Christ.

v.iv.iv.vii

Absurdity of Marcion's Docetic Opinions; Reality of Christ's Incarnation.

v.iv.iv.viii

Refutation of Marcion's Objections Derived from the Cases of the Angels, and the Pre-Incarnate Manifestations of the Son of God.

v.iv.iv.ix

The Truly Incarnate State More Worthy of God Than Marcion's Fantastic Flesh.

v.iv.iv.x

Christ Was Truly Born; Marcion's Absurd Cavil in Defence of a Putative Nativity.

v.iv.iv.xi

Isaiah's Prophecy of Emmanuel. Christ Entitled to that Name.

v.iv.iv.xii

Isaiah's Prophecies Considered. The Virginity of Christ's Mother a Sign. Other Prophecies Also Signs. Metaphorical Sense of Proper Names in Sundry Passages of the Prophets.

v.iv.iv.xiii

Figurative Style of Certain Messianic Prophecies in the Psalms. Military Metaphors Applied to Christ.

v.iv.iv.xiv

The Title Christ Suitable as a Name of the Creator's Son, But Unsuited to Marcion's Christ.

v.iv.iv.xv

The Sacred Name Jesus Most Suited to the Christ of the Creator. Joshua a Type of Him.

v.iv.iv.xvi

Prophecies in Isaiah and the Psalms Respecting Christ's Humiliation.

v.iv.iv.xvii

Types of the Death of Christ. Isaac; Joseph; Jacob Against Simeon and Levi; Moses Praying Against Amalek; The Brazen Serpent.

v.iv.iv.xviii

Prophecies of the Death of Christ.

v.iv.iv.xix

The Subsequent Influence of Christ's Death in the World Predicted. The Sure Mercies of David. What These are.

v.iv.iv.xx

The Call of the Gentiles Under the Influence of the Gospel Foretold.

v.iv.iv.xxi

The Success of the Apostles, and Their Sufferings in the Cause of the Gospel, Foretold.

v.iv.iv.xxii

The Dispersion of the Jews, and Their Desolate Condition for Rejecting Christ, Foretold.

v.iv.iv.xxiii

Christ's Millennial and Heavenly Glory in Company with His Saints.

v.iv.iv.xxiv