The crucifixion of Christ

For the rest, had it been the adversary that was hurt, the heaven would have flourished with its lights, the sun would the rather have insulted with its rays, the day the rather would have stood, gladly beholding Marcion's Christ hanging on the gibbet.

To whom, in short, does he reconcile all things unto himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, except him whom these same things had offended, against whom they had rebelled by transgression, whose at the last they had been?

but new and newly — that is, newly born of a virgin by the Spirit of God) — that he might reconcile both to God, even to the God whom both kinds had offended, both the Jewish and the Gentile people, in one body, he says, having slain the enmity in it through the cross.

Or did you not, for this reason, cut the sufferings away from Christ — that, being a phantom, he was void of any feeling of them?

For his sake he came down, for his sake he preached, for his sake he cast himself down in all humility even unto death, and the death of the cross;