Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    The Flesh

    idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages

    the flesh · a flesh most weak or most unworthy · bodily integrity · caro · flesh · human flesh · the body · the flesh of Christ · the outer man

    in the texts

    De Carnis ResurrectioneLate Antiquity · Latin

    The bodily substance of man, whose resurrection is the passage's central contested claim.

    But beasts and fishes are named in the rendering-back of flesh and blood for this reason:
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    So whatever is proclaimed upon the blood is directed unto the flesh, without which there will be no blood.
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    So too, if He says that the flesh profits nothing, the sense must be directed from the matter of the saying.
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    Adversus MarcionemLate Antiquity · Latin

    The human body/corporeal nature, argued to be treated unjustly by Marcion's god who burdens it with holiness without granting it salvation.

    and in this whole sacrament of salvation he plunges a flesh that is excluded from salvation.
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    De Carne ChristiLate Antiquity · Latin

    Christ's material human body, whose reality, origin, and sinlessness are defended against heretical denial.

    For she bore, in that she bore of her own flesh;
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    flesh without seed from a human being, Spirit with seed from God.
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    So too the soul of Christ, made flesh, cannot but be that which it was made, and not be that which it had been, having become, that is, something else.
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    De PudicitiaLate Antiquity · Latin

    The human body as site of chastity, sin, and redemption.

    And would that these men too, who lop off the pure and true integrity of the flesh — amputating not the topmost surface but the inmost likeness of modesty itself — when they promise pardon to adulterers and fornicators against the principal discipline of the Christian name, which the very world too so far attests that, whenever it would punish that modesty in our women, it would do so rather by de …
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    But when the Word of God descended into flesh — not even unsealed by marriage — and "the Word was made flesh," not even to be unsealed by marriage, which should approach the tree not of incontinence but of endurance, which should taste therefrom not anything sweet but anything bitter, which should pertain not to the lower world but to heaven, which should be girt about not with the foliage of want …
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