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 Resurrectione
The bodily substance of man, whose resurrection is the passage's central contested claim.
But since here too a quibble is raised over the interpretation of "body," I will understand the body of man as nothing else than all that mass of flesh, by whatever kind of matters it is fitted and varied, which is seen, which is held, which finally is killed by men.
For on this account too we laid the foundation that the body of the soul, as much as that of the flesh, is liable to wages to be weighed out for the common operation — lest the corporeality of the soul, supplying an occasion of figures, exclude the corporeality of the flesh, when both must be believed partakers of the kingdom and the judgment and the resurrection.
So whatever is proclaimed upon the blood is directed unto the flesh, without which there will be no blood.
Adversus Marcionem
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.
De Carne Christi
Christ's material human body, whose reality, origin, and sinlessness are defended against heretical denial.
whether Christ took flesh from a virgin, so that in this way above all it may be established that it was human, if he drew his substance from a human womb.
— since every degree of the race is reckoned from the last to the principal, so that now they may know that the flesh of Christ adheres not only to Mary, but also to David through Mary, and to Jesse through David.
For, as I have read in a certain member of Valentinus's little faction, they first think that an earthly and human substance was not formed for Christ, lest the Lord be found inferior to the angels, who were not of earthly flesh;
De Pudicitia
The human body as site of chastity, sin, and redemption.
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 …
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 …