The sources of De Carnis Resurrectione

1. 1 Thessalonians Paul 4 authority 4 citations

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   Explicitly introduced as 'what to the Thessalonians I should think written' and quoted.

   I think, moreover, that to the Thessalonians too he promised the integrity of the whole substance.

2. Genesis Moses 4 authority 4 citations · 9 passages

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   Genesis is repeatedly and directly quoted as scriptural authority throughout the argument for the flesh's dignity.

   If Adam was the first man, but the flesh was man before the soul, without doubt the flesh shall have been made into a living soul.

3. Isaiah Isaiah 4 authority 4 citations · 9 passages

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   Isaiah is named and quoted twice, used to balance disparaging and honoring statements about the flesh.

   Therefore, killing through death, He will make alive through resurrection.

4. 1 Corinthians Paul 3 authority 3 citations · 12 passages

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   1 Corinthians (especially chapter 15) is quoted verbatim and expounded repeatedly as the authoritative text on resurrection.

   The transmutation of these he renders to the Corinthians, saying, "We shall all indeed rise again, but we shall not all be transmuted, in an atom, in a momentary motion of the eye, at the last trumpet" — but those alone, namely, who shall be found in the flesh.

5. Epistle to the Romans Paul (the Apostle) 3 authority 3 citations · 5 passages

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   Directly quoted Pauline sentence recognizable from Romans, used as authority.

   Just as they reckon the very holy land to be properly the Jewish soil, which is rather to be interpreted of the flesh of the Lord, which thereafter is holy land in all who have put on Christ — truly holy by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, truly flowing with milk and honey by the sweetness of the hope itself, truly Jewish by familiarity with God.

6. Gospel of John John the Evangelist 2 authority · 1 extended 3 citations · 4 passages

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   Explicitly quoted with the evangelist's own gloss, 'He had spoken concerning His body.'

   This lot of the body the Lord too expressed, when, clothed in that very substance, He said, "Destroy this temple, and I in three days will raise it up again.

7. Philippians Paul 3 authority 3 citations

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   The citizenship and transfiguration passage is explicitly attributed to what 'the Philippians too learn from the apostle'.

   Instructed by which example Paul too says, "Who transfigured the body of our humility, conformable to the body of His glory.

8. Tertullian 3 extended 3 citations · 2 passages

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   Explicitly named as a prior work whose arguments ground the present treatise's case.

   For this reason we sent ahead the volume On the Flesh of Christ, in which we prove both that it is solid, against the emptiness of a phantasm, and that it is human, against any peculiarity of quality — its very condition having inscribed Christ as both man and Son of Man.

9. Acts of the Apostles Luke 3 authority 3 citations

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   The trial and Areopagus scenes described are drawn from the Acts narrative.

   if so abruptly, as some would have it, with closed eyes, as they say, without distinction, without condition, he thrust out all flesh and blood everywhere from the kingdom of God — surely from the very royal palace of the heavens too, since there even now Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father, man, though God, the last Adam, though the primary word, flesh and blood, though purer than ours, ye …

10. Epistle to the Colossians Paul (the Apostle) 2 authority 2 citations

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    Explicitly attributed 'writing to the Colossians' and quoted directly.

    In short, "If you have risen with Christ," he says, "seek the things that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God;

11. Epistle to the Ephesians Paul 2 extended 2 citations

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    Explicitly attributed to Paul's writing to the Ephesians and reinterpreted.

    but saying "in your hearts," which are substantives of the flesh, he has now reckoned even the inner man himself to the flesh, whom he constituted in the heart.

12. Epistle to the Galatians Paul (the Apostle) 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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    Explicitly attributed 'to the Galatians' and quoted directly.

    So far is it a contemplation of hope, in this span, through faith — not a presentation, nor a possession, but an expectation.

13. Joel Joel 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

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    Joel is directly named and quoted to counter a harsher Genesis saying about flesh and spirit.

    For after He had declared, "And then Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations, until the times of the nations be fulfilled" — those, namely, to be enrolled by God and gathered with the remnants of Israel — thence already, unto the world and unto the age, He proclaims, according to Joel and Daniel and the whole council of the prophets, signs to come in the sun and in the moon and in the stars …

14. Psalms David 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

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    Repeatedly and explicitly quoted by name as prophetic/psalmic authority.

    "The kings of the earth stood up" — Herod — "and the rulers were gathered together into one" — Annas and Caiaphas — "against the Lord and against His Christ.

15. Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 5 passages

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    Both passages are explicitly quoted from Paul's letter to the Corinthians and interpreted at length.

    "For we know," he says, "that even if the earthly house of this our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens" — that is, through this, that our flesh shall be dissolved through sufferings, we are to attain a dwelling in the heavens.

16. Apocalypse of John (Revelation) John 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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    Explicitly attributed to 'the Apocalypse of John' and quoted directly in two paragraphs.

    We have also mention of garments in the Scriptures to allegorize to the hope of the flesh, since the Apocalypse of John too says, "These are they who have not defiled their garments with women" — signifying virgins, namely, and those who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven.

17. the Gospels the Evangelists 2 authority 2 citations · 6 passages

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    Tertullian explicitly turns to "the Gospels" as a body of proof-texts across these paragraphs.

    " If the names are absolute of the things — that is, of judgment and the kingdom of God and resurrection — so that none of them can be compressed into a parable, neither let those things be forced into parables which are proclaimed concerning the disposition and the transaction and the suffering of the kingdom, the judgment, and the resurrection;

18. 1 Timothy Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    The 'sequester of God and of men' title is drawn from this epistle and used as authority.

    He, called the sequester of God and of men, out of the deposit of either party committed to Him keeps in Himself the deposit of the flesh too, the earnest of the whole sum.

19. Aristotle 1 refuted 1 citation

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    Aristotle's manner of treating the soul is named as the source followed by the heretic Lucanus, whose doctrine is refuted.

    Let some one Lucanus see to it — he who does not spare even this substance, but, dissolving it after Aristotle's manner, substitutes for it something else, intending to raise up some third thing, neither soul nor flesh, that is, not a man, but perhaps a bear, in so far as he is a Lucanus.

20. Book of Daniel Daniel 1 neutral 1 citation

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    Named explicitly as prophetic authority for the signs discussed.

    For after He had declared, "And then Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations, until the times of the nations be fulfilled" — those, namely, to be enrolled by God and gathered with the remnants of Israel — thence already, unto the world and unto the age, He proclaims, according to Joel and Daniel and the whole council of the prophets, signs to come in the sun and in the moon and in the stars …

21. Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah 1 neutral 1 citation

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    Named explicitly though not directly quoted, as an example prophet.

    What are these figures in Isaiah, what images in David, what riddles in Jeremiah — when not even His mighty works were uttered through parables?

22. Deuteronomy Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    The quoted formula is drawn from the Mosaic law and cited as scriptural authority.

    For even then it was being dedicated, "Man lives not on bread, but on the word of God.

23. Ezekiel Ezekiel 1 endorsed 1 citation · 3 passages

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    The prophet's vision is quoted in full and then defended at length as literal proof of bodily resurrection.

    No raising up, I suppose, if this be not the very thing that is revealed to Ezekiel.

24. First Epistle of John John 1 authority 1 citation

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    Explicitly attributed 'So John too' and quoted directly.

    "And it is not yet manifest," he says, "what we shall be.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

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Marcion's teaching · Marcionite doctrine of another God and a phantasmal Christ · Scripture's likening of resurrection to the phoenix · Valentinus's teaching · doctrine denying Christ's true flesh · doctrine of Christ's peculiar-quality flesh · sayings on the finality of death · the Epicurean doctrine that nothing exists after death · the Gospel sayings of Christ · the New Prophecy · the doctrine of the soul's transmigration into other bodies · the epistles of Paul · the oracle of the Paraclete · the other prophets (Malachi)