{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030554.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030554.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030554.htm","text":"Chapter XXXIX.\u2014Their Diversity of Sentiment Affects the Very Central Doctrine of Christianity, Even the Person and Character of the Lord Jesus. This Diversity Vitiates Every Gnostic School.\nNow, concerning even the Lord Jesus, into how great a diversity of opinion are they divided! One party form Him of the blossoms of all the \u00c6ons. 6932 Another party will have it that He is made up only of those ten whom the Word and the Life 6933 produced; 6934 from which circumstance the titles of the Word and the Life were suitably transferred to Him. Others, again, that He rather sprang from the twelve, the offspring of Man and the Church, 6935 and therefore, they say, He was designated \u201cSon of man.\u201d Others, moreover, maintain that He was formed by Christ and the Holy Spirit, who have to provide for the establishment of the universe, 6936 and that He inherits by right His Father\u2019s appellation. Some there are who have imagined that another origin must be found for the title \u201cSon of man;\u201d for they have had the presumption to call the Father Himself Man, by reason of the profound mystery of this title: so that what can you hope for more ample concerning faith in that God, with whom you are now yourself on a par? Such conceits are constantly cropping out 6937 amongst them, from the redundance of their mother\u2019s seed. 6938 And so it happens that the doctrines which have grown up amongst the Valentinians have already extended their rank growth to the woods of the Gnostics.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: Their ...","type":"page"}