{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2111182.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2111182.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2111182.htm","text":"Heretics usually cover their doctrines with a cloak of holy Scripture.\n\u201cFor as,\u201d you say, \u201cby man came death, so by man came also the resurrection of the dead.\u201d Do you actually try to prove your wrong and impious notion by the witness of the Apostle? And do you bring the \u201cchosen vessel\u201d into disgrace by mixing him up with your wicked ideas? I mean, that, as you cannot understand the author of your Salvation, therefore the Apostle must be made out to have denied God. And yet, if you wanted to make use of Apostolic witnesses, why did you rest contented with one, and pass over all the others in silence? and why did you not at once add this: \u201cPaul, an Apostle not of men neither by man, but by Jesus Christ:\u201d 2609 or this: \u201cWe speak wisdom among the perfect:\u201d and presently: \u201cWhom none,\u201d says he, \u201cof the princes of this world knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.\u201d 2610 Or this: \u201cFor in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.\u201d 2611 And: \u201cOne Lord Jesus Christ through whom are all things.\u201d 2612 Or do you partly agree, and partly disagree with the Apostle, and only receive him so far as in consequence of the Incarnation 2613 he names Christ man, and repudiate him where he speaks of Him as God? For Paul does not deny that Jesus is man, but still he confesses that man is God: and declares that to mankind the resurrection came by man in such a way that he shows that in that man God arose. For see whether he declares that He who rose was God, as he bears his witness that He who was crucified was the Lord of glory.\n1 Cor. 2:6, 8.\n608:2611 608:2612 608:2613","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter VII. Heretics usually cover their doctrines with a cloak of holy Scripture.","type":"page"}