[44] vii, 13, _skataophagein_. Origen's reply is absurd--_hina gar kai doxe hoti hesthein, hos soma phoron ho Iesous hesthein_. So also said Clement (_Strom._ vi, 71). Valentinus had another theory no better, _Strom._ iii. 59. Marcion, Tertullian says (_adv. Marc._ iii, 10), called the flesh _terrenam et stercoribus infusam_. They are all filled with the same contempt for matter--not Tertullian, however. [45] i, 69. [46] i, 54. [47] i, 12. [48] ii, 23, 24. [49] ii, 34. [50] ii, 37. [51] ii, 66, 67. Tertullian meets this in _Apol._ 21. _Nam nec ille se in vulgus eduxit ne impii errore liberarcntur, ut et fides, non mediocri praemio destinata, difficultate constaret_. [52] ii, 68, [53] viii, 39. [54] viii, 41. [55] v, 65. [56] vi, 34. Cf. a curious passage of Clem. Alex. _Protr._ 114, _outos ten dusin eis anatolen metegagen kai ton thanaton eis zoen anestaursen exarpasas de tes apoleias ton anthropon prosekremasen aitheri_, and so forth. Cf. Tert. _adv. Valent._ 20, who suggests that the Valentinians had "nut-trees in the sky"--it is a book in which he allows himself a good deal of gaiety and free quotation. [57] i, 28. [58] M. Aurelius, i, 6, "From Diognetus I learnt not to give credit to what was said by miracle-workers and jugglers (_goeton_) about incantations and the sending away of daemons and such things." Cf. Tertullian, _adv. Marc._ iii, 2-4, on inadequacy of proof from miracles alone, without that from prophecy; also _de Anima_, 57, on these conjurers, where he remarks, _nec magnum illi exteriores oculos circumscribere, an interiorem mentis aciem excalcare perfacile est_. See also _Apol._ 22, 23. [59] i, 68. [60] vii, 9. [61] iii, 36. [62] vi, 16. Cf. Plato, _Laws_, v, 12, p. 743 A. [63] vi, 17-19; _Phaedrus_, 247 C. [64] vi, 42. [65] vii, 32; cf. Min. Felix, 11, 9. [66] iv, 11. [67] vi, 8. [68] vi, 47. Cf. Plato, _Timaeus_ (last words), 92 C, _eis ouranos ode monogenes on_. [69] v, 14. [70] v, 14. [71] vii, 34. [72] viii, 49. [73] viii. 48. [74] iii, 14. [75] v, 59. [76] iii, 12. [77] vi, II. [78] iii, 9. Tertullian speaks in a somewhat similar way of heretics, especially of the Gnostics: _de praescriptione haeret_. c. 42. [79] vii, 68. [80] v, 25. [81] viii, 53, 58. [82] vii, 68. [83] vii, 2. [84] Cf. v, 34, 35. [85] viii, ii. Cf. Tert. _adv. Prax._ 3, where it is argued that God's monarchy is not impaired _tot angelorum numero_, nor by the _oikonomia_ of the Trinity. [86] v, 41. [87] v, 41. [88] viii, 45. [89] vii, 35. [90] iii, 24. Cf. p. 222. [91] viii, 35. [92] viii, 63. [93] viii, 12. [94] vii, 68. [95] viii, 24. [96] i, 9, _Mithrais kai Sabadiois_. [97] viii, 60. See note on ch. iii, p. 107. [98] viii, 67.