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De la chair de Jesus-Christ

XXV.

Mais nous avons suffisamment traité de la matière présente. Il nous semble que nous avons démontré que dans le Christ la chair est née de la Vierge, et semblable à la nôtre. Cette discussion unique eût pu suffire, sans le conflit des différentes opinions qui se sont |433 élevées à ce sujet, et qu'il a fallu combattre par surcroît dans leurs arguments et dans les textes dont elles abusent. Par ce traité, nous avons donc montré d'avance contre tous quelle a été la chair du Christ, d'où elle a été tirée, et ce qu'elle n'a pas été. Maintenant, il s'agit de défendre, dans un autre opuscule, la résurrection de la chair, comme une conséquence de cette démonstration préliminaire, et une vérité dont j'ai établi les fondements, en faisant voir ce qui a ressuscité en Jésus-Christ.

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On the Flesh of Christ

Chapter XXV.--Conclusion. This Treatise Forms a Preface to the Other Work, "On the Resurrection of the Flesh," Proving the Reality of the Flesh Which Was Truly Born, and Died, and Rose Again.

But let this suffice on our present subject; for I think that by this time proof enough has been adduced of the flesh in Christ having both been born of the virgin, and being human in its nature. And this discussion alone might have been sufficient, without encountering the isolated opinions which have been raised from different quarters. We have, however, challenged these opinions to the test, both of the arguments which sustain them, and of the Scriptures which are appealed to, and this we have done ex abundanti; so that we have, by showing what the flesh of Christ was, and whence it was derived, also predetermined the question, against all objectors, of what that flesh was not. The resurrection, however, of our own flesh will have to be maintained in another little treatise, and so bring to a close this present one, which serves as a general preface, and which will pave the way for the approaching subject now that it is plain what kind of body that was which rose again in Christ.