Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

that it is better for you to remain in ignorance, lest you should come to know what you ought not, because you have acquired the knowledge of what you ought to know.[154]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V " "To another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues; "this will be "the spirit of knowledge."[365]

Origen Against Celsus Book III

And Paul also, in the catalogue of "charismata" bestowed by God, placed first "the word of wisdom," and second, as being inferior to it, "the word of knowledge," but third, and lower down, "faith."[148]

Origen Against Celsus Book VI

And therefore Paul says: "To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit."[70]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VIII

Let not, therefore, any one that works signs and wonders judge any one of the faithful who is not vouchsafed the same: for the gifts of God which are bestowed by Him through Christ are various; and one man receives one gift, and another another. For perhaps one has the word of wisdom, and another the word of knowledge;[17]

The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

But if thou hast received "the word of knowledge, or the word of instruction, or of prophecy,"[115]

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