1 Corinthians 15:2
Origen Against Celsus Book VI believer, "unless ye have believed inconsiderately."[49]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book VI believer, "unless ye have believed inconsiderately."[49]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III He was likewise preached by Paul: "For I delivered," he says, "unto you first of all, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures."[333] Tertullian A Treatise on the... [ Continue Reading ]
Didache But concerning the apostles and prophets, according to the decree of the Gospel, thus do. 4. Let every apostle that cometh to you be received as the Lord.[105]... [ Continue Reading ]
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third Those square white stones which fitted exactly into each other, are apostles, bishops, teachers, and deacons, who have lived in godly purity, and have acted as bishops and teachers and deacons chastely and reverently to the elect of God. Some of them have fallen asle... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans But as for me, I am ashamed to be counted one of them; for indeed I am not worthy, as being the very last of them, and one born out of due time.[56] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I And that the Saviour appeared to her when she lay outside of the Pleroma as a kin... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen de Principiis Book I Paul were sprung from the root of a good tree, how should they be deemed to have brought forth fruits so wicked? And if they should return the answer which is generally invented, that it was not Paul who persecuted, but some other person, I know not whom, who was in Paul... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Wherefore also Paul, since he was the apostle of the Gentiles, says, "I laboured more than they all."[340] Origen de Principiis Book III and again, "I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me."[307]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III after the resurrection, he says in continuation, "But whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed,"[223] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV if Marcion be an apostle, still as Paul says, "Whether it be I or they, so we preach; "[103] Tertullian O... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III It is plain, then, that Paul knew no other Christ besides Him alone, who both suffered, and was buried, and rose gain, who was also born, and whom he speaks of as man. For after remarking, "But if Christ be preached, that He rose from the dead,"[334] Tertullian T... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die."[33] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But now Christ has risen from the dead, the first-fruits of those that sleep;... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on John Book X Now there are some who fall into confusion on this head of the Father and the Son, and we must devote a few words to them. They quote the text,[116]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh now heard, except it be, forsooth, in the entertainments of the heretics? For, allowing that the word of the gospel may be called "the trump of God," since it was still calling men, yet they must at that time either be dead as to the body, that they may b... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Clement Let us consider, beloved, how the Lord continually proves to us that there shall be a future resurrection, of which He has rendered the Lord Jesus Christ the first-fruits[101] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III and receiving into His bosom the ancient fathers, has regenerated them into... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Now that falls down which returns to the ground; and that rises again which falls down. "Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection."[399] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes Thus it says: "There is one glory of the sun, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III he might acquire for himself hearers void of faith, affecting to be esteemed a teacher, and endeavouring from time to time to employ sayings of this kind often [made use of] by Paul: "In Adam we all die; "[468] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V n Adam, that breat... [ Continue Reading ]
Didache in heaven; then the sign of the sound of the trumpet; and the third, the resurrection of the dead; 7. yet not of all, but as it is said: The Lord shall come and all His saints with Him.[151]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Praxeas But it remains so firm and stable in its own state, notwithstanding the introduction into it of the Trinity, that the Son actually has to restore it entire to the Father; even as the apostle says in his epistle, concerning the very end of all: "When He shall have delivere... [ Continue Reading ]
Fragments of Papias The presbyters, the disciples of the apostles, say that this is the gradation and arrangement of those who are saved, and that they advance through steps of this nature; and that, moreover, they ascend through the Spirit to the Son, and through the Son to the Father; and that in... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III Now Adam had been conquered, all life having been taken away from him: wherefore, when the foe was conquered in his turn, Adam received new life; and the last enemy, death, is destroyed,[463] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Now he says in a previous... [ Continue Reading ]
Fragments of Papias And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all."[21] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians And again, "When all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall He also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God may be all in all."[19] Origen de Principiis Book III Now the language of the apostle, according to their view, appears... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V But we will not be wanting (in some defence of the doctrine) even here, in consideration of such persons as are ignorant of that little treatise. "What," asks he, "shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not? "[436]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh "And why," he inquires, "stand we in jeopardy every hour? "[350]... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus Or if his call should come to him before, his faith shall not be without reward, seeing it was prepared for martyrdom; without loss of time, the reward is rendered by the judgment of God. In persecution, the warfare,-in peace, the... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts,[32] Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans From Syria even unto Rome I fight with beasts,[38] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I of the dead, he makes use of a tragic Iambic line, when he said, "What advantageth it m... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian To His Wife Book I Follow companies and conversations worthy of God, mindful of that short verse, sanctified by the apostle's quotation of it, "Ill interviews good morals do corrupt."[94] Cyprian Epistle LIV But for the rest, let our most beloved brethren firmly decline, and avoid the... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III " Si quis autem ea ratione dicit malam generationem, idem eam dicat bonam, quatenus in ipso veritatem cognoscimus. "Abluamini juste, et ne peccetis. Ignorationem enim Dei quidam habent,"[198]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V the next question which the apostle has discussed equally relates to the body. But "some man will say, `How are the dead raised up? With what body do they come? '"[446] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh For useless must that conflict be deemed (which is... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For he declares, "That which thou sowest cannot be quickened, unless first it die."[40] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh And with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once to illustrate the point, as if an objector had plied him with some such question. "T... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Indeed, since he proposes as his examples "wheat grain, or some other grain, to which God giveth a body, such as it hath pleased Him; "[449]... [ Continue Reading ]
Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians than the corporeal, and that the intelligible precedes the sensible, although we become acquainted with the latter earliest, since the corporeal is formed from the incorporeal, by the combination with it of the intelligible, and that the sensible is formed from... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "there is one kind of flesh of men, whilst there is another of beasts, and (another) of birds; that there are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; and that there is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars"[452] T... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh In like manner, those also who after Him are heavenly, are understood to have this celestial quality predicated of them not from their present nature, but from their future glory; because in a preceding sentence, which originated this distinction respecti... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II Whence, then, comes the passion of the youngest Aeon, if the light of the Father is that from which all other lights have been formed, and which is by nature impassible? And how can one Aeon be spoken of as either younger or older among themselves, since there is b... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V " And therefore in reference to it he says, in the first [Epistle] to the Corinthians: "So also is the resurrection of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it rises in incorruption."[39] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V a resurrection of the flesh or body, which he... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But what is that which, like a grain of wheat, is sown in the earth and decays, unless it be the bodies which are laid in the earth, into which seeds are also cast? And for this reason he said, "It is sown in dishonour, it rises in glory."[41] Irenaeus Against Here... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II How is it possible, therefore, that that seed should be after images of the angels, seeing it has obtained a form after the likeness of men? Why, again, since it was of a spiritual nature, had it any need of descending into flesh? For what is carnal stands in need... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Wherefore also "the first Adam was made" by the Lord "a living soul, the second Adam a quickening spirit."[87] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V For to this effect he just before remarked of Christ Himself: "The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V "But that is not first which is spiritual," says the apostle, speaking this as if with reference to us human beings; "but that is first which is animal, afterwards that which is spiritual,"[86] Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul First of all there comes the (natural... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III " For I have shown that the Son of God did not then begin to exist, being with the Father from the beginning; but when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh[325] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V " "The first man is of the earth, earthy; the s... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Paul, too, very plainly set forth the material, animal, and spiritual, saying in one place, "As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; "[108] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V The flesh, therefore, when destitute of the Spirit of God, is dead, not havin... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And on this account he (the apostle) declares, "As we have borne the image of him who is of the earth, we shall also bear the image of Him who is from heaven."[62] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Since, therefore, in that passage he recounts those works of the fl... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I And they assert that this very great error prevailed among his disciples, that they imagined he had risen in a mundane body, not knowing that "flesh[325] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Among the other [truths] proclaimed by the apostle, there is also this one, ... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V But how shall it be changed, if it shall have no real existence? If, however, this is only said of those who shall be found in the flesh[929] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh For when he adds, "This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V ed were made whole in those members which had in times past been afflicted; and the dead rose in the identical bodies, their limbs and bodies receiving health, and that life which was granted by the Lord, who prefigures eternal things by temporal, and shows that it... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians And [says] the apostle, "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality."[31] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V contains all things, and then, through the wisdom of God, serves for the use of men, and having received the W... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I f God took place in these last times, that is, in the end, rather than in the beginning [of the world]; and unfold what is contained in the Scriptures concerning the end [itself], and things to come; and not be silent as to how it is that God has made the Gentiles,... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II own passion rescued us from offences, and sins, and such like thorns; and having destroyed the devil, deservedly said in triumph, "O Death, where is thy sting? "[171] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "O death, where is thy sting? "[485] Tertullian Aga... [ Continue Reading ]
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes and "the strength of sin."[243] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes and that "the law is the strength of sin,"[253]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione does not bid us hide away out of sight as sons of darkness. He commands us to stand stedfast,[38] The First Epistle of Pope Fabian We exhort you also, according to the word of the apostle, to be "stedfast and immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord;... [ Continue Reading ]