Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul To ourselves even does the apostle allow the concupiscible quality. "If any man," says he, "desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."[112] Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity Thence, therefore, among us the prescript is more fully and more care... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quid autem ad haec dicunt, qui in legem invehuntur, et in matrimonium, quasi sit solum a lege concessum, non autem etiam in Novo Testamento? Quid ad has leges latas possunt dicere, qui sationem abhorrent et generationem? cure "episcopum" quoque, "qui domui re... [ Continue Reading ]
The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity not misleaders; not "lovers of money; not malevolent."[140]... [ Continue Reading ]
Didache Appoint, therefore, for yourselves, bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men meek, and not lovers of money,[130] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II who also has herself had no other husband, "ruling well his own house."[15]... [ Continue Reading ]
Life and Passion of Cyprian by Pontius 3. The apostle's epistle says[3] Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II Let him therefore be sober, prudent, decent, firm, stable, not given to wine; no striker, but gentle; not a brawler, not covetous; "not a novice, test, being puffed up with pride, be... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians and not of men. They must not be slanderers, double-tongued,[31]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII not even God could bind, in like manner, no Peter, whoever he may be; and if any one who is not a Peter, and does not possess the things here spoken of, imagines as a Peter that he will so bind on earth that the things bound are bound in heaven, and will so loo... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV ; and, in regard todeacons, "Let the deacons," he says, "be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and theirown houses well,"[181]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III WE have learned from none others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the groun... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus reason He sent the Word, that He might be manifested to the world; and He, being despised by the people [of the Jews], was, when preached by the Apostles, believed on by the Gentiles.[59] Epistle of Barnabas Behold again: Jesus who was manifested, both by type and... [ Continue Reading ]