The Acts of Barnabas And when it came to pass that they finished teaching in Antioch, on the first of the week they took counsel together to set out for the places of the East, and after that to go into Cyprus, and oversee all the churches in which they had spoken the word of God. And Barnabas entr... [ Continue Reading ]
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me,[51]... [ Continue Reading ]
Dionysius Extant Fragments Part I There is, besides, another John mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, with the surname Mark, whom Barnabas and Paul attached to themselves as companion, and of whom again it is said: "And they had also John to their minister."[22]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Idolatry Both he and that other magician, who was with Sergius Paulus, (since he began opposing himself to the same apostles) was mulcted with loss of eyes.[56] Tertullian On Modesty and Elymas[273]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul Many attempts were also wrought against the apostles by the sorcerers Simon and Elymas,[335]... [ Continue Reading ]
Lactantius Divine Institutes Book V Another[21] Origen Commentary on John Book VI Hence the rebuke directed to a man of this kind and to all who resemble him, "Why pervert ye the right ways of the Lord? "[66]... [ Continue Reading ]
Dionysius Extant Fragments Part I But the writer says: "Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem."[23]... [ Continue Reading ]
From the Epistles of Alexander of Cappadocia Such was the case at Laranda, where Evelpis was thus exhorted by Neon; and at Iconium, Paulinus was thus exhorted by Celsus; and at Synada, Theodorus also by Atticus, our blessed brethren. And it is probable that this is done in other places also, althou... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews been known to God, and who had by Him been "upraised"[57]... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI It is plain that he could not endure to be under David's government, of whom God spake: "I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who will do all my commands."[8] The Second Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity Does not the case of D... [ Continue Reading ]
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IV that the ancients imposed the names of received animals upon certain specified stars, for the purpose of knowing them better, not from any similarity of nature; for what have the seven stars, distant one from another, in common with a bear, or the five... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione Therefore Paul and the apostles themselves, mindful of the precept of the Lord, bear this solemn testimony before Israel, which they had now filled with their doctrine-saying, "It was necessary that the word of God should have been first delivered to you; but seei... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V And who was it that said to Christ concerning giving light to the world: "I have set Thee as a light to the Gentiles"[530]... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians who were ordained to eternal life[74]... [ Continue Reading ]