Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

h understand His hand,-that hand which measures immensity; that hand which, by its own measure, spreads out the measure of the heavens, and which comprises in its hollow the earth with the abysses; which contains in itself the breadth, and length, and the deep below, and the height above of the whole creation; which is seen, which is heard and understood, and which is invisible? And for this reason God is "above all principality, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named,"[263]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For they were assisted by the Scriptures, which the Lord confirmed and tiff-filled, in coming such as He had been announced; but here, [in the case of the Gentiles,] there was a certain foreign erudition, and a new doctrine [to be received, namely], that the gods of the nations not only were no gods at all, but even the idols of demons; and that there is one God, who is "above all principality, and dominion, and power, and every name which is named; "[342]

Origen de Principiis Book I

and orders besides those which he had named, he says of the Saviour: "Who is above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come."[92]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VII

Since, therefore, it was requisite, he says, that we should be revealed as the children of God, in expectation of whose manifestation, he says, the creation habitually groans and travails in pain, the Gospel came into the world, and passed through every Principality, and Power, and Dominion, and every Name that is named.[43]

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

For the mountains are to be explained by the heavens, and the ninety and nine sheep by the principalities and powers[15]

Acts of Saint Philip the Apostle When He Went to Upper Hellas

And Philip said: He with whom I am about to make you acquainted as Lord, is above every name; here is no other.[4]

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