Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics They bear in mind how the churches were rebuked by the apostle: "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? "[292] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes nor any dubiety? Who, I ask you, O foolish Galatian, has bewitched you, as... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Peccatun enim, cure sit "corruptio," non potest babere societatem cure incorruptione," quae est justitia. "Adeo stulti," inquit, "estis? cure spiritu coeperitis, nunc came consummamini."[209] Origen de Principiis Book I and, "Seeing ye began in the Spirit,... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, announced beforehand unto Abraham, that in him all nations should be blessed. So then they which be of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham."[317]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But the Scripture, fore-seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, declared to Abraham beforehand, That in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which are of faith shall be blessed with faithful Abraham."[282] Tertullian Against Marcion Book... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ,"[121] Tertullian On Monogamy For if" faith" is the source whence we are reckoned to Abraham as his "sons" (as the apostle teaches, saying to the Galatians, "You know, consequently, that (they) who are of faith, these are sons of Abraham"[32] Tertullian On Mono... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ of Abraham, "And in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed," he adds, "He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."[310]... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI For says He: "Cursed be he that does not continue in all things that are written in the book of the law to do them."[155]... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians and be ye steadfast, "for the just shall live by faith; "[3] Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity But where three are, a church is, albeit they be laics. For each individual lives by his own faith,[38]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II Whether, then, Egypt and the land of Canaan be the symbol of the world and of deceit, or of sufferings and afflictions; the oracle shows us what must be abstained from, and what, being divine and not worldly, must be observed. And when it is said, "The man tha... [ Continue Reading ]
Dialogue of Justin Then I replied, "Just as God commanded the sign to be made by the brazen serpent, and yet He is blameless; even so, though a curse lies in the law against persons who are crucified, yet no curse lies on the Christ of God, by whom all that have committed things worthy of a curse a... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV For, as I have shown, it existed in Abraham antecedently to circumcision, as it also did in the rest of the righteous who pleased God: and in these last times, it again sprang up among mankind through the coming of the Lord. But circumcision and the law of works oc... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V "But," says he, "I speak after the manner of men: when we were children, we were placed in bondage under the elements of the world."[131] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V a figure (as the apostle wrote it); because after he had said, "I speak after the manner of... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Now He does not say, And of seeds, as if [He spake] of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ."[281] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews although we have God Himself as an adequate engager and faithful promiser, in that He promised to Abraham that "in... [ Continue Reading ]
Novation On the Jewish Meats But the law which followed subsequently ordained[12]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III It was added, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made; [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a Mediator."[53] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V This is the seed of which the apostle says in the Epistle to the Galatians, "that the law of w... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians And those very apostles, who said "that there is one God,"[19] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Chiding)-Paul-written that such zeal hath he.[217] Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments but two,"[62] A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity the sources and r... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V His own antagonist! For this (I suppose it was, that) the law of the Creator had "concluded all under sin,"[632]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I sal salvation of humanity, and that there is the same equality before the righteous and loving God, and the same fellowship between Him and all, the apostle most clearly showed, speaking to the following effect: "Before faith came, we were kept under the... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV but he has also said, that the law was our pedagogue [to bring us] to Christ Jesus.[29] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I For the word which, in matters of doctrine, explains and reveals, is that whose province it is to teach. But our Educator[3] Cleme... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."[64] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V What I say, then, is this, that that God is the object of faith who prefigured t... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book III Now since Emmanuel is God-with-us, and God-with-us is Christ, who is in us (for "as many of you as are baptized into Christ, have put on Christ"[164] Tertullian On Baptism Christ's baptism,[118] Tertullian On Monogamy -inasmuch as they "who are baptized in Ch... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians for there is one nature, and one family of mankind. For "in Christ there is neither bond nor free."[34] Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen And the one whole Christ is not divided: "There is neither barbarian, nor Jew, nor Greek, neither male... [ Continue Reading ]