Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I "[73] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I And the child, though heir, differeth nothing from a servant, till the time appointed of the father."[135] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X Every soul, therefore, which comes to childhood, and is on the wa... [ Continue Reading ]
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book IX For it seems expedient that we, making an onslaught upon the opinion which constitutes the prime source of (contemporaneous) evils, should prove what are the originating principles[4] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes And in... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus As long then as the former time[46] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again, in his Epistle to the Galatians, he says: "But when the fulness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law,... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ever done to bring about the fulness of time, or to wait patiently its completion? If nothing, what an impotent state to have to wait for the Creator's time, in servility to the Creator! But for what end did He send His Son? "To redeem them that were under the law,... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V That we may have, therefore the assurance that we are the children of God, "He hath sent forth His Spirit into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father."[148] Excerpts of Theodotus Father."[35]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I See how He has admitted those to be children who are under fear and sins; but has conferred manhood on those who are under faith, by calling them sons, in contradistinction from the children that are under the law: "For thou art no more a servant," he say... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II and "those which are not gods,"[45] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And the Apostle Paul also, saying, "For though ye have served them which are no gods; ye now know God, or rather, are known of God,"[44] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews For the Jews say, th... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians by whose blood ye were redeemed; by whom ye have known God, or rather have been known by Him;[5] Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen Let the philosophers, then, own as their teachers the Persians, or the Sauromatae, or the Magi, from whom they ha... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus of the flesh as a proof of election, and as if, on account of it, they were specially beloved by God,-how is it not a subject of ridicule? And as to their observing months and days,[14] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ," even the rudiments of the law: "Ye observ... [ Continue Reading ]
Dialogue of Justin O trumpet of peace to the soul that is at war! O weapon that puttest to flight terrible passions! O instruction that quenches the innate fire of the soul! The Word exercises an influence which does not make poets: it does not equip philosophers nor skilled orators, but by its ins... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I Wherefore the apostle himself also in every case uses stringent language to the Churches, after the Lord's example; and conscious of his own boldness, and of the weakness of his hearers, he says to the Galatians: "Am I your enemy, because I tell you the t... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quare Paulus quoque scribens ad Galatas, dicit: "Filioli mei, quos iterum parturio, donec formetur in vobis Christus."[187] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V and "Ye are my children, of whom I travail again in birth."[361] Tertullian On Monogamy "travailin... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V ai," in relation to the synagogue of the Jews, according to the law, "which gendereth to bondage"-"the other gendereth" (to liberty, being raised) above all principality, and power, and dominion, and every name that is l named, not only in this world, but in that w... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book III teaching the Galatians, moreover, that the two narratives of the sons of Abraham had an allegorical meaning in their course;[64]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Now the father of the human race is the Word of God, as Moses points out when he says, "Is not He thy father who hath obtained thee [by generation], and formed thee, and created thee?[437] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X Here you will inquire if the scribe of... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians which, if you carefully study, you will find to be the means of building you up in that faith which has been given you, and which, being followed by hope, and preceded by love towards God, and Christ, and our neighbour, "is the mother of us all."[23] Irenaeus... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I and in what sense He says that "more are the children of her that was desolate, than of her who possessed a husband."[143] Five Books in Reply to Marcion Barren, giv'n birth:[117] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V And the Phrygians style him, he says,... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV As Paul does also testify, saying that we are children of Abraham because of the similarity of our faith, and the promise of inheritance.[77] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V Thus also the apostle says in the Epistle to the Galatians: "But ye, brethren, as Isaac... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I Philosophers, then, are children, unless they have been made men by Christ. "For if the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the free,"[136]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II Nay, rather banish quite away from your "free"[65]... [ Continue Reading ]