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 "travailing in birth with them until Christ should be formed in them; "[101]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

From the free woman,[118]

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

For he says, "My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you; "[32]

Methodius Discourse VIII. Thekla

receive the features, and the image, and the manliness of Christ, the likeness of the form of the Word being stamped upon them, and begotten in them by a true knowledge and faith, so that in each one Christ is spiritually born. And, therefore, the Church swells and travails in birth until Christ is formed in us,[23]

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