John 10:18

Origen de Principiis Book II

But since, agreeably to the faculty of free-will, variety and diversity characterized the individual souls, so that one was attached with a warmer love to the Author of its being, and another with a feebler and weaker regard, that soul (anima) regarding which Jesus said, "No one shall take my life (animam) from me,"[82]

Origen de Principiis Book II

from Me, but I lay it down of Myself."[156]

Origen de Principiis Book IV

is most clearly shown by the Saviour in the Gospels, when He said, "No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again."[35]

Origen Against Celsus Book II

oured to calumniate them by comparing them to acts of sorcery, should have manifested also in His death some greater display of divine power, so that His soul, if it pleased, might leave its body, and having performed certain offices out of it, might return again at pleasure? And such a declaration is Jesus said to have made in the Gospel of John, when He said: "No man taketh My life from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."[58]

Origen Against Celsus Book III

But my Jesus said regarding His own soul (which was separated from the body, not by virtue of any human necessity, but by the miraculous power which was given Him also for this purpose): "No one taketh my life from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."[103]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

And He who is inseparable from the Father cries to the Father, and commends to Him His spirit; and bowing His head, He gives up the ghost, who said, "I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again; "[290]

Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

and because He was not overmastered by death, as being Himself Life, He said this: "I lay it down of myself."[291]

Cyprian Treatise VI On the Vanity of Idols

Therefore the course of events fulfilled the promise. For when crucified, the office of the executioner being forestalled,[19]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

I have the power of laying it down, and I have the power of taking it again. For this commandment I have received from my Father."[281]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

Or when, in another passage, and on another subject, He declares, "I have power to lay down my life, and again to take it up; for this commandment I have received of my Father."[167]

Dionysius The Gospel According to Luke

And accordingly, as by the intensity of the supplication and the severe agony, so also by the dense and excessive sweat, he made the facts patent, that the Saviour was man by nature and in reality, and not in mere semblance and appearance, and that He was subject to all the innocent sensibilities natural to men. Nevertheless the words, "I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again,"[17]

Acts and Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Andrew

And in order that He might most fully explain that He willingly underwent the passion, He said to us,[5]

Origen Commentary on John Book VI

And He who led this lamb to the slaughter was God in man, the great High-Priest, as he shows by the words:[157]