John 5:19

Tertullian Against Praxeas

It was the Son, therefore, who was always seen, and the Son who always conversed with men, and the Son who has always worked by the authority and will of the Father; because "the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do"[191]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

For as the Father hath eternal life in Himself, so also hath He given to the Son to have eternal life in Himself; and He hath given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of man"[260]

Origen de Principiis Book I

For as the image formed in a mirror unerringly reflects all the acts and movements of him who gazes on it, so would Wisdom have herself to be understood when she is called the stainless mirror of the power and working of the Father: as the Lord Jesus Christ also, who is the Wisdom of God, declares of Himself when He says, "The works which the Father doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."[53]

Origen de Principiis Book I

, of an earthly habitation: for he exercised power over those who were obedient to his wickedness, since "the whole of this world"-for I term this place of earth, world-"lieth in the wicked one,"[103]

Origen de Principiis Book II

That earth of ours, with its inhabitants, is also termed the world, as when Scripture says, "The whole world lieth in wickedness."[22]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

when, if Christ were only man, being born after John, He could not be before John, unless because He preceded him, in that He is God? If Christ is only man, how is it that "what things the Father doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise,"[97]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

the imitator[169]

Dionysius The Gospel According to Luke

to remain altogether without experience of ill. For, as one says, the whole world lieth in wickedness; "[28]

Dionysius An Exposition of Luke XXII. 46

For in the most general application it holds good, that it does not appear to be possible for any man to remain altogether without experience of ill: for, as one says, "The whole world lieth in wickedness; "[3]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

in the portion of the wicked one, as John says, that "the whole world lieth in wickedness,"[121]

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection " As then, when the days of our present life shall fail, those good deeds of beneficence to which we have attained in this unrighteous life, and in this "world" which "lieth in wickedness,"[94]

Origen Commentary on John Book X

Then we may very properly refer to Christ's declaration that He cannot do anything but what He sees the Father doing and saying,[117]