Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

In the same way they oracularly declare, that one power having departed also from the Duodecad, has perished; and this was represented by the woman who lost the drachma,[213]

Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

had lost one of her ten pieces of silver, and therefore she sought it;[135]

Tertullian On Repentance

What meaning for us have those themes of the Lord's parables? Is not the fact that a woman has lost a drachma, and seeks it and finds it, and invites her female friends to share her joy, an example of a restored sinner?[79]

Tertullian On Modesty

Similarly, the parable of the drachma,[85]

Methodius Discourse IX. Tusiane

For the mind being cleansed by laborious exercises from the distracting thoughts which darken it, quickly perceives the truth; as the widow in the Gospels[17]

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