Revelation 2:1
Tertullian On Modesty and with "the angel of the Church,"[156]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty and with "the angel of the Church,"[156]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Repentance the meaning of "what the Spirit saith to the churches." He imputes to the Ephesians "forsaken love; "[71]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV it would not have been deserted.[37] Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I Women who possessed angels (as husbands) could desire nothing more; they had, forsooth, made a grand match! Assuredly they who, of course, did sometimes think whence they had fallen,[1... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Wherefore the Word has also spoken of them thus: "But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate."[303] Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies Enough it is for us that this heresy of the Nicolaitans has been condemned by the... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Repentance to his own paradise,[116] Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also in the same place: "He who shall overcome I will give him to eat of the tree of life, which as in the paradise of my God."[489] Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia who, after th... [ Continue Reading ]
Instructions of Commodianus I cannot comprehend all things in a little treatise; the curiosity of the learned men shall find my name in this.[22] Recognitions of Clement V For in God's estimation he is not a Jew who is called a Jew among men (nor is he a Gentile that is called a Gentile), but he... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian De Corona Nay, then, He does even choose. He calls us to it. To him who conquers He says, "I will give a crown Of life."[62] Tertullian Scorpiace t that which he who denies is about to pay, who has to be slain, body and soul, in hell? And if he teaches that we must die for the brethren... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews Who will ply the sword without practising the contraries to lenity and justice; that is, guile, and asperity, and injustice, proper (of course) to the business of battles? See we, then, whether that which has another action be not another sword,-that is, the Divine... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Scorpiace Also to the angel of the church in Pergamus (mention was made) of Antipas,[84]... [ Continue Reading ]
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus For, speaking no longer by the Spirit of God, but setting up another law of fornication contrary to the law of God,[95] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics John, however, in the Apocalypse is charged to chastise those "who eat things sacrifice... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But as the engrafted wild olive does not certainly lose the substance of its wood, but changes the quality of its fruit, and receives another name, being now not a wild olive, but a fruit-bearing olive, and is called so; so also, when man is grafted in by faith and... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty Behold, I will give her into a bed, and her adulterers with herself into greatest pressure, unless they shall have repented of her works."[233]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Repentance reproaches the Thyatirenes with "fornication," and "eating of things sacrificed to idols; "[72]... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Epistle VIII Nor let any one of you be saddened as if he were inferior to those who before you have suffered tortures, have overcome the world and trodden it under foot, and so have come to the Lord by a glorious road. For the Lord is the "searcher out of the reins and the hearts."[11] Cyp... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Idolatry Else, both the devil's ingenuity in malice, and God the Lord's in the Discipline by which He fortifies us against the devil's depths,[9] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI The Father, on the other hand, alone, without copulation, has produced (an offspring). She... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Idolatry For avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens.[151]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Repentance and "a potter's vessel,"[27]... [ Continue Reading ]