Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

We shall, however, treat of prayer in due course by and by. But we ought to have works that cry aloud, as becoming "those who walk in the day."[258]

Tertullian On Fasting

Whether, moreover, the apostle had any acquaintance with xerophagies-(the apostle) who had repeatedly practised greater rigours, "hunger, and thirst, and fists many," who had forbidden "drunkennesses and revellings"[75]

Tertullian On Fasting

Which alliance the apostle withal was aware of; and hence, after premising, "Not in drunkenness and revels," he adjoined, "nor in couches and lusts."[118]

Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas

and if costly dinners, about these we have received a commandment to keep away from them, not to be burdened by carousing and drunkenness and the cares of life;[27]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

and are no longer the children of darkness or night, but have become the sons of day, and walk honestly as in the day;[231]

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