Tertullian Against Praxeas ? "[182] Tertullian On Monogamy -shall we therefore so interpret Paul as if he demonstrates the apostles to have had wives?[66] Tertullian On Modesty And, "(I think) God hath selected us the apostles (as) hindmost, like men appointed to fight with wild beasts; since w... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Dicit itaque in quadam epistola: "Non habemus potestatem sororem uxorem circumducendi, sicut et reliqui apostoli? "[74] Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity Thus it comes to pass that "all things are lawful, but not all are expedient," so long as (it remai... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty For there is extant withal an Epistle to the Hebrews under the name of Barnabas-a man sufficiently accredited by God, as being one whom Paul has stationed next to himself in the uninterrupted observance of abstinence: "Or else, I alone and Barnabas, have not we the power of wo... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V he begins with a copious induction of examples-of soldiers, and shepherds, and husbandmen.[321]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book II Doth God care for oxen? or saith He it altogether for our sakes? for for our sakes it was written," and so on?[9]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews But the new law's wont was to point to clemency, and to convert to tranquillity the pristine ferocity of "glaives" and "lances," and to remodel the pristine execution of "war" upon the rivals and foes of the law into the pacific actions of "ploughing" and "tilling... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book II to the refreshment[220] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII Now the law dies to him who has gone up to the condition of blessedness, and no longer lives under the law, but acts like to Christ, who, though He became under law for the sake of those under law, th... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V When he teaches that every man ought to live of his own industry,[320]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II I gain the man by a little self-restraint. "Have we not power to eat and to drink? "[29]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Of this he boasted, and suffered no man to rob him of such glory[327] Tertullian On Modesty With what kind of superciliousness, on the contrary, was he compelled to declare, "But to me it is of small moment that I be interrogated by you, or by a human court-day;... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews And so there is incumbent on us a necessity[89]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "For though I be free from all men, I have made myself servant to all," it is said, "that I might gain all. And every one that striveth for mastery is temperate in all things."[136] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI For instance, Paul circumcised Timothy... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I "For not only for the Hebrews and those that are under the law," according to the apostle, "is it right to become a Jew, but also a Greek for the sake of the Greeks, that we may gain all."[37] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I Also in the Epistle to the Co... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V Wherefore also, to those that ask the wisdom that is with us, we are to hold out things suitable, that with the greatest possible ease they may, through their own ideas, be likely to arrive at faith in the truth. For "I became all things to all men, that I migh... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV But I so run, not as uncertainty; I fight, not as One beating the air; but I make my body livid, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when preaching to others, I may myself be rendered a castaway."[617] Cyprian Epistle VIII "Do ye not know," says he, ... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Ad Martyras They are kept from luxury, from daintier meats, from more pleasant drinks; they are pressed, racked, worn out; the harder their labours in the preparatory training, the stronger is the hope of victory. "And they," says the apostle, "that they may obtain a corruptible crown."... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book VII And each of us runs "not as uncertain," and he so fights with evil "not as one beating the air,"[136]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Et ideo Paulus quoque: "Corpus meum," inquit, "castigo, et in servitutem redigo; quoniam qui certat, omnia continet," hoc est, in omnibus continet, non ab omnibus abstinens, sed continenter utens iis, quae utenda judicavit, "illi quidera ut corruptibilem coro... [ Continue Reading ]