NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

1 Timothy 6:8

Tertullian To His Wife Book I

promising that He knows what is needful for each of His servants-not indeed ponderous necklaces, not burdensome garments, not Gallic mules nor German bearers, which all add lustre to the glory of nuptials; but "sufficiency,"[47]

Novation On the Jewish Meats

For, moreover, preferring Lazarus in his very hunger and in his sores themselves, and with the rich man's dogs, He restrained the destroyers of salvation, the belly and the palate, by examples. The apostle also, when he said, "Having food and raiment, we are therewith content,"[36]

Lactantius Divine Institutes Book VI

Why, then, do you hesitate to lay that out well which perhaps a single robbery will snatch away from you, or a proscription suddenly arising, or the plundering of an enemy? Why do you fear to make a frail and perishable good everlasting, or to entrust your treasures to God as their preserver, in which case you need not fear thief and robber, nor rust, nor tyrant? He who is rich towards God can never be poor.[109]

Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

I have taught those in a middle station to be content with food and covering;[30]

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1 Timothy 6:8

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