2 Corinthians 11:2

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

Directly in point is the instance of the apostle, who says, writing the Corinthians: "For I have espoused you to one man, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ,"[38]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Zelo enim vos zelo Dei; despondi enim vos uni viro, virginem castam exhibere Christo."[120]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III "Vereor autem, ne sicut serpens seduxit Evam in astutia, corrumpantur sensus vestri a simplicitate, quae in Christo est,"[121]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

); when, again, he "espouses the church as a chaste virgin to Christ,"[578]

Tertullian On Modesty

For flesh not yet manumitted to Christ, for whom it was being kept,[265]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Chiding)-Paul-written that such zeal hath he.[217]

Cyprian Epistle LXXIV

For there are not many spouses of Christ, since the apostle says, "I have espoused you, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ; "[21]

Methodius The Banquet of the Ten Virgins

who sees her daughters after a long separation, she embraced and kissed each one of us with great joy, saying, 'O, my daughters you have come with toil and pain to me who am earnestly longing to conduct you to the pasture of immortality; toilsomely have you come by a way abounding with many frightful reptiles; for, as I looked, I saw you often stepping aside, and I was fearing lest you should turn back and slip over the precipices. But thanks to the Bridegroom to whom I have espoused[6]

Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy; "meaning by Jerusalem, as I said, these very undefiled and incorrupt souls, which, having with self-denial drawn in the pure draught of virginity with unpolluted lips, are "espoused to one husband," to be presented "as a chaste virgin to Christ"[78]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI

and the women in accordance with the saying, "I wish to present you all as a pure virgin to Christ; "[21]