Tertullian On Modesty Is he not withal "smiting them upon the mouth,"[147] Acts of Andrew and Matthias And as he was praying, the devil walked behind, and said to the multitudes: Strike him on the mouth, that he may not speak.[29]... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Epistle LIV Also subsequently, in the Acts of the Apostles, the blessed Apostle Paul, when it was said to him, "Revilest thou God's priest? "[21] Cyprian Epistle LXIV Mindful of which precepts, the blessed Apostle Paul, according to what we read in the Acts of the Apostles, when it was sa... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Epistle LIV -although they had begun to be sacrilegious, and impious, and bloody, the Lord having already been crucified, and had no longer retained anything of the priestly honour and authority-yet Paul, considering the name itself, however empty, and the shadow, as it were, of the priest,... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh among the Sadducees and the Pharisees: "Men and brethren," he says, "I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am now called in question by you,"[256]... [ Continue Reading ]
Pseudo-Tertullian Against All Heresies Of the Sadducees I am silent, who, springing from the root of this error, had the hardihood to adjoin to this heresy the denial likewise of the resurrection of the flesh.[3]... [ Continue Reading ]
Acts and Martyrdom of St. Matthew the Apostle And when what had come to pass was reported in the palace, the king Fulvanus, having learned what had been done by Matthew about his wife, and his son, and his daughter-in-law, rejoiced for a time at their purification; but seeing that they were insepar... [ Continue Reading ]