Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

who go into matters of which they have no perception.[66]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Et rursus dicit: "Nemo vos seducat in voluntaria humilitatis religione, et parcimonia corporis."[68]

Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

The doctrine, however, of Simon's sorcery, which inculcated the worship of angels,[363]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

But when he blames those who alleged visions of angels as their authority for saying that men must abstain from meats-"you must not touch, you must not taste"-in a voluntary humility, (at the same time) "vainly puffed up in the fleshly mind, and not holding the Head,"[896]

Origen Against Celsus Book V

customs, and converted afterwards to Christianity by a miraculous appearance of Jesus, the following words may be read in the Epistle to the Colossians: "Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind; and not holding the Head, from which all the body by joint and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God."[19]

Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience

and says: "See thou do it not; for I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren. Worship Jesus the Lord."[57]

Novation On the Jewish Meats

And such the apostle fitly rebuked, as "obeying the superstitions of angels, puffed up by their fleshly mind; not holding Christ the head, from whom all the body, joined together by links, and inwoven and grown together by mutual members in the bond of charity, increaseth to God; "[34]

The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

go wandering about idly, and exalt themselves, and make their boast" in the mind of the flesh."[110]

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