NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Colossians 2:9

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

and further, "In Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead; "[46]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book III

for if in Its fulness It has baffled man's understanding, much more has a portion of It, especially when partaking of the fulness[82]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Denote our bodies: God's true temple[225]

Origen de Principiis Book II

And when it is said "above thy fellows," it is meant that the grace of the Spirit was not given to it as to the prophets, but that the essential fulness of the Word of God Himself was in it, according to the saying of the apostle, "In whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."[88]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

en afterwards the world had attained unto its completion, there came down from above, for causes that we shall afterwards declare, in the time of Herod a certain man called Christ, with a threefold nature, and a threefold body, and a threefold power, (and) having in himself all (species of) concretions and potentialities (derivable) from the three divisions of the world; and that this, says (the Peratic), is what is spoken: "It pleased him that in him should dwell all fulness bodily,"[146]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book X

that this is what has been declared, "in whom dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."[12]

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Colossians 2:9

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