Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II

For "if thou shalt love the Lord try God," and then "thy neighbour," let its first manifestation be towards God in thanksgiving and psalmody, and the second toward our neighbour in decorous fellowship. For says the apostle, "Let the Word of the Lord dwell in you richly."[103]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II

For the psalm is a melodious and sober blessing. The apostle calls the psalm "a spiritual song."[107]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

Together they pray, together prostrate themselves, together perform their fasts; mutually teaching, mutually exhorting,[63]

Tertullian To His Wife Book II

Alms (are given) without (danger of ensuing) torment; sacrifices (attended) without scruple; daily diligence (discharged) without impediment: (there is) no stealthy signing, no trembling greeting, no mute benediction. Between the two echo psalms and hymns;[64]

Pseudo-Cyprian On the Public Shows

10. Let the faithful Christian, I say, devote himself to the sacred Scriptures,[18]

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