1 Clement Wherefore, having so many great and glorious examples set before us, let us turn again to the practice of that peace which from the beginning was the mark set before us;[85] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Wherefore also, having encompassing us such a cloud," holy and transparent... [ Continue Reading ]
Five Books in Reply to Marcion For praise pursuing,[85]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I It has therefore been well said, "My son, despise not thou the correction of God; nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[72] Tertullian Of Patience us to give thanks and rejo... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Clement "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[249] Origen de Principiis Book III God accordingly abandons and neglects those whom He has judged undeserving of chastisement: "For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He rec... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II If, therefore, any one be slandered and falsely accused, such a one is blessed; for the Scripture says, "A man that is a reprobate is not tried by God."[46]... [ Continue Reading ]
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Sixth These have been perverted from the truth: among them there is the hope of repentance, by which it is possible to live. Corruption, then, has a hope of a kind of renewal,[7] Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection For the present we restrain its sprouts... [ Continue Reading ]
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fourth And therefore I say to you, that if any one is tempted by the devil, and sins after that great and holy calling. in which the Lord has called His people to everlasting life,[13]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen O surpassing love for man! Not as a teacher speaking to his pupils, not as a master to his domestics, nor as God to men, but as a father, does the Lord gently admonish his children. Thus Moses confesses that "he was filled with quaking and terror"[10... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book VII "Ye are come," says he, "unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels."[59] Origen Against Celsus Book VIII But indeed they do in a sense separate themselves and stand aloof from those who are a... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II and "an holy nation."[140]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins What, then, is the Paraclete's administrative office but this: the direction of discipline, the revelation of the Scriptures, the reformation of the intellect, the advancement toward the "better things? "[5]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Monogamy will fall far more heavily and bitterly in the "universal shaking"[111]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book VI Nor is the Spirit, in our opinion, a "body," any more than fire is a "body," which God is said to be in the passage, "Our God is a consuming fire."[362] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VI Now he is of the appearance of fire. Moses also, he says, expresses... [ Continue Reading ]