Tertullian On Modesty s, and strive rather after perfection, and not lay again the foundations of repentance from the works of the dead, he says: "For impossible it is that they who have once been illuminated, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have participated in the Holy Spirit, and have tas... [ Continue Reading ]
Theophilus to Autolycus Book I r house is beautiful and serviceable when it has not been anointed? And what man, when he enters into this life or into the gymnasium, is not anointed with oil? And what work has either ornament or beauty unless it be anointed and burnished? Then the air and all that... [ 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] Theognostus of Alexandria From His Seven Books of Hypotyposes unes with the perfected, a... [ Continue Reading ]
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third Those then who are to repent, if they do repent, will be strong in faith, if they now repent while the tower is building. For if the building be finished, there will not be more room for any one, but he will be rejected.[22] Tertullian On Modesty Therefore the apos... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen de Principiis Book III To show more clearly, however, what we mean, let us take the illustration employed by the Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews, where he says, "For the earth, which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is... [ Continue Reading ]
Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third Thinking, then, that they could find a better, they wander and become wretched, and enter upon pathless places. But those which fell into the fire and were burned[27] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes For these men refer the beginning and... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II And we desire that every one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope," down to "made an high priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek."[266]... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Clement He who has commanded us not to lie, shall much more Himself not lie; for nothing is impossible with God, except to lie.[108] 1 Clement He who has commanded us not to lie, shall much more Himself not lie; for nothing is impossible with God, except to lie.[130]... [ Continue Reading ]