Theophilus to Autolycus Book II And at that time there was a righteous king called Melchisedek, in the city of Salem, which now is Jerusalem. This was the first priest of all priests[66] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews if not on the ground of equity and righteousness, (in the observance) of a na... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II He is Melchizedek, "King of peace,"[46] The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs VI the Light of righteousness, and healing[8]... [ Continue Reading ]
Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV Nevertheless it was His pleasure that He should be born as a man, that in all things He might be like His supreme Father· For God the Father Himself, who is the origin and source of all things, inasmuch as He is without parents, is most truly named by Trismegist... [ Continue Reading ]
Julius Africanus The Epistle to Aristides And they ought not indeed to have been ignorant that both orders of the ancestors enumerated are the generation of David, the royal tribe of Juda.[5]... [ Continue Reading ]
Five Books in Reply to Marcion By the arrival of the "perfect things."[260]... [ Continue Reading ]
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V For also our Father, on beholding the Good One, and on being initiated with Him, preserved the mysteries respecting which silence is enjoined, and sware, as it has been written, "The Lord sware, and will not repent."[247] Hippolytus Refutation of All He... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty and in all respects holy,[292]... [ Continue Reading ]