NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
John 1:3
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians
Nor is He a mere man, by whom and in whom all things were made; for "all things were made by Him."[20]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians
and the Word was God."[28]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I "The same was in the beginning with God"-this clause discloses the order of production. "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made; "[119]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
for the Word was the author of form and beginning to all the Aeons that came into existence after Him. But "what was made in Him," says John, "is life."[120]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
And again, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made."[277]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II
His own Word is both suitable and sufficient for the formation of all things, even as John, the disciple of the Lord, declares regarding Him: "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made."[9]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
For when he had spoken of the Word of God as having been in the Father, he added, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made."[63]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
), and was formed by the hand of God, that is, by the Word of God, for "all things were made by Him,"[430]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV
and as we read in the Gospel, "All things were made by Him; and without Him was nothing made; "[448]
Address of Tatian to the Greeks
follow the one God. "All things[59]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
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Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I
The divine Instructor is trustworthy, adorned as He is with three of the fairest ornament"-knowledge, benevolence, and authority of utterance;-with knowledge, for He is the paternal wisdom: "All Wisdom is from the Lord, and with Him for evermore; "-with authority of utterance, for He is God and Creator: "For all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made; "[261]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II
He that is illuminated is therefore awake towards God; and such an one lives. "For what was made in Him was life."[182]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
At home, therefore, they ought to regard with modesty parents and domestics; in the ways, those they meet; in the baths, women; in solitude, themselves; and everywhere the Word, who is everywhere, "and without Him was not anything."[59]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I
But a rational work is accomplished through God. "And nothing," it is said, "was made without Him"-the Word of God.[100]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI
And since the unoriginated Being is one, the Omnipotent God; one, too, is the First-begotten, "by whom all things were made, and without whom not one thing ever was made."[104]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI " Understand now for me the mystery of the truth, granting pardon if I shrink from advancing further in the treatment of it, by announcing this alone: "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not even one thing."[168]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI
and if "all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made,"[241]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI "by whom all things were made, and without whom not even one thing was made."[271]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI
(that is, of the great High Priest, "by whom all things were made, and without whom not even one thing was made"[289]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII
For the knowledge and apprehension of intellectual objects must necessarily be called certain scientific knowledge, whose function in reference to divine things is to consider what is the First Cause, and what that "by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made; "[25]
Fragments of Clement from the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus " For in the Gospel he thus speaks: "And what was made, in Him was life, and the life was the light of men."[74]
Fragments of Clement from the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus
He does not express the divine essence, but wishing to declare the majesty of God, he has applied to the Divinity what is best and most excellent in the view of men. Thus also Patti, when he speaks of "light inaccessible."[75]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
as that "Word of God by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made; "[872]
Tertullian Against Hermogenes
the fulness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and the creation. In the gospel, moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.[218]
Tertullian Against Hermogenes
Then that the Word was produced, "through whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made."[466]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh
In the first place, because all things were made by the Word of God, and without Him was nothing made.[34]
Tertullian Against Praxeas
For if indeed Wisdom in this passage seems to say that She was created by the Lord with a view to His works, and to accomplish His ways, yet proof is given in another Scripture that "all things were made by the Word, and without Him was there nothing made; "[68]
Tertullian Against Praxeas "by which all things were made,"[72]
Tertullian Against Praxeas "and without which nothing was made."[73]
Tertullian Against Praxeas
But all the rest of the created things did He in like manner make, who made the former ones-I mean the Word of God. "through whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made."[136]
Tertullian Against Praxeas
gives effect and form to what He sees. Thus all things were made by tile Son, and without Him was not anything made.[194]
Tertullian Against Praxeas
But (if we are to follow the heretics), the Gospel itself will have to be rejected, because it tells us that all things were made by God through the Word, without whom nothing was made.[228]
Tertullian Against Praxeas
,) Son Jesus Christ, that "our fellowship may be with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ."[399]
Origen de Principiis Book I
and the teaching of the Gospel, that "by Him were all things made, and without Him nothing was made; "[49]
Origen de Principiis Book IV
In conformity with which John also in his Gospel says: "All things were created by Him; and without Him was not anything made."[30]
Origen Against Celsus Book VI
John also, who lived after him, said, "That which was in the Logos was life, and the life was the light of men; "[21]
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V "For all things," he says, "were made by him, and not even one thing was made without him, and what was made in him is life."[74]
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V " In this way, he says, the Phrygians call him "Amygdalus," from which proceeded and was born the Invisible (One), "by whom all things were made, and nothing was made without Him."[121]
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
For "by Him were made all the works, and without Him was nothing made."[84]
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
And this, too, since it was not uttered without effect, reasonably makes all things: "For all things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made."[107]
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
What if Moses pursues this same rule of truth, and delivers to us in the beginning of his sacred writings, this principle by which we may learn that all things were created and rounded by the Son of God, that is, by the Word of God? For He says the same that John and the rest say; nay, both John and the others are perceived to have received from Him what they say. For if John says, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was nothing made,"[123]
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
Now who is it who says that He can lay down His life, or can Himself recover His life again, because He has received it of His Father? Or who says that He can again resuscitate and rebuild the destroyed temple of His body, except because He is the Word who is from the Father, who is with the Father, "by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made; "[168]
Alexander Epistles on the Arian Heresy
and, "by Him were all things made,"[50]
Origen Commentary on John Book I
And there is no wonder, since, as we have said before, the Saviour is many good things, if He comprises in Himself thoughts of the first order, and of the second, and of the third. This is what John suggested when he said about the Word:[85]
Origen Commentary on John Book I
He is the true light, and the light of the Gentiles. In the opening of the Gospel now before us He is the light of men: "That which was made,"[120]
Origen Commentary on John Book II " The "through[20]