Luke 12:35

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV "Let your loins, therefore, be girded about, and your lights burning, and ye like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding."[566]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

And, "Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning, and ye like unto men that wait for their Lord, when He returns from the wedding, that when He cometh and knocketh, they may open to Him. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when He cometh, shall find so doing."[601]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II

For it is said, "Let your loins be girt about, and your lamps burning; and ye yourselves like to men that watch for their lord, that when he returns from the marriage, and comes and knocks, they may straightway open to him. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching."[179]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

We are servants because we have a Lord in our God. We ought "to have our loins girded: "[1186]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

in other words, we are to be free from the embarrassments of a perplexed and much occupied life; "to have our lights burning,"[1187]

Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church

and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when He shall come from the wedding, that when He cometh and knocketh, they may open to Him. Blessed are those servants whom their Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching."[73]

Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus

Moreover, forewarning us that we ought always to be ready, and to stand firmly equipped and armed, He adds, and says: "Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord when he shall return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh they may open unto him. Blessed are those servants whom their lord, when he cometh, shall find watching."[57]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also according to Luke: "Let your loins be girt, and your lamps burning, and ye like to men that wait for their master when he shall come from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him. Blessed are those servants whom their Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching."[250]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Concerning this same thing, according to Luke: "Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning; and ye like unto men that wait for their lord, when he cometh from the wedding; that, when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him. Blessed are those servants, whom their lord, when he cometh, shall find watching."[438]

Methodius Discourse V. Thallousa

Blessed are ye, when he shall make you sit down, and shall come and serve you. And if he come in the second, or in the third watch, ye are blessed."[6]

Didache

Let not your lamps be quenched, nor your loins unloosed;[137]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

For He will gird Himself, and will make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them."[129]

The Second Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

Therefore, let us not be constantly with women, nor with maidens. For this is not profitable for those who truly wish to "gird up their loins."[41]