NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Luke 12:49

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

for me to obey, but Him who remunerates? Your Christ proclaims, "I am come to send fire on the earth."[1202]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

For he said: If the God of the Old Testament, according to your allegation, calls Himself a fire, I whose son is He who says, "I am come to send fire upon the earth? "[707]

Methodius Discourse VI. Agathe

For the flesh is truly, as it were, our five-lighted lamp, which the soul will bear like a torch, when it stands before Christ the Bridegroom, on the day of the resurrection, showing her faith springing out clear and bright through all the senses, as He Himself taught, saying,[7]

Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

wicked demons who once fell from light; but when the Creator and Framer of all things had, as the most divine Paul says, laid hold of the seed of Abraham, and through him of the whole human race, He was made man for ever, and without change, in order that by His fellowship with us, and our joining on to Him, the ingress of sin into us might be stopped, its strength being broken by degrees, and itself as wax being melted, by that fire which the Lord, when He came, sent upon the earth.[115]

Excerpts of Theodotus

Respecting such a power, also, the Saviour says, "I came to send fire upon the earth,"[45]

Recognitions of Clement VI

On this account, therefore, He said, `I have come to send fire on the earth; and how I wish that it were kindled!'[5]

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Luke 12:49

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