Luke 7:1
Tertullian On Idolatry albeit, likewise, a centurion had believed;[159] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV should confess that He had "found so great a faith not even in Israel."[655]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Idolatry albeit, likewise, a centurion had believed;[159] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV should confess that He had "found so great a faith not even in Israel."[655]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Baptism " Pray does the emperor in person set forth, or the prefect in person cudgel? One whose ministers do a thing is always said to do it.[114]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I They maintain that he is the centurion mentioned in the Gospel, who addressed the Saviour in these words: "For I also am one having soldiers and servants under my authority; and whatsoever I command they do."[94] Recognitions of Clement IV For as he who has soldie... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV having come to weaken and destroy it rather than to approve of it. He raised also the widow's son from death.[663]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V the widow's dead son, who was being carded out [to burial] near the gate [of the city];[96] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Further, observe, that the Canaanitish woman besought Him not about a son, whom she does not seem to have brought forth at all, but abo... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV The Creator's prophets had wrought such; then why not His Son much rather? Now, so evidently had the Lord Christ introduced no other god for the working of so momentous a miracle as this, that all who were present gave glory to the Creator, saying: "A great prophe... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Baptism whom he had pointed out when coming to him, were "HE."[106]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I The second, whose meaning is understood from the present times, as being apprehended by perception; as it was said to those who asked the Lord, "If He was the Christ, or shall we wait for another? Go and tell John, the blind receive their sight, the deaf... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV With this fear, therefore, even John asks the question, "Art thou He that should come, or look we for another? "[680]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV He was in doubt whether He was actually come whom all men were looking for; whom, moreover, they ought to have recognised by His predicted works, even as the Lord sent word to John, that it was by means of these very works that He was to be recognised.[685]... [ Continue Reading ]
Five Books in Reply to Marcion 145 August in life, and marked with praise sublime,[74]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Accordingly, deriding those who are clothed in luxurious garments, He says in the Gospel: "Lo, they who live in gorgeous apparel and luxury are in earthly palaces."[233] Tertullian On Idolatry unadorned in dress, for else He had not said, "Behold, they... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III John, therefore, having been sent by the founder and maker of this world, how could he testify of that Light, which came down from things unspeakable and invisible? For all the heretics have decided that the Demiurge was ignorant of that Power above him, whose wit... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews alled him an "angel," on account of the magnitude of the mighty deeds which he was to achieve (which mighty deeds Joshua the son of Nun did, and you yourselves read), and on account of his office of prophet announcing (to wit) the divine will; just as withal the Spi... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I To this child additional testimony is borne by John, "the greatest prophet among those born of women: "[47] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV indeed "greater than all of women born; "[691]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X And up to this point I think that the movements of the people of the Jews, which seem to be according to the law, were nothing else than the movements of the daughter of Herodias; but the dancing of Herodias was opposed to that holy dancing with which those who h... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Monogamy ); while that "man gluttonous and toping," the "frequenter of luncheons and suppers, in the company of publicans and sinners,"[74] Tertullian On Fasting while Himself withal was wont to eat and drink till He made Himself noted thus; "Behold, a gormandizer and a drinker: "[1... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Her name, too, was indicated by the Saviour, when He said, "Yet wisdom is justified by her children."[115]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV The behaviour of "the woman which was a sinner," when she covered the Lord's feet with her kisses, bathed them with her tears, wiped them with the hairs of her head, anointed them with ointment,[698] Origen Commentary on John Book I It ought not to be forgotten... [ Continue Reading ]
The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour And this is that jar which Mary the sinner bought and poured upon the head and feet of our Lord Jesus Christ, which thereafter she wiped with the hair of her head.[6] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII after this no longer playing the harlot, but... [ Continue Reading ]
A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop in the Gospel, where is described that woman who was a sinner, who came to the house of a certain Pharisee whither the Lord had been bidden with His disciples, and she brought a vessel of ointment, and stood at the Lord's feet, and wash... [ Continue Reading ]
Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments And the holy Gospel knows also the remission of the number fifty, and of that number which is cognate with it, and stands by it, viz., five hundred;[242]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III This, therefore, was the [object of the] long-suffering of God, that man, passing through all things, and acquiring the knowledge of moral discipline, then attaining to the resurrection from the dead, and learning by experience what is the source of his deliveranc... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II But the woman not having yet received the Word (for she was still a sinner), honoured the Lord with what she thought the most precious thing in her possession-the ointment; and with the ornament of her person, with her hair, she wiped off the superfluous... [ Continue Reading ]
A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer And this remission of sins that woman also which was a sinner in the city obtained, to whom the Lord said, "Thy sins are forgiven thee."[57]... [ Continue Reading ]
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments Let us therefore ponder this every day; let us meditate on this both day and night, both in the house, and by the way, and in the churches, that we may not stand forth at that dread and impartial judgment condemned, abased, and sad, but with purity of action, life, conv... [ Continue Reading ]