Mark 2:5
Tertullian On Baptism and, "Thy sins shall be remitted thee,"[131]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Baptism and, "Thy sins shall be remitted thee,"[131]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty Who, moreover, was able to forgive sins? This is His alone prerogative: for "who remitteth sins but God alone? "[267]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV of our heretic. Now, that the very Lord Himself of all might, the Word and Spirit of the Father,[671] Tertullian On Baptism But if repentance is a thing human, its baptism must necessarily be of the same nature: else, if it had been celestial, it would have give... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty For thus it was that the Lord Jesus Christ showed His power: "Why think ye evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say to the paralytic, Thy sins are remitted thee; or, Rise and walk? Therefore, that ye may know the Son of man to have the power upon earth of remitting sin... [ Continue Reading ]
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna and it has seemed good to Thee, by means of our Lord and Creator, to fashion us again unto immortality; and Thou hast graciously given unto us a return to Paradise by means of Him who separated us from the joys of Paradise; and by means of Him who hath p... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I " But the good Instructor, the Wisdom, the Word of the Father, who made man, cares for the whole nature of His creature; the all-sufficient Physician of humanity, the Saviour, heals both body and soul. "Rise up," He said to the paralytic; "take the bed on... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Idolatry while Matthew is roused up from the toll-booth;[89]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty name,-a (name) of such as put up the pathways of the very sky, and earth, and sea, for sale. Moreover, when (the writer) adjoins "sinners" to "publicans,"[101]... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Barnabas But when He chose His own apostles who where to preach His Gospel, [He did so from among those] who were sinners above all sin, that He might show He came "not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."[41] Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection And i... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Fasting At all events, in the Gospel they think that those days were definitely appointed for fasts in which "the Bridegroom was taken away; "[5]... [ Continue Reading ]
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes And the Lord Jesus Christ Himself gave His testimony to what we affirm, when He said with His heavenly voice, "Can ye make the children of the bride-chamber fast so long as the bridegroom is with them? "[477]... [ Continue Reading ]
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V Do ye who are able fast the day of the preparation and the Sabbath-day entirely, tasting nothing till the cock-crowing of the night; but if any one is not able to join them both together, at least let him observe the Sabbath-day; for the Lord says somewhere... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Prayer -has determined for us, the disciples of the New Testament, a new form of prayer; for in this particular also it was needful that new wine should be laid up in new skins, and a new breadth be sewn to a new garment.[3]... [ Continue Reading ]