Matthew 10:28

First Apology of Justin

and, "Fear not them that kill you, and after that can do no more; but fear Him who after death is able to cast both soul and body into hell."[43]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

For this purpose did He give them this exhortation: "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to send both soul and body into hell; "[346]

Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Twelfth

But as to the threats of the devil, fear them not at all, for he is powerless as the sinews of a dead man. Give ear to me, then, and fear Him who has all power, both to save and destroy,[18]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

But He also teaches us, that "He is rather to be feared, who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell," that is, the Lord alone; "not those which kill the body, but are not able to hurt the soul,"[229]

Tertullian On Modesty

striking down not the body only, but the souls too, into hell.[39]

Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione "Fear not them who are able to kill the body, but are unable to do ought against the soul; but fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell."[28]

Cyprian Epistle LV

He is to be feared whose anger no one can escape, as He Himself forewarns, and says: "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both body and soul in hell."[18]

Cyprian Epistle LXXX

And again: "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."[8]

Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus

Whence the Lord exhorts and strengthens us to contempt of death, saying: "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to kill soul and body in Gehenna."[40]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the same place: "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him which is able to kill the soul and body in Gehenna."[483]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

is man? For what if the divinity in Christ does not die, but the substance of the flesh only is destroyed, when in other men also, who are not flesh only, but flesh and soul, the flesh indeed alone suffers the inroads of wasting and death, while the soul is seen to be uncorrupted, and beyond the laws of destruction and death? For this also our Lord Himself said, exhorting us to martyrdom and to contempt of all human power: "Fear not those who slay the body, but cannot kill the soul."[193]

A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop

It is then He who must be revered by us; He must be held fast; He must be propitiated by our full and worthy confession, "who has the power of sending soul and body to the Gehenna of fire,"[67]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

If it is your intention to persecute me, I am prepared for it: and if you wish to involve me in punishment, I shall not shrink from it; yea, if you mean even to put me to death, I am not afraid: "For we ought to fear Him only who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."[562]

Genuine Acts of Peter of Alexandria

escended to the interior part of the prison, and according to the agreement made, made a sound on the wall; and those outside hearing this, forcing an aperture, received this athlete of Christ armed on all sides with no brazen breastplate, but with the virtue of the cross of the Lord, and fully prepared to carry out the Lord's words who said, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."[21]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

And afterwards: "Fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."[12]

2 Clement

the wolves; and in like manner, fear not ye them that kill you, and can do nothing more unto you; but fear Him who, after you are dead, has power over both soul and body to cast them into hell-fire."[40]

Clementine Homily XVII

For sometimes by other utterances, taken from the Scriptures, he presents God as being terrible and just, saying,[10]

Martyrdom Of the Holy Confessors

But we, listening to the words of Christ, will "not be afraid of those that kill the body but are not able to kill the soul: "Him rather will we fear "who is able to destroy our soul and body."[9]

2 Clement

the wolves; and in like manner, fear not ye them that kill you, and can do nothing more unto you; but fear Him who, after you are dead, has power over both soul and body to cast them into hell-fire."[30]