Matthew 15:1
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI "[67]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI "[67]... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV return to the place from which he had been cast out, confessing one God, the Father, the Creator, and believing [in Him] who was declared by the law and the prophets, who was borne witness to by Christ, as He did Himself declare to those who were accusing His disci... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Epistle LXXII If the name of father, which in man is commanded to be honoured, is violated with impunity in God, what will become of what Christ Himself lays down in the Gospel, and says, "He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death; "[30] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI ? But, perhaps, when any one said to his father or his mother, "It is a gift, that wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me,"[87]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on John Book VI "If ye believed Moses, ye would believe Me," and[79]... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Clement For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, "This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me."[59] Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Twelfth and subjected all creation to him, and gave him power to rule over everything under heaven? If, then, man is lord of the c... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI And now, especially, from the time at which they denied our Saviour, it might be said about them by God, "But in vain do they worship Me; "[92]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Prayer from idolatry, and all the other blemishes which, conceived by the spirit, are effected by the operation of the hands. These are the true purities;[84] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI " etc.[96] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI And as in many cases we have to consid... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "For it is not that which entereth in that defileth a man, but that which goeth out of his mouth."[21] Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II The use of them is accordingly indifferent to us. "For not what entereth into the mouth defileth the man,... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians These men are not the planting of the Father, but are an accursed brood. And says the Lord, "Let every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted be rooted up."[85] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics and "the plant which (my heavenly Father) hath... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I For, wandering in life as in deep darkness, we need a guide that cannot stumble or stray; and our guide is the best, not blind, as the Scripture says, "leading the blind into pits."[13] Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics You therefore, who see... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI To which the Saviour says, "Are ye also, even yet, without understanding? "[129]... [ Continue Reading ]
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus And if he saw her eating, it is manifest that she was partaker of a body subject to corruption. "For everything going in at the mouth, is cast out into the draught."[22] Novation On the Jewish Meats God is not worshipped by the belly nor by meats, whic... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II From filthy speaking we ourselves must entirely abstain, and stop the mouths of those who practise it by stern looks and averting the face, and by what we call making a mock of one: often also by a harsher mode of speech. "For what proceedeth out of the... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book VII To see God belongs to the pure heart, out of which no longer proceed "evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies, the evil eye,"[71]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI "[151]... [ Continue Reading ]
Dialogue of Justin son.[533] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI -that is, the distress of the Gentiles,-in order that they also from these borders who believe can be saved, when they come out of them; for attend to this: "And behold a Canaanitish woman came out from these borders and cried sayi... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Likewise, again, the disciples who conceive nothing great about the Canaanitish woman say, "Send her away, for she crieth after us; "[215]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics Therefore it was to Israel that he spake when He said, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."[95] Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV " Marcion must even expunge from the Gospel, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Now, the Canaanitish woman, having come, worshipped Jesus as God, saying, "Lord, help me," but He answered and said, "It is not possible to take the children's bread and cast it to the little dogs."[183]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV and, "It is not meet to take the children'sbread, and to cast it to dogs,"[173] Tertullian On Prayer from his children, and hand it to dogs? "[44] Pseudo-Cyprian On the Glory of Martyrdom For He says, "If you should gain the whole world, and lose your own soul... [ Continue Reading ]
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Second Homily For, discovering their own lowliness, and the hunger that pressed upon them for the knowledge of God, they pleaded for the divine word, though it were but for crumbs of the same, like the woman of Canaan;[36] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Only, he... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI But when she with intensified resolution, accepting the saying of Jesus, puts forth the claim to obtain crumbs even as a little dog, and acknowledges that the masters are of a nobler race, then she gets a second answer, which bears testimony to her faith as grea... [ Continue Reading ]
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Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI Those, accordingly, who are suffering in soul from such things, though they go up along with the multitudes into the mountain where Jesus was, so long as they are outside of the feet of Jesus, are not healed by Him; but when, as men suffering from such disorders... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI that is, they see and understand with care and clearness. Now the multitudes seeing these things, glorified the God of Israel,[195] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI but here He heals these, along with the multitudes, who were not sick but blind, and lame,... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI "[199] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI but here He speaks of His own accord about the four thousand.[202] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII Now there may sometimes be a time, when He is with us, that we are without food, as is spoken of in the passag... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI but here, as Matthew and Mark have written, "Jesus gave thanks and brake; "[207]... [ Continue Reading ]
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV but to others, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, which My Father has prepared for the devil and his angels,"[632]... [ Continue Reading ]