NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Matthew 22:37

Dialogue of Justin

They are these: `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy strength, and thy neighbour as thyself.'[366]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

but to us He has addressed the exhortation, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God."[126]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III

We may comprehend the commandments in two, as the Lord says, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy strength; and thy neighbour as thyself." Then from these He infers, "on this hang the law and the prophets."[177]

Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III " Especially conspicuous is the love of the Instructor set forth in various salutary commandments, in order that the discovery may be readier, from the abundance and arrangement of the Scriptures. We have the Decalogue[178]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book II

. It proposed one for the obedient man, the other for the transgressor.[175]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

the queen of His creation, the inheritor of His own liberality, the priestess of His religion, the champion of His testimony, the sister of His Christ! We know by experience the goodness of God; from His Christ we learn that He is the only God, and the very good. Now, as He requires from us love to our neighbour after love to Himself,[61]

Tertullian Scorpiace

and loving God, to wit, with all its strength (by which in the endurance of martyrdom it maintains the fight), with all its life[42]

Tertullian On Fasting

I must love God, and my neighbour as myself:[17]

Origen de Principiis Book II

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." And to these He added: "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."[42]

Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus

This is the first; and the second is like unto it, Thou shall love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."[21]

A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

Because by this deed he profits nothing who has not the love of that God and Christ who is announced by the law and the prophets and in the Gospel in this manner: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy mind, and with all thy thought; and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. For on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets; "[40]

Didache

who made thee; second, thy neighbour as thyself;[5]

2 Clement

But in what way shall we confess Him? By doing what He says, and not transgressing His commandments, and by honouring Him not with our lips only, but with all our heart and all our mind.[28]

2 Clement

But in what way shall we confess Him? By doing what He says, and not transgressing His commandments, and by honouring Him not with our lips only, but with all our heart and all our mind.[21]

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Matthew 22:37

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