NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Matthew 7:13

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

For they have heard in the commandment that "the broad and wide way leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in by it."[40]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book II

But who, when so many incentives to evil were assailing him, would desire that good, which he could despise with impunity? Who, again, would take care of what he could lose without danger? You read bow broad is the road to evil,[170]

Tertullian On Fasting

More easily, it may be, through the "strait gate"[123]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

On account of this, he says, Jesus uses the words, "I am the true gate."[88]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

Concerning these, it is said, the Saviour has expressly declared that "straight and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there are that enter upon it; whereas broad and spacious is the way that leadeth unto destruction, and many there are that pass through it."[120]

Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments "And they went out at privy doors; "showing thus by anticipation, that he who desires to partake of the water in the garden must renounce the broad gate, and enter by the strait and narrow.[215]

Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

On this same subject, according to Matthew: "How broad and spacious is the way which leadeth unto death, and many there are who go in thereby: how straight and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it!"[412]

Didache

one of life and one of death;[3]

Clementine Homily XVIII

`Behold, I have set before thy face the way of life and the way of death.' And the Teacher spoke in harmony with this:[26]

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Matthew 7:13

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