NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Philippians 3:20

Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus

They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.[22]

Shepherd of Hermas Similitude First

He says to me, "You know that you who are the servants of God dwell in a strange land; for your city is far away from this one.[2]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "For the world is crucified to me, and I to the world," the [apostle] says; "and now I live, though in the flesh, as having my conversation in heaven."[16]

Tertullian De Corona

But as for you, you are a foreigner in this world, a citizen of Jerusalem, the city above. Our citizenship, the apostle says, is in heaven.[54]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book III

, or citizenship, is in heaven,[357]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

, "such also are they that are earthy"-men again, of course; "therefore as is the heavenly," meaning the Man, from heaven, "such are the men also that are heavenly."[470]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

of any other than Him to whom the law belonged. "Our conversation," says he, "is in heaven."[925]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

from whence also we look for our Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body"[335]

Polycrates of Ephesus

his other daughter also, who passed her life[6]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

and, "Our citizenship is in heaven."[81]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

we say it as Peter, not by flesh and blood revealing it unto us, but by the light from the Father in heaven shining in our heart, we too become as Peter, being pronounced blessed as he was, because that the grounds on which he was pronounced blessed apply also to us, by reason of the fact that flesh and blood have not revealed to us with regard to Jesus that He is Christ, the Son of the living God, but the Father in heaven, from the very heavens, that our citizenship may be in heaven,[66]

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Philippians 3:20

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