Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Et rursus (nunquam enim quovis modo juvando defatigatur) non veretur veluti concludere: "Lex enim spiritus liberavit me a lege peccati et morris: "quoniam "per Filium Dens condemnavit peccaturn in carne, ut justificatio legis impleatur in nobis, qui non secun... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III looking forward to the time when he shall become like Him who died for him, for He, too, "was made in the likeness of sinful flesh,"[384] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V If the Father "sent His Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,"[646] Tertullian Against Mar... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul and men on its account are censured as carnal,[269] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V , while explaining in what sense he would not have us "live in the flesh," although in the flesh-even by not living in the works of the flesh[660] Tertullian On Exhortation to... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Animal men, again, are instructed in animal things; such men, namely, as are established by their works, and by a mere faith, while they have not perfect knowledge. We of the Church, they say, are these persons.[82] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh But... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV And whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified."[68] Origen de Principiis Book III And if we were to assert that the good God created anything in His own creation t... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V In other passages also he is accustomed to put the natural condition instead of the works that are done therein, as when he says, that "they who are in the flesh cannot please God."[475] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh although he affirms that "they w... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V "For ye," he declares, "are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you."[49] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And again he declares, "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, because of His Spirit dwelling in you."[76] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quando enim sanctificatum fue... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians But He who raised Him up from the dead will raise[14] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III for, as himself foreseeing, through the Spirit, the subdivisions of evil teachers [with regard to the Lord's person], and being desirous of cutting away from them all oc... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Treatise X On Jealousy and Envy t with spiritual vigour, lest, while we are turned back again to the conversation of the old man, we be entangled in deadly snares, even as the apostle, with foresight and wholesomeness, forewarned us of this very thing, and said: "Therefore, brethren, let us... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And again he says, in the Epistle to the Romans, "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die."[77] Origen Against Celsus Book V and we use every effort to "mortify the deeds of the flesh."[170] Origen Against Celsus Book VII It is certain also that a Christian... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book IV But we pray that the light of the knowledge of the glory of God may shine in our hearts, and that the Spirit of God may dwell in our imaginations, and lead them to contemplate the things of God; for "as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."[3... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV neither do we receive another Holy Spirit, besides Him who is with us, and who cries, "Abba, Father; "[113] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For those to whom he was writing were not without flesh, but they were those who had received the Spirit of God, "by which... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Epistle LV Moreover, the blessed Apostle Paul exhorts and teaches, saying, "We are God's children; but if children, then heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together."[6] Cyprian Epistle LXXX "We are," says he, "the son... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans And why have I also surrendered myself to death, to fire, to the sword, to the wild beasts? But, [in fact,] he who is near to the sword is near to God; he that is among the wild beasts is in company with God; provided only he be so m the name of Jesus Christ. I... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to Mary at Neapolis May I enjoy the torments which are prepared for me, seeing that "the sufferings of this present time are not worthy [to be compared] with the glory which shall be revealed in us."[4] Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Even the apostle ought not to... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For the creature has been subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope; since the creature itself shall also be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God."[273] Tertullian A... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Hermogenes from evil, which had been "made subject to vanity; "[113] Origen de Principiis Book I The following is the statement of the Apostle Paul: "The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who subjected the same in hope, because the creatur... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V The apostle, too, has confessed that the creation shall be free from the bondage of corruption, [so as to pass] into the liberty of the sons of God.[345] Tertullian Against Hermogenes shall have "delivered the creature"[112] Origen de Principiis Book III because... [ Continue Reading ]
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fourth " "Those," he said, "which are budding are the righteous who are to live in the world to come; for the coming world is the summer[1] Theophilus to Autolycus Book II ], not as if they had been made evil or venomous from the first-for nothing was made evil by God... [ Continue Reading ]
Five Books in Reply to Marcion A pledge;[108]... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Treatise IX On the Advantage of Patience For we are not following after present glory, but future, according to what Paul the apostle also warns us, and says, "We are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for? But if we hope for that which... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII If he but form the thought in the secret chamber of his soul, and call on the Father "with unspoken groanings,"[72] Tertullian On Monogamy Herein also you ought to recognise the Paraclete in His character of Comforter, in that He excuses your infirmity[21]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III "For if God foreknew those who are called, according to His purpose, to be conformed to the image of His Son," for whose sake, according to the blessed apostle, He has appointed "Him to be the first-born among many brethren,"[35]... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Barnabas but according as the Spirit had prepared them.[260] Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas Jesus Most High, voice arising from perfect compassion, Saviour of all, the right hand of the light overthrowing him that is wicked in his own kind, and bringing all his kind into one place; Th... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Commentary on John Book II " If it did not overtake it, it must first have pursued it, and that the darkness did pursue the light is clear from what the Saviour suffered, and those also who received His teachings, His own children, when darkness was doing what it could against the sons of lig... [ Continue Reading ]
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians Now I write these things unto you, not that I know there are any such persons among you; nay, indeed I hope that God will never permit any such report to reach my ears, He "who spared not His Son for the sake of His holy Church."[51] Tertullian Against Praxeas... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III He declares in the plainest manner, that the same Being who was laid hold of, and underwent suffering, and shed His blood for us, was both Christ and the Son of God, who did also rise again, and was taken up into heaven, as he himself [Paul] says: "But at the same... [ Continue Reading ]
Fragments of Clement Found in the Oxford Edition Let us obtain the joy laid up, in which Paul exulting, exclaimed, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? "[19] Tertullian Scorpiace For we are persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor power, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creatur... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II And the time thus referred to is not called "a year" only, but is also named "a day" both by the prophet and by Paul, of whom the apostle, calling to mind the Scripture, says in the Epistle addressed to the Romans, "As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen Against Celsus Book I should feel elated because afflictions, or those other causes enumerated by Paul, do not separate us (from Christ); but not that Paul and the other apostles, and any other resembling them, (should entertain that feeling), because they were far exalted above such things... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "Creature" is synonymous with activity, being our work, and such activity "shall not be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."[132] Origen de Principiis Book III On account, then, of this power, which certainly is not of... [ Continue Reading ]