Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith And again: "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost."[49] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing... [ Continue Reading ]
Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews Also Paul to the Romans: "I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren and my kindred according to the flesh: who are Israel-ires: whose are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenant, and the appointment of... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On Modesty For although the Jew withal be called "a son," and an "elder one," inasmuch as he had priority in adoption;[89]... [ Continue Reading ]
1 Clement have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also [was descended] our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.[131] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again, writing to the Romans about Israel, he says: "Whose are the fathers, and from whom... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV from the Word, "that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth, it was said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people are in thy body; and the one people shall overcome the other, and the eider... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen de Principiis Book II But even holy Scripture does not appear to me to be altogether silent on the nature of this secret, as when the Apostle Paul, in discussing the case of Jacob and Esau, says: "For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Our God, one and the same, is also their God, who knows hidden things, who knoweth all things before they can come to pass; and for this reason has He said, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated."[320]... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "For there is no unrighteousness with God,"[256] Origen de Principiis Book I How could his soul and its images be formed along with his body, who, before he was created in the womb, is said to be known to God, and was sanctified by Him before his birth? Some,... [ Continue Reading ]
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV "For I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,"[39]... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen de Principiis Book III The words, moreover, used by the Apostle Paul, that "it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy; "[67] Origen de Principiis Book III The passage also in Paul: "It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of G... [ Continue Reading ]
Origen de Principiis Book III Thou wilt say then unto me, Why cloth He yet find fault? For who shall resist His will? O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him who hath formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh In the same way the potter, too, has it in his power, by tempering the blast of his fire, to modify his clayey material into a stiffer one, and to mould one form after another more beautiful than the original substance, and now possessing both a kind and... [ Continue Reading ]
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I and proclaim in what sense [God] says, "`That is a people who was not a people; and she is beloved who was not beloved; "[142] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III and Him who, by His Son Christ Jesus, has called us to the knowledge of Himself, from the worship of s... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV to a compendious formula, because (as it was predicted in another passage) the Lord-that is, Christ" was to make (or utter) a concise word on earth."[610]... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews of the passion itself should be figuratively set forth in predictions; and the more incredible (that mystery), the more likely to be "a stumbling-stone,"[199] Tertullian An Answer to the Jews and knowing how to bear infirmity: "to wit as having been set by the Fat... [ Continue Reading ]
Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV Was it because Christ was both a rock and a stone? For we read of His being placed "for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence."[445]... [ Continue Reading ]