The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325 Volume I - the Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and IrenaeusAlexander Roberts Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M05 1 - 616 pages "One of the first great events in Christian history was the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened to organize Christian sects and beliefs into a unified doctrine. The great Christian clergymen who wrote before this famous event are referred to as the Ante-Nicenes and the Apostolic Fathers, and their writings are collected here in a ten-volume set. The Ante-Nicenes lived so close to the time of Christ that their interpretations of the New Testament are considered more authentic than modern voices. But they are also real and flawed men, who are more like their fellow Christians than they are like the Apostles, making their words echo in the ears of spiritual seekers. In Volume I of the 10-volume collected works of the Ante-Nicenes first published between 1885 and 1896, readers will find the writings of: Clement of Rome, the fourth pope, who was supposedly martyred by being tied to an anchor and tossed overboard Mathetes, an anonymous writer considered the first Christian apologist Polycarp, a Christian bishop who was stabbed to death after he failed to burn at the stake Ignatius, a student of John the Apostle, who was Bishop of Antioch before he was killed Barnabas, an anonymous writer given the name of Saint Barnabas Papias, author of Interpretations of the Sayings of the Lord, a textbook on quotes from Jesus Justin Martyr, a Christian apologist and accomplished philosopher, and Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, apologist, and bishop of Lugdunum." |
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... behold, I was conceived in transgressions, and in my sins did my mother conceive me. For, behold, Thou hast loved truth ; the secret and hidden things of wisdom hast Thou shown me. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and 1 shall be ...
... behold, I was conceived in transgressions, and in my sins did my mother conceive me. For, behold, Thou hast loved truth ; the secret and hidden things of wisdom hast Thou shown me. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, and 1 shall be ...
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... behold, we have grown old, and none of them has happened unto us." >° Ye foolish ones ! compare yourselves to a tree : take [for instance] the vine. First of all, it sheds its leaves, then it buds, next it puts forth leaves, and then it ...
... behold, we have grown old, and none of them has happened unto us." >° Ye foolish ones ! compare yourselves to a tree : take [for instance] the vine. First of all, it sheds its leaves, then it buds, next it puts forth leaves, and then it ...
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... behold the fruits [of the earth], how the j sowing of grain takes place. The sower • goes ! forth, and casts it into the ground j and the seed ' being thus scattered, though dry and naked when it fell upon the earth, is gradually ...
... behold the fruits [of the earth], how the j sowing of grain takes place. The sower • goes ! forth, and casts it into the ground j and the seed ' being thus scattered, though dry and naked when it fell upon the earth, is gradually ...
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... Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work." 5 He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this,6 that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work. Let our ...
... Behold, the Lord [cometh], and His reward is before His face, to render to every man according to his work." 5 He exhorts us, therefore, with our whole heart to attend to this,6 that we be not lazy or slothful in any good work. Let our ...
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... behold, it is a stiff-necked people : let Me destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven ; and I will make thee a great and wonderful nation, and one much more numerous than this." " But Moses said, " Far be it from Thee ...
... behold, it is a stiff-necked people : let Me destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven ; and I will make thee a great and wonderful nation, and one much more numerous than this." " But Moses said, " Far be it from Thee ...
Contents
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BARNABAS Epistle | 133 |
PAPIAS Fragments | 151 |
JUSTIN MARTYR The First Apology | 159 |
IRENiEUS Against Heresies | 309 |
Fragments | 568 |
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Page 442 - Then opened h'e their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures ; and said unto them ; Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Page 431 - Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole, be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone, which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven...
Page 200 - Incline your ear, and come unto me : hear, and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Page 485 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Page 262 - Satan: for it is written, Thou shall worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou serve.
Page 266 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil ; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
Page 431 - Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Page 207 - I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, And will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, And give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles...
Page 392 - Then said the Jews unto him ; Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham ? Jesus said unto them ; Verily, verily, I say unto you ; Before Abraham was, I am.