| 1. Polycarp of Smyrna, Letter To The Philippians, 37 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232 |
2. Anon., Didache, 12, 11 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 | 11. Whosoever, therefore, comes and teaches you all these things that have been said before, receive him. But if the teacher himself turn and teach another doctrine to the destruction of this, hear him not; but if he teach so as to increase righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord. But concerning the apostles and prophets, according to the decree of the Gospel, thus do. Let every apostle that comes to you be received as the Lord. But he shall not remain except one day; but if there be need, also the next; but if he remain three days, he is a false prophet. And when the apostle goes away, let him take nothing but bread until he lodges; but if he ask money, he is a false prophet. And every prophet that speaks in the Spirit you shall neither try nor judge; for every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven. But not every one that speaks in the Spirit is a prophet; but only if he hold the ways of the Lord. Therefore from their ways shall the false prophet and the prophet be known. And every prophet who orders a meal in the Spirit eats not from it, except indeed he be a false prophet; and every prophet who teaches the truth, if he do not what he teaches, is a false prophet. And every prophet, proved true, working unto the mystery of the Church in the world, yet not teaching others to do what he himself does, shall not be judged among you, for with God he has his judgment; for so did also the ancient prophets. But whoever says in the Spirit, Give me money, or something else, you shall not listen to him; but if he says to you to give for others' sake who are in need, let no one judge him. |
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3. Ignatius, To The Trallians, 7.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232 | 7.2. He that is within the sanctuary is clean; but he that is without the sanctuary is not clean, that is, he that doeth aught without the bishop and presbytery and deacons, this man is not clean in his conscience. |
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4. Ignatius, To The Magnesians, 7.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232 | 7.2. Hasten to come together all of you, as to one temple, even God; as to one altar, even to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from One Father and is with One and departed unto One. |
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5. Ignatius, To The Ephesians, 5.2, 7.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232 | 5.2. Let no man be deceived. If any one be not within the precinct of the altar, he lacketh the bread [of God]. For, if the prayer of one and another hath so great force, how much more that of the bishop and of the whole Church. 7.2. There is one only physician, of flesh and of spirit, generate and ingenerate, God in man, true Life in death, Son of Mary and Son of God, first passible and then impassible, Jesus Christ our Lord. |
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6. Clement of Rome, 1 Clement, 10.1, 47.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232| 10.1. Ἀβραάμ, ὁ φίλος προσαγορευθείς, πιστὸς εὑρέθη ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν ὑπήκοον γενέσθαι τοῖς ῥήμασιν τοῦ θεοῦ. 47.6. αἰσχρά, ἀγαπητοί, καὶ λίαν αἰσχρά, καὶ ἀνάξια τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ ἀγωγῆς ἀκούεσθαι, τὴν βεβαιοτάτην καὶ ἀρχαίαν Κορινθίων ἐκκλησίαν δἰ ἓν ἢ δύο πρόσωπα στασιάζειν πρὸς τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους: | |
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7. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 5.10, 6.1-6.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232| 5.10. οὐ πάντως τοῖς πόρνοις τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἢ τοῖς πλεονέκταις καὶ ἅρπαξιν ἢ εἰδωλολάτραις, ἐπεὶ ὠφείλετε ἄρα ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου ἐξελθεῖν. 6.1. Τολμᾷ τις ὑμῶν πρᾶγμα ἔχων πρὸς τὸν ἕτερον κρίνεσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ἀδίκων, καὶ οὐχὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἁγίων; 6.2. ἢ οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι οἱ ἅγιοι τὸν κόσμον κρινοῦσιν; καὶ εἰ ἐν ὑμῖν κρίνεται ὁ κόσμος, ἀνάξιοί ἐστε κριτηρίων ἐλαχίστων; | 5.10. yet not at all meaning with the sexual sinners of this world, orwith the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then youwould have to leave the world. 6.1. Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go tolaw before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? 6.2. Don't youknow that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judgedby you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? |
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| 8. Hermas, Similitudes, 1.1-1.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 |
9. Tertullian, To The Martyrs, 2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 | 2. Other things, hindrances equally of the soul, may have accompanied you as far as the prison gate, to which also your relatives may have attended you. There and thenceforth you were severed from the world; how much more from the ordinary course of worldly life and all its affairs! Nor let this separation from the world alarm you; for if we reflect that the world is more really the prison, we shall see that you have gone out of a prison rather than into one. The world has the greater darkness, blinding men's hearts. The world imposes the more grievous fetters, binding men's very souls. The world breathes out the worst impurities - human lusts. The world contains the larger number of criminals, even the whole human race. Then, last of all, it awaits the judgment, not of the proconsul, but of God. Wherefore, O blessed, you may regard yourselves as having been translated from a prison to, we may say, a place of safety. It is full of darkness, but you yourselves are light; it has bonds, but God has made you free. Unpleasant exhalations are there, but you are an odour of sweetness. The judge is daily looked for, but you shall judge the judges themselves. Sadness may be there for him who sighs for the world's enjoyments. The Christian outside the prison has renounced the world, but in the prison he has renounced a prison too. It is of no consequence where you are in the world - you who are not of it. And if you have lost some of life's sweets, it is the way of business to suffer present loss, that after gains may be the larger. Thus far I say nothing of the rewards to which God invites the martyrs. Meanwhile let us compare the life of the world and of the prison, and see if the spirit does not gain more in the prison than the flesh loses. Nay, by the care of the Church and the love of the brethren, even the flesh does not lose there what is for its good, while the spirit obtains besides important advantages. You have no occasion to look on strange gods, you do not run against their images; you have no part in heathen holidays, even by mere bodily mingling in them; you are not annoyed by the foul fumes of idolatrous solemnities; you are not pained by the noise of the public shows, nor by the atrocity or madness or immodesty of their celebrants; your eyes do not fall on stews and brothels; you are free from causes of offense, from temptations, from unholy reminiscences; you are free now from persecution too. The prison does the same service for the Christian which the desert did for the prophet. Our Lord Himself spent much of His time in seclusion, that He might have greater liberty to pray, that He might be quit of the world. It was in a mountain solitude, too, He showed His glory to the disciples. Let us drop the name of prison; let us call it a place of retirement. Though the body is shut in, though the flesh is confined, all things are open to the spirit. In spirit, then, roam abroad; in spirit walk about, not setting before you shady paths or long colonnades, but the way which leads to God. As often as in spirit your footsteps are there, so often you will not be in bonds. The leg does not feel the chain when the mind is in the heavens. The mind compasses the whole man about, and whither it wills it carries him. But where your heart shall be, there shall be your treasure. Matthew 6:21 Be there our heart, then, where we would have our treasure. |
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| 10. Clement of Alexandria, Christ The Educator, 3.8.41 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 |
| 11. Aristides of Athens, Apology, 16.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 235 |
12. Tertullian, Apology, 18.4, 37.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 235| 18.4. 37.4. reliquimus templa.1 Cui bello non idonei, non prompti fuissemus, etiam inpares copiis, qui tam libenter trucidamur, si non apud istam disciplinam magis occidi liceret quam occidere? | |
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| 13. Tertullian, Against The Jews, 7.4-7.9 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 235 |
| 14. Anon., Marytrdom of Polycarp, 1.1 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 232 |
| 15. Nag Hammadi, The Gospel of Thomas, 42, 21 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 |
| 16. Anon., Letter From Vienna And Lyons, 15.1.5 Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 |
| 17. Anon., Epistle To Diognetus, 5.4-5.5, 5.9, 6.2-6.3 Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 235 |
| 18. Anon., 6 Ezra, 16.40-16.42 Tagged with subjects: •circumcision, of heaven Found in books: Lieu (2004) 236 |
