| 1. Tertullian, On Flight In Persecution, 9.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 |
2. Theophilus, To Autolycus, 1.11 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 | 1.11. Wherefore I will rather honour the king [than your gods], not, indeed, worshipping him, but praying for him. But God, the living and true God, I worship, knowing that the king is made by Him. You will say, then, to me, Why do you not worship the king? Because he is not made to be worshipped, but to be reverenced with lawful honour, for he is not a god, but a man appointed by God, not to be worshipped, but to judge justly. For in a kind of way his government is committed to him by God: as He will not have those called kings whom He has appointed under Himself; for king is his title, and it is not lawful for another to use it; so neither is it lawful for any to be worshipped but God only. Wherefore, O man, you are wholly in error. Accordingly, honour the king, be subject to him, and pray for him with loyal mind; for if you do this, you do the will of God. For the law that is of God, says, My son, fear the Lord and the king, and be not disobedient to them; for suddenly they shall take vengeance on their enemies. |
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3. Athenagoras, Apology Or Embassy For The Christians, 35 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 | 35. What man of sound mind, therefore, will affirm, while such is our character, that we are murderers? For we cannot eat human flesh till we have killed some one. The former charge, therefore, being false, if any one should ask them in regard to the second, whether they have seen what they assert, not one of them would be so barefaced as to say that he had. And yet we have slaves, some more and some fewer, by whom we could not help being seen; but even of these, not one has been found to invent even such things against us. For when they know that we cannot endure even to see a man put to death, though justly; who of them can accuse us of murder or cannibalism? Who does not reckon among the things of greatest interest the contests of gladiators and wild beasts, especially those which are given by you? But we, deeming that to see a man put to death is much the same as killing him, have abjured such spectacles. How, then, when we do not even look on, lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death? And when we say that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit murder, and will have to give an account to God for the abortion, on what principle should we commit murder? For it does not belong to the same person to regard the very fœtus in the womb as a created being, and therefore an object of God's care, and when it has passed into life, to kill it; and not to expose an infant, because those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it. But we are in all things always alike and the same, submitting ourselves to reason, and not ruling over it. |
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| 4. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 72.27-72.28 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 |
| 5. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 5.6.18-5.6.19 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 |
| 6. Epiphanius, Panarion, 49.1 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 |
| 7. Historia Augusta, M. Ant., 13.6 Tagged with subjects: •melito of sardis, christian bishop Found in books: Rizzi (2010) 134 |
