early_church_fathers@1Clement:22:1 <1CLEMENT>@ Now all these things the faith which is in Christ confirmeth: for He Himself through the Holy Spirit thus invite thus: ...Me, I will teach you the ...
early_church_fathers@Barnabas:11:8 @ Ye perceive how He pointed out the water and the cross at the same time. For this is the meaning; Blessed are they that set their hope on the cross, and go down into the water; for He speaketh of the reward at his proper season; then, saith He, I will repay. But now what saith He? His leaves shall not fall off...forth from you through your mouth ...
early_church_fathers@Didache:1:3 @ Now of these words the doctrine is this. Bless them that curse you, and pray for your enemies and fast for ...love them that hate you that ... and ye shall not have an enemy.
early_church_fathers@Diognetus:4:1 @ But again their scruples concerning meats, and their superstition relating to the Sabbath and the vanity of their circumcision and the dissimulation of their fasting and new moons, I do [not] suppose you need to learn from me, are ridiculous and unworthy of any consideration.
early_church_fathers@Hermas:16:9 @ Then I asked her concerning the seasons, whether the consummation is even now. But she cried aloud, saying, "Foolish man, seest thou not that the tower is still a-...is the renewal of your spirits. ...
early_church_fathers@IgnatiusEphesians:12:2 @ Ye are the high-road of those that are on their way to die unto God. Ye are associates in the mysteries with Paul, who was sanctified, who obtained a good report, who is worthy of all felicitation; in whose foot-...letter maketh mention of you in ...
early_church_fathers@IgnatiusRomans:2:1 @...I would not have you to ...-pleasers but to please God, as indeed ye do please Him. For neither shall I myself ever find an opportunity such as this to attain unto God, nor can ye, if ye be silent, win the credit of any nobler work. For, if ye be silent and leave me alone, I am a word of God; but if ye desire my flesh, then shall I be again a mere cry.
early_church_fathers@IgnatiusRomans:7:2 @...with you, should beseech you, obey ...[For] I write to you in the midst of life, yet lusting after death. My lust hath been crucified, and there is no fire of material longing in me, but only water living and speaking in me, saying within me, Come to the Father.
early_church_fathers@IgnatiusSmyrneans:4:1 @...you betimes to protect you from ...--men whom not only should ye not receive, but, if it were possible, not so much as meet [them]; only pray ye for them, if haply they may repent. This indeed is difficult, but Jesus Christ, our true life, hath power over it.
early_church_fathers@Polycarp:1:1 ...I rejoiced with you greatly ...--those men encircled in saintly bonds which are the diadems of them that be truly chosen of God and our Lord;
early_church_fathers@Polycarp:2:3 @ but remembering the words which the Lord spake, as He taught; ...shall be forgiven to you. Have ... and again Blessed are the poor and they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.
early_church_fathers@Polycarp:11:3 @...any such thing in you, neither ...letters in the beginning. For he boasteth of you in all those churches which alone at that time knew God; for we knew Him not as yet.
early_church_fathers@Polycarp:12:2 @ Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal High-priest Himself the [...and to us with you, and ...that raised him from the dead.