Ante-Nicene Fathers • VOLUME 5
Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian
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30. Therefore, beloved brethren, although this is altogether of the Lord's promise and gift, and although it is given from on high, and is n
30. Therefore, beloved brethren, although this is altogether of the Lord's promise and gift, and although it is given from on high, and is not received except by His will, and moreover, can neither be expressed in words nor described by speech, nor can be satisfied by any kind of powers of eloquence, still such will be your bene…
2,371 wordsSECTION 3226. Christ gave this judgment when, being inquired of, He said that a wife must not be put away, save for the cause of adultery; such honour
6. Christ gave this judgment when, being inquired of, He said that a wife must not be put away, save for the cause of adultery; such honour did He put upon chastity. Hence arose the decree: "Ye shall not suffer adulteresses to live." [4877] Hence the apostle says: "This is the will of God, that ye abstain from fornication." [487…
2,325 wordsSECTION 32314. It must be said, moreover, that adultery is not pleasure, but mutual contempt; nor can it delight, because it kills both the soul and mo
14. It must be said, moreover, that adultery is not pleasure, but mutual contempt; nor can it delight, because it kills both the soul and modesty. Let the soul restrain the provocations of the flesh; let it bridle the impulses of the body. For it has received this power, that the limbs should be subservient to its command; and a…
2,205 wordsSECTION 324Also in Micah: "Alas for me, O my soul, because truth has perished from the earth, and among all there is none that correcteth; all judge in
Also in Micah: "Alas for me, O my soul, because truth has perished from the earth, and among all there is none that correcteth; all judge in blood. Every one treadeth down his neighbour with tribulation; they prepare their hands for evil." [4927] Also in the same: "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, because I have fallen, bu…
2,315 wordsSECTION 325In an interesting chapter of his Hippolytus, Bishop Wordsworth considers the possibility of the authorship of that work as his, and discusse
In an interesting chapter of his Hippolytus, Bishop Wordsworth considers the possibility of the authorship of that work as his, and discusses it with ability and learning. Nearly all that is known or conjectured concerning Caius is there condensed and elucidated. But Lardner devotes a yet more learned chapter to him; and to that…
2,228 wordsSECTION 326[4965] [tou tote episkopou, "the then bishop." Text of Routh.]
[4965] [tou tote episkopou, "the then bishop." Text of Routh.] [4966] There is another reading--named (klethenai) instead of chosen or elected (klerothenai). [4967] [Thus early, primitive canons are recognised as in force.] [4968] [Here we have an early foreshadowing of the schoolmen, whose rise was predicted by St. Bernard i…
2,206 wordsSECTION 327Now as to his orthodoxy, so far as his extant writings are concerned, I think any scholar, not anxious to make out a case, will abide by the
Now as to his orthodoxy, so far as his extant writings are concerned, I think any scholar, not anxious to make out a case, will abide by the candid judgment of Bull, who defends his reputation against Petavius. [5004] "By no means," he says, "should we tolerate that injustice of the Jesuit Petau towards the ancient writers, agai…
1,083 wordsSECTION 328Preface.
Preface. Novatian's treatise concerning the Trinity is divided into thirty-one chapters. He first of all, from chapter first to the eighth, considers those words of the Rule of Truth or Faith, [5015] which bid us believe on God the Father and Lord Almighty, the absolutely perfect Creator of all things. Wherein among the other d…
2,281 wordsSECTION 329Chapter III. Argument.--That God is the Founder of All Things, Their Lord and Parent, is Proved from the Holy Scriptures.
[5021] Viritior. [See Robert Hall on French Atheism.] Chapter III. Argument.--That God is the Founder of All Things, Their Lord and Parent, is Proved from the Holy Scriptures. Him, then, we acknowledge and know to be God, the Creator of all things--Lord on account of His power, Parent on account of His discipline--Him, I say, …
771 wordsSECTION 330Chapter IV. Argument.--Moreover, He is Good, Always the Same, Immutable, One and Only, Infinite; And His Own Name Can Never Be Declared, and He is Incorruptible and Immortal.
Chapter IV. Argument.--Moreover, He is Good, Always the Same, Immutable, One and Only, Infinite; And His Own Name Can Never Be Declared, and He is Incorruptible and Immortal. Him alone the Lord rightly declares good, of whose goodness the whole world is witness; which world He would not have ordained if He had not been good. Fo…
2,286 wordsSECTION 331Chapter VII. Argument.--Moreover, that When God is Called a Spirit, Brightness, and Light, God is Not Sufficiently Expressed by Those Appellations.
[5039] Ps. xxxiv. 15. [Anthropopathy, p. 611.] [5040] Gen. viii. 21. [5041] Ex. xxxi. 18. [5042] Ps. cxxxvi. 12. [5043] Isa. i. 20. [5044] Isa. lxvi. 1. [Capp. v. and vi. are specimens of vigorous thought.] [5045] 2 Chron. xix. 16. [5046] Ps. cxxxix. 8, 9, 10. [5047] John iv. 21. [5048] John iv. 24. [5049] sc. in the O…
2,580 wordsSECTION 332Chapter X. Argument.--That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Truly Man, as Opposed to the Fancies of Heretics, Who Deny that He Took Upon Him True Flesh.
[5063] Gen. xvii. 8. [5064] Gen. xlix. 10. [5065] Ex. iv. 13. [5066] Deut. xviii. 15. [5067] Deut. xxviii. 66. [5068] Isa. xi. 1. [5069] Isa. vii. 13. [5070] Isa. xxxv. 3-6. [5071] Isa. xiii. 2, 3. [5072] Isa. lv. 3. [5073] Isa. lv. 4, 5. [5074] Isa. liii. 7. [5075] Isa. liii. 5. [5076] Isa. liii. 2. [5077] Isa. lx…
998 wordsSECTION 333Chapter XI.--And Indeed that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son of Man, So Also He Was the Son of God.
Chapter XI.--And Indeed that Christ Was Not Only Man, But God Also; That Even as He Was the Son of Man, So Also He Was the Son of God. But lest, from the fact of asserting that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Creator, was manifested in the substance of the true body, we should seem either to have given assent to othe…
1,133 wordsSECTION 334Chapter XII. Argument.--That Christ is God, is Proved by the Authority of the Old Testament Scriptures.
Chapter XII. Argument.--That Christ is God, is Proved by the Authority of the Old Testament Scriptures. Why, then, should we hesitate to say what Scripture does not shrink from declaring? Why shall the truth of faith hesitate in that wherein the authority of Scripture has never hesitated? For, behold, Hosea the prophet says in …
986 wordsSECTION 335Chapter XIII. Argument.--That the Same Truth is Proved from the Sacred Writings of the New Covenant.
Chapter XIII. Argument.--That the Same Truth is Proved from the Sacred Writings of the New Covenant. And thus also John, describing the nativity of Christ, says: "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." [5094] For, moreover, "H…
1,037 wordsSECTION 336Chapter XIV. Argument.--The Author Prosecutes the Same Argument.
Chapter XIV. Argument.--The Author Prosecutes the Same Argument. And yet the heretic still shrinks from urging that Christ is God, whom he perceives to be proved God by so many words as well as facts. If Christ is only man, how, when He came into this world, did He come unto His own, since a man could have made no world? If Chr…
779 wordsSECTION 337Chapter XV. [5116] Argument.--Again He Proves from the Gospel that Christ is God.
Chapter XV. [5116] Argument.--Again He Proves from the Gospel that Christ is God. If Christ is only man, how is it that He says, "Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: because I know whence I came, and whither I go; ye know not whence I came, and whither I go. Ye judge after the flesh?" [5117] Behold, also He s…
1,619 wordsSECTION 338Chapter XVI. [5129] Argument.--Again from the Gospel He Proves Christ to Be God.
Chapter XVI. [5129] Argument.--Again from the Gospel He Proves Christ to Be God. If Christ was only man, how is it that He Himself says, "And every one that believeth in me shall not die for evermore?" [5130] And yet he who believes in man by himself alone is called accursed; but he who believes on Christ is not accursed, but i…
1,259 wordsSECTION 339Chapter XVII. [5136] Argument.--It Is, Moreover, Proved by Moses in the Beginning of the Holy Scriptures.
Chapter XVII. [5136] Argument.--It Is, Moreover, Proved by Moses in the Beginning of the Holy Scriptures. What if Moses pursues this same rule of truth, and delivers to us in the beginning of his sacred writings, this principle by which we may learn that all things were created and founded by the Son of God, that is, by the Wor…
2,984 wordsSECTION 340Chapter XIX. [5164] Argument.--That God Also Appeared to Jacob as an Angel; Namely, the Son of God.
[5146] According to Pamelius, ch. xxvi. [5147] Gen. xii. 7. [5148] Ex. xxxiii. 20. [5149] 1 John iv. 12. [5150] 1 Tim. vi. 16. [5151] [This leading up and educating of humanity to "see God" is here admirably put. Heb. i. 3.] [5152] [De subordinatione, etc.: Bull, Defensio, etc., vol. v. pp. 767, 685. The Nicene doctrine in…
1,741 wordsSECTION 341Chapter XX. [5172] Argument.--It is Proved from the Scriptures that Christ Was Called an Angel. But Yet It is Shown from Other Parts of Holy Scripture that He is God Also.
Chapter XX. [5172] Argument.--It is Proved from the Scriptures that Christ Was Called an Angel. But Yet It is Shown from Other Parts of Holy Scripture that He is God Also. But if some heretic, obstinately struggling against the truth, should persist in all these instances either in understanding that Christ was properly an ange…
1,959 wordsSECTION 342Chapter XXII. [5193] Argument--That the Same Divine Majesty is in Christ, He Once More Asserts by Other Scriptures.
Chapter XXII. [5193] Argument--That the Same Divine Majesty is in Christ, He Once More Asserts by Other Scriptures. But why, although we appear to hasten to another branch of the argument, should we pass over that passage in the apostle: "Who, although He was in the form of God, did not think it robbery that He should be equal …
1,046 wordsSECTION 343Chapter XXIII. [5196] Argument.--And This is So Manifest, that Some Heretics Have Thought Him to Be God the Father, Others that He Was Only God Without the Flesh.
Chapter XXIII. [5196] Argument.--And This is So Manifest, that Some Heretics Have Thought Him to Be God the Father, Others that He Was Only God Without the Flesh. In this place I may be permitted also to collect arguments from the side of other heretics. It is a substantial kind of proof which is gathered even from an adversary…
2,469 wordsSECTION 344Chapter XXVI. [5209] Argument.--Moreover, Against the Sabellians He Proves that the Father is One, the Son Another.
[5206] According to Pamelius, ch. xx. [5207] Matt. x. 28. [5208] [Luke xx. 38. A solemn admonition is found in the parallel Scripture, Matt. xxii. 29, which teaches us how much we ought to find beneath the surface of Holy Writ.] Chapter XXVI. [5209] Argument.--Moreover, Against the Sabellians He Proves that the Father is One,…
954 wordsSECTION 345Chapter XXVII. [5227] Argument.--He Skilfully Replies to a Passage Which the Heretics Employed in Defence of Their Own Opinion.
Chapter XXVII. [5227] Argument.--He Skilfully Replies to a Passage Which the Heretics Employed in Defence of Their Own Opinion. But since they frequently urge upon us the passage where it is said, "I and the Father are one," [5228] in this also we shall overcome them with equal facility. For if, as the heretics think, Christ we…
1,044 wordsSECTION 346Chapter XXVIII. Argument.--He Proves Also that the Words Spoken to Philip Make Nothing for the Sabellians.
Chapter XXVIII. Argument.--He Proves Also that the Words Spoken to Philip Make Nothing for the Sabellians. Hereto also I will add that view wherein the heretic, while he rejoices as if at the loss of some power of seeing special truth and light, acknowledges the total blindness of his error. For again and again, and frequently,…
3,014 wordsSECTION 347[5257] Joel ii. 28; Acts ii. 17.
[5257] Joel ii. 28; Acts ii. 17. [5258] John xx. 22, 23. [5259] John xiv. 16, 17. [5260] 2 Cor. iv. 13. [5261] John xiv. 16, 17. [5262] John xv. 20. [5263] John xvi. 7. [5264] John xvi. 13. [5265] [John xiv. 18, Greek.] [5266] Isa. xi. 2, 3. [5267] Isa. lxi. 1. [5268] Ps. xlv. 7. [5269] Rom. viii. 9. [5270] 2 Cor. i…
2,904 wordsSECTION 348[5297] As the Word formed. [He expounds Ps. xliv. (xlv.), Sept.]
[5297] As the Word formed. [He expounds Ps. xliv. (xlv.), Sept.] [5298] ["In a sense;" i.e., in logic, not time.] [5299] [Compare the Athanasian Confession.] [5300] [As in the Athanasian Confession.] [5301] There is apparently some indistinct reference here to the passage in Heb. v. 7, "and was heard in that He feared"--apo …
2,989 wordsSECTION 349[5316] [See chap. ii. p. 645, supra, note 9.]
[5316] [See chap. ii. p. 645, supra, note 9.] [5317] Sui culpa. [5318] [The moral uses of the animal creation are recognised in all languages; as when we say of men, a serpent, a fox, a hog, an ass, etc.; so otherwise, a lion, a lamb, an eagle, a dove, etc.] [5319] [Novatian was a keen analyst, and his allegorial renderings a…
2,009 wordsSECTION 350Chapter VII. Argument.--Moreover, We Must Be Careful that No One Should Think that This Licence May Be Carried to Such an Extent as that He May Approach to Things Offered to Idols.
Chapter VII. Argument.--Moreover, We Must Be Careful that No One Should Think that This Licence May Be Carried to Such an Extent as that He May Approach to Things Offered to Idols. But it must be very greatly guarded against in the use of food, and we must be warned lest any should think that liberty is permitted to that degree…
2,213 wordsSECTION 3514. Let us now take the second character also of the dove sent forth from the ark, that is to say, in the time of the deluge, when all the ab
4. Let us now take the second character also of the dove sent forth from the ark, that is to say, in the time of the deluge, when all the abysses broke forth; when the cataracts of heaven were opened upon the earth, on account of the wickedness of men which they daily practised before the Lord; as said Moses, "And the Lord God s…
2,328 wordsSECTION 35213. I beseech thee, hast thou not read, "Boast not, and speak not loftily, and let not arrogancy proceed out of your mouth: for the Lord lif
13. I beseech thee, hast thou not read, "Boast not, and speak not loftily, and let not arrogancy proceed out of your mouth: for the Lord lifteth the poor from the earth; He raiseth up the beggar from the dunghill, and maketh him to sit with the mighty ones of the people?" [5387] Hast thou not read, that "the Lord resisteth the p…
2,353 wordsSECTION 353[5347] Phil. iii. 2.
[5347] Phil. iii. 2. [5348] Rev. iii. 17. [5349] John x. 1. [5350] John x. 8. [5351] Isa. xxx. 1. [5352] Infelicissimi. This is supposed to be a play upon the name of Felicissimus, referred to in Cyprian's letter, [xlviii. p. 325, supra]. [5353] [Ep. xl. p. 319, supra: et alibi.] [5354] Ezek. xliv. 10-13. [5355] [See p. …
2,232 wordsSECTION 3543. And to these things thou perchance, who art bringing in some novelty, mayest immediately and impatiently reply, as thou art wont, that th
3. And to these things thou perchance, who art bringing in some novelty, mayest immediately and impatiently reply, as thou art wont, that the Lord said in the Gospel: "Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." [5436] Whence it manifestly appears that that baptism alone is…
2,321 wordsSECTION 3557. Neither must you esteem what our Lord said as being contrary to this treatment: "Go ye, teach the nations; baptize them in the name of th
7. Neither must you esteem what our Lord said as being contrary to this treatment: "Go ye, teach the nations; baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." [5443] Because, although this is true and right, and to be observed by all means in the Church, and moreover has been used to be observed, y…
2,585 wordsSECTION 35612. Wherefore the whole of this discussion must be considered, that it may be made clearer. For the invocation of the name of Jesus can only
12. Wherefore the whole of this discussion must be considered, that it may be made clearer. For the invocation of the name of Jesus can only be an advantage if it shall be subsequently properly supplemented, because both prophets and apostles have so declared. For James says in the Acts of the Apostles: "Men and brethren, hearke…
2,626 wordsSECTION 35716. But since the first part of this argument seems to be unfolded, we ought to touch on its subsequent part, on account of the heretics; be
16. But since the first part of this argument seems to be unfolded, we ought to touch on its subsequent part, on account of the heretics; because it is very necessary not to pass over that discussion which once falls into our hands, lest perchance some heretic should dare, of his subtlety, to assail those of our brethren who are…
2,226 wordsSECTION 358[5489] Eusebius calls him Novatus.
[5489] Eusebius calls him Novatus. [5490] See H. E., book viii. chaps. ii., iii, and iv.; and vol. vi., this series. Indexes Index of Scripture References Genesis [1]1:1 [2]1:2 [3]1:2 [4]1:2 [5]1:3 [6]1:3 [7]1:4 [8]1:4-5 [9]1:5 [10]1:6 [11]1:6-7 [12]1:6-7 [13]1:7 [14]1:7 [15]1:9 [16]1:9 [17]1:26 [18]1:26 [19]1:26 [20]1:26 […
2,276 wordsSECTION 359Acts
Acts [2205]1:4-5 [2206]1:5 [2207]1:7 [2208]1:14 [2209]1:14 [2210]1:15 [2211]2:2-4 [2212]2:3 [2213]2:17 [2214]2:17-18 [2215]2:20 [2216]2:24 [2217]2:33 [2218]2:34 [2219]2:38-39 [2220]3:1 [2221]3:6 [2222]3:14 [2223]3:24 [2224]4:2 [2225]4:6 [2226]4:8-12 [2227]4:12 [2228]4:19 [2229]4:32 [2230]4:32 [2231]4:32 [2232]4:32 [2233]4:36 [2…
1,057 wordsSECTION 360* doxan: [3215]1 * 'Angelou: [3216]1 * abasileutos: [3217]1 * abouleutos: [3218]1 * abouletos: [3219]1 * agnomon: [3220]1 * agorazei: [3221]
* doxan: [3215]1 * 'Angelou: [3216]1 * abasileutos: [3217]1 * abouleutos: [3218]1 * abouletos: [3219]1 * agnomon: [3220]1 * agorazei: [3221]1 * agorasei: [3222]1 * adunatos: [3223]1 * adelphotheos: [3224]1 * adiakritoi: [3225]1 * adiaphoroi: [3226]1 * adiaphoron: [3227]1 * aei: [3228]1 * aeiparthenou: [3229]1 * aekousa: [3230]1 …
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