Ante-Nicene Fathers • VOLUME 8
The Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More
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ANTE-NICENE FATHERS
ANTE-NICENE FATHERS VOLUME 8. The Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocrypha, Decretals, Memoirs of Edessa and Syriac Documents, Remains of the First Ages Edited by ALEXANDER ROBERTS, D.D., and JAMES DONALDSON, LL.D. Revised and Chronologically Arranged, with Brief Prefaces and Occasional Notes by …
2,418 wordsSECTION 2Regarded as a sort of Jewish surrender to Justin's argument with Trypho, this book is interesting, and represents, no doubt, the convictions
Regarded as a sort of Jewish surrender to Justin's argument with Trypho, this book is interesting, and represents, no doubt, the convictions of thousands of Jewish converts of the first age. It is, in short, worthy of more attention than it has yet received. Here follows Mr. Sinker's valuable Introductory Notice:-- The apocryp…
2,203 wordsSECTION 3[11] Acts xxvi. 7.
[11] Acts xxvi. 7. [12] See The Christ of Jewish History in Stanley Leathes' Bampton Lectures, p. 51, ed. New York, 1874; also Westcott, Introduction to Study of the Gospels, 3d ed., London, Macmillans, 1867. Note, on the Book of Henoch, pp. 69, 93-101; on the Book of Jubilees p. 109. He puts this book into the first century, l…
2,217 wordsSECTION 4[43] [This section is censured by Lardner as unsuitable to dying admonitions. He forgets Oriental simplicity.]
[43] [This section is censured by Lardner as unsuitable to dying admonitions. He forgets Oriental simplicity.] [44] This name, occurring once again in the Testaments (Naph. 3), is one frequently found applied to the angels as the custodians of the world and of men. Thus, in the Chaldee of Daniel (iv. 10, 14, 20: 13, 17, 23, Eng…
2,237 wordsSECTION 53. Hear, then, concerning the seven [64] heavens. The lowest is for this cause more gloomy, in that it is near all the iniquities of men. Th
3. Hear, then, concerning the seven [64] heavens. The lowest is for this cause more gloomy, in that it is near all the iniquities of men. The second hath fire, snow, ice, ready for the day of the ordinance of the Lord, in the righteous judgment of God: in it are all the spirits of the retributions for vengeance on the wicked. In…
2,331 wordsSECTION 614. And now, my children, I have learnt from the writing of Enoch that at the last ye will deal ungodly, laying your hands upon the Lord in
14. And now, my children, I have learnt from the writing of Enoch that at the last ye will deal ungodly, laying your hands upon the Lord in all malice; and your brethren shall be ashamed because of you, and to all the Gentiles shall it become a mocking. For our father Israel shall be pure from the ungodliness of the chief priest…
2,233 wordsSECTION 72. And the Lord showed me favour in all my works both in the field and at home. When I saw that I could run with the hind, then I caught it,
2. And the Lord showed me favour in all my works both in the field and at home. When I saw that I could run with the hind, then I caught it, and prepared meat for my father. I seized upon the roes in the chase, and all that was in the plains I outran. A wild mare I outran, and I caught it and tamed it; and I slew a lion, and plu…
2,353 wordsSECTION 815. He that committeth fornication, and [109] uncovereth his nakedness, hath become the servant of fornication, and escapeth not [110] from
15. He that committeth fornication, and [109] uncovereth his nakedness, hath become the servant of fornication, and escapeth not [110] from the power thereof, even as I also was uncovered. For I gave my staff, that is, the stay of my tribe; and my girdle, that is, my power; and my diadem, that is, the glory of my kingdom. Then I…
2,212 wordsSECTION 9[111] Cd. Oxon. reads ti de lego; med' holos pinete, which seems much more suitable to the context.
[111] Cd. Oxon. reads ti de lego; med' holos pinete, which seems much more suitable to the context. [112] [1 Kings xi. 1, and ver. 11.] [113] [Num. xv. 25 and Acts iii. 17.] [114] [See cap. 13, p. 19, supra.] [115] Cd. Oxon. omits the whole of this chapter. [116] [Rom. xi. 26.] [117] The reading of Cd. Oxon. is doubtless t…
2,437 wordsSECTION 105. And now, my children, I bid you to keep the commands of the Lord, and to show mercy upon your neighbour, and to have compassion towards a
5. And now, my children, I bid you to keep the commands of the Lord, and to show mercy upon your neighbour, and to have compassion towards all, not towards men only, but also towards beasts. For for this thing's sake the Lord blessed me; and when all my brethren were sick I escaped without sickness, for the Lord knoweth the purp…
2,502 wordsSECTION 116. And now, my children, fear the Lord, and take heed unto yourselves of Satan and his spirits; and draw near unto God, and to the Angel [14
6. And now, my children, fear the Lord, and take heed unto yourselves of Satan and his spirits; and draw near unto God, and to the Angel [149] that intercedeth for you, for He is a Mediator between God and man for the peace of Israel. He shall stand up against the kingdom of the enemy; therefore is the enemy eager to destroy all…
2,343 wordsSECTION 129. And when he had charged them with many such words, he exhorted them that they should remove his bones to Hebron, and should bury him with
9. And when he had charged them with many such words, he exhorted them that they should remove his bones to Hebron, and should bury him with his fathers. And when he had eaten and drunken with a merry heart, he covered his face and died. And his sons did according to all things whatsoever Naphtali their father had charged them. …
2,361 wordsSECTION 133. Do not ye therefore, my children, wear two faces like unto them, of goodness and of wickedness; but cleave unto goodness only, for in goo
3. Do not ye therefore, my children, wear two faces like unto them, of goodness and of wickedness; but cleave unto goodness only, for in goodness doth God rest, and men desire it. From wickedness flee away, destroying the devil by your good works; for they that are double-faced serve not God, but their own lusts, so that they ma…
2,322 wordsSECTION 148. I declare unto you, my children, that it was about the sixth hour when she departed from me; and I knelt before the Lord all that day, an
8. I declare unto you, my children, that it was about the sixth hour when she departed from me; and I knelt before the Lord all that day, and continued all the night; and about dawn I rose up weeping, and praying for a release from the Egyptian. At last, then, she laid hold of my garments, forcibly dragging me to have connection…
2,233 wordsSECTION 15[176] [Matt. vi. 6. He veils the quotation by a fiction, as to authorship, to support the plan of his work.]
[176] [Matt. vi. 6. He veils the quotation by a fiction, as to authorship, to support the plan of his work.] [177] [Dan. i. 15.] [178] This repetition of a clause seems like the slip of a copyist. The Ox. ms. reads, eis ten heirkten tou Pharao [179] [To this section Lardner takes exception, as unbecoming to the gravity of Jos…
2,238 wordsSECTION 1612. And when he finished his words, he said: I charge you, my children, carry up my bones out of Egypt, and bury me at Hebron, near my fathe
12. And when he finished his words, he said: I charge you, my children, carry up my bones out of Egypt, and bury me at Hebron, near my fathers. So Benjamin died a hundred and twenty-five years old, in a good old age, and they placed him in a coffin. And in the ninety-first year of the departure of the children of Israel from Egy…
2,328 wordsSECTION 17XIII. "By two and three witnesses every word is established." [223] By Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, by whose witness and help the presc
XIII. "By two and three witnesses every word is established." [223] By Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit, by whose witness and help the prescribed commandments ought to be kept. [224] XIV. Fasting, according to the signification of the word, is abstinence from food. Now food makes us neither more righteous nor less. But mystical…
2,279 wordsSECTION 18XXX. The life of the Gnostic rule, (as they say that Crete was barren of deadly animals,) is pure from every evil deed, and thought, and wor
XXX. The life of the Gnostic rule, (as they say that Crete was barren of deadly animals,) is pure from every evil deed, and thought, and word; not only hating no one, but beyond envy and hatred, and all evil-speaking and slander. XXXI. In length of days, it is not on account of his having lived long that the man is to be regard…
2,461 wordsSECTION 19LVII. There are then, according to the apostle, those on the summit, [284] the first-created. And they are thrones, although Powers, being t
LVII. There are then, according to the apostle, those on the summit, [284] the first-created. And they are thrones, although Powers, being the first-created, inasmuch as God rests in them, as also in those who believe. For each one, according to his own stage of advancement possesses the knowledge of God in a way special to hims…
2,222 wordsSECTION 20Chapter I.--The Salutation.
A German translation of these epistles was published by Zingerle (1821). They are now for the first time translated into the English language. The translation is made from the text of Beelen. The division into chapters is due to Wetstein. [290] See vol. vii. pp. 509-523. [291] Against this class Cyprian stoutly contended. Co…
1,172 wordsSECTION 21Chapter IV.--Continuation of the Remarks on Self-Denial; Object and Reward of True Virgins.
Chapter IV.--Continuation of the Remarks on Self-Denial; Object and Reward of True Virgins. For he who covets for himself these things so great and excellent, withdraws and severs himself on this account from all the world, that he may go and live a life divine and heavenly, like the holy angels, in work pure and holy, and "in …
708 wordsSECTION 22Chapter VI.--Divinity of Virginity.
Chapter VI.--Divinity of Virginity. The womb of a holy virgin [338] carried our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God; and the body which our Lord wore, and in which He carried on the conflict in this world, He put on from a holy virgin. From this, therefore, understand the greatness and dignity of virginity. Dost thou wish to be a…
1,157 wordsSECTION 23Chapter IX.--Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of Persons Consecrated to God.
Chapter IX.--Continuation of the Subject of Mortification; Dignity of Persons Consecrated to God. He in whomsoever the Spirit of God is, is in accord with the will of the Spirit of God; and, because he is in accord with the Spirit of God, therefore does he mortify the deeds of the body and live unto God, "treading down and subj…
703 wordsSECTION 24Chapter XI.--Perniciousness of Idleness; Warning Against the Empty Longing to Be Teachers; Advice About Teaching and the Use of Divine Gifts.
Chapter XI.--Perniciousness of Idleness; Warning Against the Empty Longing to Be Teachers; Advice About Teaching and the Use of Divine Gifts. Such are the ways of all those who do not work, but go hunting for tales, and think to themselves that this is profitable and right. [385] For such persons are like those idle and prating…
859 wordsSECTION 25Chapter XII.--Rules for Visits, Exorcisms, and How People are to Assist the Sick, and to Walk in All Things Without Offence.
Chapter XII.--Rules for Visits, Exorcisms, and How People are to Assist the Sick, and to Walk in All Things Without Offence. Moreover, also, this is comely and useful, that a man "visit orphans and widows," [409] and especially those poor persons who have many children. These things are, without controversy, required of the ser…
774 wordsSECTION 26Chapter XIII.--What Priests Should Be and Should Not Be.
Chapter XIII.--What Priests Should Be and Should Not Be. Beloved brethren! that a man should build up and establish the brethren on the faith in one God, this also is manifest and well-known. This too, again, is comely, that a man should not be envious of his neighbour. And moreover, again, it is suitable and comely that all th…
797 wordsSECTION 27Chapter II.--His Behaviour in Places Where There Were Christians of Both Sexes.
Chapter II.--His Behaviour in Places Where There Were Christians of Both Sexes. And if, moreover, it chance that we are distant from our homes and from our neighbours, and the day decline and the eventide overtake us, and the brethren press us, through love of the brotherhood and by reason of their affection for strangers, to s…
738 wordsSECTION 28Chapter IV.--Conduct of the Holy Man Where There are Women Only.
Chapter IV.--Conduct of the Holy Man Where There are Women Only. But if we chance to come into a place where there are no Christian men, but all the believers are women and maidens, [448] and they press us to pass the night there in that place, we call them all together to some suitable place, [449] and ask them how they do; an…
894 wordsSECTION 29Chapter VI.--How Christians Should Behave Themselves Among Heathens.
Chapter VI.--How Christians Should Behave Themselves Among Heathens. If, moreover, it chance that we go to a place in which there are no Christians, and it be important for us to stay there a few days, let us be "wise as serpents, and harmless as doves;" [458] and let us "not be as the foolish, but as the wise," [459] in all th…
710 wordsSECTION 30Chapter VIII.--Joseph and Potiphar's Wife; Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to Be.
Chapter VIII.--Joseph and Potiphar's Wife; Of What Kind Love to Females Ought to Be. There is Joseph, faithful, and intelligent, and wise, and who feared God in everything. Did not a woman conceive an excessive passion for the beauty of this chaste and upright man? And, when he would not yield and consent to gratify her passion…
772 wordsSECTION 31Chapter XII.--Solomon's Infatuation Through Women.
Chapter XII.--Solomon's Infatuation Through Women. Hast thou not read the history of Solomon, the son of David, the man to whom God gave wisdom, and knowledge, and largeness of mind, [484] and riches, and much glory, beyond all men? Yet this same man, through women, came to ruin, [485] and departed from the Lord. [484] Lit. "h…
794 wordsSECTION 32Chapter XV.--The Example of Jesus; How We May Allow Ourselves to Be Served by Women.
Chapter XV.--The Example of Jesus; How We May Allow Ourselves to Be Served by Women. And, not to extend our discourse to too great length, what shall we say concerning our Lord Jesus Christ? Our Lord Himself was constantly with His twelve disciples when He had come forth to the world. And not only so; but also, when He was send…
1,738 wordsSECTION 33II., III.......III.
II., III.......III. ------......IV.-VII. IV.......VIII., IX. V.......X., XV. VI.......XI. VII.......XII., XIII. VIII., IX.......XIV., XV. ------......XVI.-XIX. X.......XX. [504] History of the Christian Church, vol. ii. p. 436, new edition. [505] See the Introductory Note of the Edinburgh translator. [506] Uhlhorn, ar…
2,229 wordsSECTION 34Book I.
[529] Var. readings: "magnanimous one," "my lord," "my friend." [530] [The reference is probably to the transformation of the father of Clement into the appearance of Simon Magus. This is narrated in both the Recognitions (book x. 53, etc.) and in the Homilies (xx. 12, etc.), though the latter book closes without any statement …
850 wordsSECTION 35Chapter IV.--His Increasing Disquiet.
Chapter IV.--His Increasing Disquiet. Being therefore straitened in the discovery of things, I said to myself, Why do we labour in vain, since the end of things is manifest? For if after death I shall be no more, my present torture is useless; but if there is to be for me a life after death, let us keep for that life the excite…
808 wordsSECTION 36Chapter VII.--Arrival of Barnabas at Rome.
Chapter VII.--Arrival of Barnabas at Rome. At length meetings began to be held in various places in the city, and this subject to be discussed in conversation, and to be a matter of wonder who this might be who had appeared, and what message He had brought from God to men; until, about the same year, a certain man, standing in …
759 wordsSECTION 37Chapter IX.--Clement's Interposition on Behalf of Barnabas.
Chapter IX.--Clement's Interposition on Behalf of Barnabas. When he had thus spoken, all, as with one consent, with rude voice raised a shout of derision, to put him to shame, and to silence him, crying out that he was a barbarian and a madman. When I saw matters going on in this way, being filled, I know not whence, with a cer…
846 wordsSECTION 38Chapter XII.--Clement's Arrival at Cæsarea, and Introduction to Peter.
Chapter XII.--Clement's Arrival at Cæsarea, and Introduction to Peter. Having then stopped for a few days, and having in some measure finished the business of collecting what was owing to me (for I neglected many things through my desire of hastening, that I might not be hindered from my purpose), I set sail direct for Judæa, a…
732 wordsSECTION 39Chapter XV.--Peter's First Instruction: Causes of Ignorance.
Chapter XV.--Peter's First Instruction: Causes of Ignorance. "The will and counsel of God has for many reasons been concealed from men; first, indeed, through bad instruction, wicked associations, evil habits, unprofitable conversation, and unrighteous presumptions. On account of all these, I say, first error, then contempt, th…
869 wordsSECTION 40Chapter XVIII.--His Profiting by Peter's Instruction.
Chapter XVIII.--His Profiting by Peter's Instruction. To this I answered: "I give thanks to God Almighty, because I have been instructed as I wished and desired. At all events, you may depend upon me so far, that I can never come to doubt of those things which I have learned of you; so that even if you yourself should at any ti…
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