Early Latin theology: selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and JeromeStanley Lawrence Greenslade |
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... . I had at one time wished to include the De Officiis of Ambrose , the first " manual " of Christian ethics , but the work is so long that it would have taken up far too much of the available space . Perhaps I 15 TERTULLIAN.
... . I had at one time wished to include the De Officiis of Ambrose , the first " manual " of Christian ethics , but the work is so long that it would have taken up far too much of the available space . Perhaps I 15 TERTULLIAN.
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... Perhaps I should have found room for something from Optatus , whose teaching on the problems raised by the Baptismal Controversy anticipated and influenced much of Augustine's . One result of my choice is that some of the material is ...
... Perhaps I should have found room for something from Optatus , whose teaching on the problems raised by the Baptismal Controversy anticipated and influenced much of Augustine's . One result of my choice is that some of the material is ...
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... perhaps of a few other Latin translations of Greek works such as the Letter of Clement to Corinth and the Shepherd of Hermas . As long as it was believed that these were all later than Tertullian , or even that he himself made the first ...
... perhaps of a few other Latin translations of Greek works such as the Letter of Clement to Corinth and the Shepherd of Hermas . As long as it was believed that these were all later than Tertullian , or even that he himself made the first ...
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... perhaps more important , features of the Christian life . And it became fatally easy to test membership of the Church simply in terms of adherence to a bishop in apostolic succession . Tertullian was to abandon all this in favour of ...
... perhaps more important , features of the Christian life . And it became fatally easy to test membership of the Church simply in terms of adherence to a bishop in apostolic succession . Tertullian was to abandon all this in favour of ...
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... Perhaps it should be rendered more bluntly , " some gaping fools " . Aedificari in ruinam is a play on words , with allusions to Matt . 7:26 ; I Cor . 8:10 . 3 IV Esdras 8:20 , elevati in Vulgate . Perhaps Tertullian understands alti as ...
... Perhaps it should be rendered more bluntly , " some gaping fools " . Aedificari in ruinam is a play on words , with allusions to Matt . 7:26 ; I Cor . 8:10 . 3 IV Esdras 8:20 , elevati in Vulgate . Perhaps Tertullian understands alti as ...
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Page 334 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 319 - For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace; as in all churches of the saints.
Page 351 - And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest...
Page 131 - Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Page 382 - Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: 2.
Page 133 - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God ; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof : from such turn away.
Page 123 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 375 - O Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thy house, and the place where Thy glory dwelleth.
Page 364 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to Angels, and to men.
Page 319 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
References to this book
The Lord's Prayer Through North African Eyes: A Window Into Early Christianity Michael Joseph Brown No preview available - 2004 |