The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325 Volume IV Fathers of the Third Century -Tertullian Part 4; Minucius Felix; CommoAlexander Roberts Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M05 1 - 704 pages "One of the first great events in Christian history was the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened to organize Christian sects and beliefs into a unified doctrine. The great Christian clergymen who wrote before this famous event are referred to as the Ante-Nicenes and the Apostolic Fathers, and their writings are collected here in a ten-volume set. The Ante-Nicenes lived so close to the time of Christ that their interpretations of the New Testament are considered more authentic than modern voices. But they are also real and flawed men, who are more like their fellow Christians than they are like the Apostles, making their words echo in the ears of spiritual seekers. In Volume IV of the 10-volume collected works of the Ante-Nicenes first published between 1885 and 1896, readers will find the writings of: Tertullian, a Christian apologist and influential Latin Christian thinker Minucius Felix, known for his dialog Octavius Commodianus, a Latin poet who converted to Christianity Origen, a prolific writer and theologian." |
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... human lust, which such angels yearned after, so as not rather to have been inflamed for virgins, whose bloom pleads an excuse for human lust likewise ? For thus does Scripture withal suggest : " And it came to pass," it says, " when men ...
... human lust, which such angels yearned after, so as not rather to have been inflamed for virgins, whose bloom pleads an excuse for human lust likewise ? For thus does Scripture withal suggest : " And it came to pass," it says, " when men ...
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... human race, and devised for the replenishment j of the earth 's and the furnishing of the world,'6 [ and therefore permitted, yet singly. For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib.*7 We grant l8 that ...
... human race, and devised for the replenishment j of the earth 's and the furnishing of the world,'6 [ and therefore permitted, yet singly. For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib.*7 We grant l8 that ...
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... human sense, not from divine prescript. For, withal, when he has laid down the definitive rule with reference to " the widowed and the unwedded," that they are to " marry if they cannot contain," because " better it is to marry than to ...
... human sense, not from divine prescript. For, withal, when he has laid down the definitive rule with reference to " the widowed and the unwedded," that they are to " marry if they cannot contain," because " better it is to marry than to ...
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... human judgment. When, however, he turns their minds back to continence, (" But I will you all so to be,") " I think, moreover," he says, " I too have the Spirit of God ; " in order that, if he had granted any indulgence out of necessity ...
... human judgment. When, however, he turns their minds back to continence, (" But I will you all so to be,") " I think, moreover," he says, " I too have the Spirit of God ; " in order that, if he had granted any indulgence out of necessity ...
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