Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Matthew 19:15

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 65, footnote 7 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Monogamy. (HTML)

From the Law Tertullian Comes to the Gospel.  He Begins with Examples Before Proceeding to Dogmas. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 645 (In-Text, Margin)

... reproves the scribes and Pharisees, sitting in the official chair of Moses, but not doing what they taught, what kind of (supposition) is it that He Himself withal should set upon His own official chair men who were mindful rather to enjoin—(but) not likewise to practise—sanctity of the flesh, which (sanctity) He had in all ways recommended to their teaching and practising?—first by His own example, then by all other arguments; while He tells (them) that “the kingdom of heavens” is “children’s;”[Matthew 19:13-15] while He associates with these (children) others who, after marriage, remained (or became) virgins;” while He calls (them) to (copy) the simplicity of the dove, a bird not merely innocuous, but modest too, and whereof one male knows one female; ...