Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Matthew 21:45

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 568, footnote 7 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Anti-Marcion. (HTML)

On the Resurrection of the Flesh. (HTML)

So Much for the Prophetic Scriptures. In the Gospels, Christ's Parables, as Explained by Himself, Have a Clear Reference to the Resurrection of the Flesh. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 7502 (In-Text, Margin)

... always did so, special mention would not be made of His resorting to this mode of address. Besides, there is not a parable which you will not find to be either explained by the Lord Himself, as that of the sower, (which He interprets) of the management of the word of God; or else cleared by a preface from the writer of the Gospel, as in the parable of the arrogant judge and the importunate widow, which is expressly applied to earnestness in prayer; or capable of being spontaneously understood,[Matthew 21:45] as in the parable of the fig-tree, which was spared a while in hopes of improvement—an emblem of Jewish sterility. Now, if even parables obscure not the light of the gospel, how unlikely it is that plain sentences and declarations, which have an ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 95, footnote 21 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)

The Diatessaron. (HTML)

Section XXXIII. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2313 (In-Text, Margin)

[57] Therefore I say unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and [58] given to a people that will produce fruit. And whosoever falleth on this stone shall be broken in pieces: but on whomsoever it falleth, it will grind him to [59] powder.[Matthew 21:45] And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they [60] perceived that it was concerning them he spake. And they sought to seize him; and they feared the multitude, because they were holding to him as the prophet.