Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Luke 2:20

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 425, footnote 5 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Against Heresies: Book III (HTML)

Chapter X.—Proofs of the foregoing, drawn from the Gospels of Mark and Luke. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3419 (In-Text, Margin)

... identical truth was also what the angels [proclaimed]. For when they exclaim, “Glory to God in the highest, and in earth peace,” they have glorified with these words Him who is the Creator of the highest, that is, of super-celestial things, and the Founder of everything on earth: who has sent to His own handiwork, that is, to men, the blessing of His salvation from heaven. Wherefore he adds: “The shepherds returned, glorifying God for all which they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.”[Luke 2:20] For the Israelitish shepherds did not glorify another god, but Him who had been announced by the law and the prophets, the Maker of all things, whom also the angels glorified. But if the angels who were from the Ogdoad were accustomed to glorify any ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 46, footnote 25 (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 II. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 209 (In-Text, Margin)

... from them to heaven, the shepherds spake to one another and said, We will go to Bethlehem and see this word which hath been, as [24] the Lord made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary and [25] Joseph, and the babe laid in a manger. And when they saw, they reported the word [26] which was spoken to them about the child. And all that heard wondered at the [27] description which the shepherds described to them. But Mary kept these sayings [28] and discriminated them in her heart.[Luke 2:20] And those shepherds returned, magnifying and praising God for all that they had seen and heard, according as it was described unto them.