Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
John 3:31
There are 10 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 674, footnote 14 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Ethical. (HTML)
On Baptism. (HTML)
Of John's Baptism. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 8652 (In-Text, Margin)
... for the remission of sins,” the declaration was made with reference to future remission; if it be true, (as it is,) that repentance is antecedent, remission subsequent; and this is “preparing the way.” But he who “prepares” does not himself “perfect,” but procures for another to perfect. John himself professes that the celestial things are not his, but Christ’s, by saying, “He who is from the earth speaketh concerning the earth; He who comes from the realms above is above all;”[John 3:30-31] and again, by saying that he “baptized in repentance only, but that One would shortly come who would baptize in the Spirit and fire;” —of course because true and stable faith is baptized with water, unto salvation; pretended and weak faith is ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 681, footnote 7 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Ethical. (HTML)
On Prayer. (HTML)
General Introduction. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 8767 (In-Text, Margin)
... when “He had increased”—just as the same John used to fore-announce “that it was needful” that “He should increase and himself decrease” —the whole work of the forerunner passed over, together with his spirit itself, unto the Lord. Therefore, after what form of words John taught to pray is not extant, because earthly things have given place to heavenly. “He who is from the earth,” says John, “speaketh earthly things; and He who is here from the heavens speaketh those things which He hath seen.”[John 3:31-32] And what is the Lord Christ’s—as this method of praying is— that is not heavenly? And so, blessed brethren, let us consider His heavenly wisdom: first, touching the precept of praying secretly, whereby He exacted man’s faith, ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 201, footnote 1 (Image)
Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix
Hippolytus. (HTML)
The Extant Works and Fragments of Hippolytus. (HTML)
Exegetical. (HTML)
On the Psalms. (HTML)
... taken as like the body of Christ and His saints—the only instrument that maintains rectitude; “for He did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth.” This is indeed an instrument, harmonious, melodious, well-ordered, that took in no human discord, and did nothing out of measure, but maintained in all things, as it were, harmony towards the Father; for, as He says: “He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: He that cometh from heaven, testifies of what He has seen and heard.”[John 3:31]
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 623, footnote 1 (Image)
Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix
Novatian. (HTML)
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity. (HTML)
The Author Prosecutes the Same Argument. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 5109 (In-Text, Margin)
... been made by Him, when the world was not by man, but man was ordained after the world? If Christ was only man, how was it that Christ was not only of the seed of David; but He was the Word made flesh and dwelt among us? For although the Protoplast was not born of seed, yet neither was the Protoplast formed of the conjunction of the Word and the flesh. For He is not the Word made flesh, nor dwelt in us. If Christ was only man, how does He “who cometh from heaven testify what He hath seen and heard,”[John 3:31] when it is plain that man cannot come from heaven, because he cannot be born there? If Christ be only man, how are “visible things and invisible, thrones, powers, and dominions,” said to be created by Him and in Him; when the heavenly powers could ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 632, footnote 6 (Image)
Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix
Novatian. (HTML)
A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity. (HTML)
That the Same Divine Majesty is Again Confirmed in Christ by Other Scriptures. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 5185 (In-Text, Margin)
... received of my Father.” Now who is it who says that He can lay down His life, or can Himself recover His life again, because He has received it of His Father? Or who says that He can again resuscitate and rebuild the destroyed temple of His body, except because He is the Word who is from the Father, who is with the Father, “by whom all things were made, and without whom nothing was made;” the imitator of His Father’s works and powers, “the image of the invisible God;” “who came down from heaven;”[John 3:31-32] who testified what things he had seen and heard; who “came not to do His own will, but rather to do the will of the Father,” by whom He had been sent for this very purpose, that being made the “Messenger of Great Counsel,” He might unfold to us the ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 57, footnote 28 (Image)
Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents
Two Epistles Concerning Virginity. (HTML)
The First Epistle of the Blessed Clement, the Disciple of Peter the Apostle. (HTML)
Virgins, by the Laying Aside of All Carnal Affection, are Imitators of God. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 366 (In-Text, Margin)
... quarrelsomeness, injustice, eagerness for victory; hatred, anger, envy, perfidy, retaliation; debauchery, gluttony, “overreaching (which is idolatry),” “the love of money (which is the root of all evils);” love of display, vainglory, love of rule, assumption, pride (which is called death, and which “God fights against”). Every man with whom are these and such like things—every such man is of the flesh. For, “he that is born of the flesh is flesh; and he that is of the earth speaketh of the earth,”[John 3:31] and his thoughts are of the earth. And “the mind of the flesh is enmity towards God. For it does not submit itself to the law of God; for it cannot do so,” because it is in the flesh, “in which dwells no good,” because the Spirit of God is ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 52, footnote 31 (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 VI. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 466 (In-Text, Margin)
... him. John answered and said unto them, A man can receive nothing of himself, except it be [11] given him from heaven. Ye are they that bear witness unto me that I said, I am [12] not the Messiah, but I am one sent before him. And he that hath a bride is a bridegroom: and the friend of the bridegroom is he that standeth and listeneth to him, and rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Lo now, behold, [13, 14] [Arabic, p. 23] my joy becometh complete. And he must increase and I decrease.[John 3:31] For he that is come from above is higher than everything; and he that is of the earth, of the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh; and he that came down from heaven is [15] higher than all. And he beareth witness of what he hath seen and ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 315, footnote 1 (Image)
Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine
The Church History of Eusebius. (HTML)
Book VII (HTML)
The Epistle of the Bishops against Paul. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2415 (In-Text, Margin)
11. For to anticipate something of what we shall presently write, he is unwilling to acknowledge that the Son of God has come down from heaven. And this is not a mere assertion, but it is abundantly proved from the records which we have sent you; and not least where he says ‘Jesus Christ is from below.’[John 3:31] But those singing to him and extolling him among the people say that their impious teacher has come down an angel from heaven. And he does not forbid such things; but the arrogant man is even present when they are uttered.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 492, footnote 1 (Image)
Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters
Synodal Letter to the Bishops of Africa. (Ad Afros Epistola Synodica.) (HTML)
Synodal Letter to the Bishops of Africa. (Ad Afros Epistola Synodica.) (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3748 (In-Text, Margin)
... more plainly, and concisely, that the Son was coessential with the Father; for all the above passages signify this. And their murmuring, that the phrases are unscriptural, is exposed as vain by themselves, for they have uttered their impieties in unscriptural terms: (for such are ‘of nothing’ and ‘there was a time when He was not’), while yet they find fault because they were condemned by unscriptural terms pious in meaning. While they, like men sprung from a dunghill, verily ‘spoke of the earth[John 3:31],’ the Bishops, not having invented their phrases for themselves, but having testimony from their Fathers, wrote as they did. For ancient bishops, of the Great Rome and of our city, some 130 years ago, wrote and censured those who said that the Son ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 323, footnote 11 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
Treatises. (HTML)
The Dialogue Against the Luciferians. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 4083 (In-Text, Margin)
... forgiveness of sins as in being a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, that is, for a future remission, which was to follow through the sanctification of Christ. For it is written, “John came, who baptized in the wilderness, and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.” And soon after, “And they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.” For as he himself preceded Christ as His forerunner, so also his baptism was the prelude to the Lord’s baptism.[John 3:31] “He that is of the earth,” he said, “speaketh of the earth; he that cometh from heaven is above all.” And again, “I indeed baptize you with water, he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.” But if John, as he himself confessed, did not baptize with ...