Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 15:19

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 76, footnote 1 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

On Idolatry. (HTML)

General Conclusion. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 343 (In-Text, Margin)

... every eddy thereof sucks down unto Hades. Let no one say, “Who will so safely foreguard himself? We shall have to go out of the world!” As if it were not as well worth while to go out, as to stand in the world as an idolater! Nothing can be easier than caution against idolatry, if the fear of it be our leading fear; any “necessity” whatever is too trifling compared to such a peril. The reason why the Holy Spirit did, when the apostles at that time were consulting, relax the bond and yoke for us,[Acts 15:1-31] was that we might be free to devote ourselves to the shunning of idolatry. This shall be our Law, the more fully to be administered the more ready it is to hand; (a Law) peculiar to Christians, by means whereof we are recognised and examined by ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 572, footnote 13 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian. Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. (HTML)

The Seventh Council of Carthage under Cyprian. Concerning the Baptism of Heretics. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4813 (In-Text, Margin)

Cyprian of Carthage said: The letter which was written to our colleague Jubaianus very fully expresses my opinion, that, according to evangelical and apostolic testimony, heretics, who are called adversaries of Christ and Antichrists, when they come to the Church, must be baptized with the one baptism of the Church, that they may be made of adversaries, friends, and of Antichrists, Christians.[Acts 15:19]