Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 16:4

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 86, footnote 1 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Modesty. (HTML)

Of the Verdict of the Apostles, Assembled in Council, Upon the Subject of Adultery. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 823 (In-Text, Margin)

... whole law will be incurred, if the condition of pardon shall be violated. But it is not lightly that the Holy Spirit has come to an agreement with us—coming to this agreement even without our asking; whence He is the more to be honoured. His engagement none but an ungrateful man will dissolve. In that event, He will neither accept back what He has discarded, nor discard what He has retained. Of the latest Testament the condition is ever immutable; and, of course the public recitation of that decree,[Acts 16:4] and the counsel embodied therein, will cease (only) with the world. He has definitely enough refused pardon to those crimes the careful avoidance whereof He selectively enjoined; He has claimed whatever He has not inferentially conceded. Hence it is ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 670, footnote 1 (Image)

Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents

Memoirs of Edessa And Other Ancient Syriac Documents. (HTML)

The Teaching of the Apostles. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3098 (In-Text, Margin)

... the apostles appoint, not for themselves, but for those who should come after them—for they were apprehensive that in time to come wolves would put on sheep’s clothing: since for themselves the Spirit, the Paraclete, which was in them, was sufficient: that, even as He had appointed these laws by their hands, so He would guide them lawfully. For they, who had received from our Lord power and authority, had no need that laws should be appointed for them by others. For Paul also, and Timothy,[Acts 16:4] while they were going from place to place in the country of Syria and Cilicia, committed these same Commands and Laws of the apostles and elders to those who were under the hand of the apostles, for the churches of the countries in which they were ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 41, footnote 1 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

De Spiritu Sancto. (HTML)

Of the origin of the word “with,” and what force it has.  Also concerning the unwritten laws of the church. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1269 (In-Text, Margin)

66. Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church[Acts 16:4] some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us “in a mystery” by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force. And these no one will gainsay;—no one, at all events, who is even moderately versed in the institutions of the Church. For were we to attempt to reject such customs as have no written authority, on the ground that the importance they ...