Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Acts 19:9
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 685, footnote 8 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Ethical. (HTML)
On Prayer. (HTML)
When Praying the Father, You are Not to Be Angry with a Brother. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 8833 (In-Text, Margin)
... have contracted with our brethren. For what sort of deed is it to approach the peace of God without peace? the remission of debts while you retain them? How will he appease his Father who is angry with his brother, when from the beginning “all anger” is forbidden us? For even Joseph, when dismissing his brethren for the purpose of fetching their father, said, “And be not angry in the way.” He warned us, to be sure, at that time (for elsewhere our Discipline is called “the Way”[Acts 19:9]), that when, set in “the way” of prayer, we go not unto “the Father” with anger. After that, the Lord, “amplifying the Law,” openly adds the prohibition of anger against a brother to that of murder. Not even by an evil word does He ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 483, footnote 1 (Image)
Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome
Life and Works of Rufinus with Jerome's Apology Against Rufinus. (HTML)
Jerome's Apology for Himself Against the Books of Rufinus. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
It is hard that an old friend with whom I had been reconciled should attack me in a book secretly circulated among his disciples. (HTML)
I have learned not only from your letter but from those of many others that cavils are raised against me in the school of Tyrannus,[Acts 19:9] “by the tongue of my dogs from the enemies by himself” because I have translated the books Περὶ ᾽Αρχῶν into Latin. What unprecedented shamelessness is this! They accuse the physician for detecting the poison: and this in order to protect their vendor of drugs, not in obtaining the reward of innocence but in his partnership with the criminal; as if the number of the offenders diminished the ...