Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 19:23

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 19:23]), 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 10, page 207, footnote 4 (Image)

Ambrose: Select Works and Letters

Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)

Exposition of the Christian Faith. (HTML)

Book I. (HTML)
Chapter V. The various blasphemies uttered by the Arians against Christ are cited. Before these are replied to, the orthodox are admonished to beware of the captious arguments of philosophers, forasmuch as in these especially did the heretics put their trust. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1748 (In-Text, Margin)

41. Seeing, then, that the heretic says that Christ is unlike His Father, and seeks to maintain this by force of subtle disputation, we must cite the Scripture: “Take heed that no man make spoil of you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition of men, and after the rudiments of this world, not according to Christ; for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of Godhead in bodily shape.”[Acts 19:23]

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