Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Corinthians 14:16

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 336, footnote 6 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Against Heresies: Book I (HTML)

Chapter XIV.—The various hypotheses of Marcus and others. Theories respecting letters and syllables. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2831 (In-Text, Margin)

... it does in fact name the whole. For while every one of them is a part of the whole, it imagines its own sound to be the whole name, and does not leave off sounding until, by its own utterance, it has reached the last letter of each of the elements. This teacher declares that the restitution of all things will take place, when all these, mixing into one letter, shall utter one and the same sound. He imagines that the emblem of this utterance is found in Amen, which we pronounce in concert.[1 Corinthians 14:16] The diverse sounds (he adds) are those which give form to that Æon who is without material substance and unbegotten, and these, again, are the forms which the Lord has called angels, who continually behold the face of the Father.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 171, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2505 (In-Text, Margin)

... peace. In the gospel I read:—“if thou bring thy gift to the altar and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee; leave there thy gift before the altar and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” If then we may not offer gifts that are our own unless we are at peace with our brothers; how much less can we receive the body of Christ if we cherish enmity in our hearts? How can I conscientiously approach Christ’s eucharist and answer the Amen[1 Corinthians 14:16] if I doubt the charity of him who ministers it?