Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Corinthians 16:20

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 686, footnote 13 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Prayer. (HTML)

Of the Kiss of Peace. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8864 (In-Text, Margin)

Another custom has now become prevalent. Such as are fasting withhold the kiss of peace, which is the seal of prayer, after prayer made with brethren. But when is peace more to be concluded with brethren than when, at the time of some religious observance, our prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves participate in our observance, and thereby be mollified for transacting with their brother touching their own peace? What prayer is complete if divorced from the “holy kiss?”[1 Corinthians 16:20] Whom does peace impede when rendering service to his Lord? What kind of sacrifice is that from which men depart without peace? Whatever our prayer be, it will not be better than the observance of the precept by which we are bidden to conceal our ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 153, footnote 9 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril. (HTML)

On the Mysteries. V:  On the Sacred Liturgy and Communion. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2480 (In-Text, Margin)

... sign that our souls are mingled together, and banish all remembrance of wrongs. For this cause Christ said, If thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against time, leave there thy gift upon the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. The kiss therefore is reconciliation, and for this reason holy: as the blessed Paul somewhere cried, saying, Greet ye one another with a holy kiss[1 Corinthians 16:20]; and Peter, with a kiss of charity.