Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Colossians 1:2

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 456, footnote 2 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

On the Lord's Prayer. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3388 (In-Text, Margin)

... against the enemy; this is, when you pray to God, to offend the majesty of God by the carelessness of your prayer; this is to be watchful with your eyes, and to be asleep with your heart, while the Christian, even though he is asleep with his eyes, ought to be awake with his heart, as it is written in the person of the Church speaking in the Song of Songs, “I sleep, yet my heart waketh.” Wherefore the apostle anxiously and carefully warns us, saying, “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same;”[Colossians 1:2] teaching, that is, and showing that those are able to obtain from God what they ask, whom God sees to be watchful in their prayer.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 12, page 419, footnote 1 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on First and Second Corinthians

Homilies on Second Corinthians. (HTML)

Homily XXX (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1056 (In-Text, Margin)

... speech with prayer, with much carefulness uniting them unto God also. Where now are they who say that because the Holy Spirit is not inserted in the beginnings of the Epistles, He is not of the same substance? For, behold, he hath now enumerated Him with the Father and Son. And besides this, one may remark, that when writing to the Colossians and saying, “Grace to you, and peace from God our Father,” he was silent of the Son, and added not, as in all his Epistles, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.[Colossians 1:2] Is then the Son not of the same substance either, because of this? Nay, these reasonings are of extreme folly. For this very thing especially shows Him to be of the same substance, that Paul useth the expression [or not] indifferently. And that what ...