Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Thessalonians 1:9

There are 4 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 152, footnote 3 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

An Answer to the Jews. (HTML)

Occasion of Writing. Relative Position of Jews and Gentiles Illustrated. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1138 (In-Text, Margin)

... later times in which kings were governing them, did they again, in conjunction with Jeroboam, worship golden kine, and groves, and enslave themselves to Baal. Whence is proved that they have ever been depicted, out of the volume of the divine Scriptures, as guilty of the crime of idolatry; whereas our “less”—that is, posterior— people, quitting the idols which formerly it used slavishly to serve, has been converted to the same God from whom Israel, as we have above related, had departed.[1 Thessalonians 1:9-10] For thus has the “less”—that is, posterior— people overcome the “greater people,” while it attains the grace of divine favour, from which Israel has been divorced.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 562, footnote 10 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Anti-Marcion. (HTML)

On the Resurrection of the Flesh. (HTML)

Other Passages Quoted from St. Paul, Which Categorically Assert the Resurrection of the Flesh at the Final Judgment. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 7446 (In-Text, Margin)

The character of these times learn, along with the Thessalonians. For we read: “How ye turned from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus.”[1 Thessalonians 1:9-10] And again: “For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord God, Jesus Christ, at His coming?” Likewise: “Before God, even our Father, at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, with the whole company of His saints.” He teaches them that they must “not sorrow concerning them that are asleep,” and at the same time explains to them the times of ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 321, footnote 7 (Image)

Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome

The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret. (HTML)

Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, Bishop of Cyprus. (HTML)

To John the Œconomus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2119 (In-Text, Margin)

... Melchisedec.” And when, writing to the blessed Titus about the second advent he says, “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” And to the Thessalonians he wrote in similar terms “For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how we turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”[1 Thessalonians 1:9-10] And again “And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: to the end he may stablish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 17, footnote 5 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

De Spiritu Sancto. (HTML)

Against those who say that it is not right to rank the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 936 (In-Text, Margin)

... great groaning if we are found now further off from our salvation “than when we first believed,” and deny now what we then received? Whether a man have departed this life without baptism, or have received a baptism lacking in some of the requirements of the tradition, his loss is equal. And whoever does not always and everywhere keep to and hold fast as a sure protection the confession which we recorded at our first admission, when, being delivered “from the idols,” we came “to the living God,”[1 Thessalonians 1:9] constitutes himself a “stranger” from the “promises” of God, fighting against his own handwriting, which he put on record when he professed the faith. For if to me my baptism was the beginning of life, and that day of regeneration the first of days, ...