Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Hebrews 9:22
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 157, footnote 21 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)
Appendix (HTML)
Five Books in Reply to Marcion. (HTML)
Of Marcion's Antitheses. (HTML)
With water mixt the seer[Hebrews 9:19-22] (thus from on high
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 501, footnote 1 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV. (HTML)
Conference XX. Conference of Abbot Pinufius. On the End of Penitence and the Marks of Satisfaction. (HTML)
Chapter VIII. Of the various fruits of penitence. (HTML)
... the Lord, who when He sees the service of pious efforts offered by us with a humble heart, supports our small and puny efforts with the utmost bounty, and says: “I even I am He that blotteth out thine iniquities for Mine own sake, and I will remember thy sins no more.” Whoever then is aiming at this condition, which we have mentioned, will seek the grace of satisfaction by daily fasting and mortification of heart and body, for, as it is written, “Without shedding of blood there is no remission;”[Hebrews 9:22] and this not without good reason. For “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.” And therefore one who would withhold “the sword of the spirit which is the word of God” from this shedding of blood certainly comes under the lash of that ...