Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Hebrews 12:24

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 27, footnote 4 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On the Veiling of Virgins. (HTML)

Truth Rather to Be Appealed to Than Custom, and Truth Progressive in Its Developments. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 278 (In-Text, Margin)

... Holy Spirit. “Still,” He said, “I have many things to say to you, but ye are not yet able to bear them: when that Spirit of truth shall have come, He will conduct you into all truth, and will report to you the supervening (things).” But above, withal, He made a declaration concerning this His work. What, then, is the Paraclete’s administrative office but this: the direction of discipline, the revelation of the Scriptures, the reformation of the intellect, the advancement toward the “better things?”[Hebrews 12:24] Nothing is without stages of growth: all things await their season. In short, the preacher says, “A time to everything.” Look how creation itself advances little by little to fructification. First comes the grain, and from the grain arises the ...