Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Hebrews 13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 347, footnote 5 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

Treatises. (HTML)

Against Jovinianus. (HTML)

Book I (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4264 (In-Text, Margin)

... nor, deceived by the error of Tatian, the leader of the Encratites, do we think all intercourse impure; he condemns and rejects not only marriage but also food which God created for the use of man. We know that in a great house, there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and earthenware. And that upon the foundation, Christ, which Paul the master-builder laid, some build gold, silver, precious stones: others, on the contrary, hay, wood, straw. We are not ignorant of the words,[Hebrews 13] “Marriage is honourable among all, and the bed undefiled.” We have read God’s first command, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth”; but while we honour marriage we prefer virginity which is the offspring of marriage. Will silver cease ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 325, footnote 5 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The Fifth Theological Oration. On the Holy Spirit. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3729 (In-Text, Margin)

XXV. There have been in the whole period of the duration of the world two conspicuous changes of men’s lives, which are also called two Testaments, or, on account of the wide fame of the matter, two Earthquakes; the one from idols to the Law, the other from the Law to the Gospel. And we are taught in the Gospel of a third earthquake, namely, from this Earth to that which cannot be shaken or moved.[Hebrews 13] Now the two Testaments are alike in this respect, that the change was not made on a sudden, nor at the first movement of the endeavour. Why not (for this is a point on which we must have information)? That no violence might be done to us, but that we might be moved by persuasion. For nothing that ...