Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Peter 2:12

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 536, footnote 14 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. (HTML)

Book III. (HTML)

That he who has attained to trust, having put off the former man, ought to regard only celestial and spiritual things, and to give no heed to the world which he has already renounced. (HTML)CCEL Footnote 4261 (In-Text, Margin)

... conversation, who is corrupted, according to the lusts of deceit. But be ye renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, him who according to God is ordained in righteousness, and holiness, and truth.” Of this same thing in the Epistle of Peter: “As strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; but having a good conversation among the Gentiles, that while they detract from you as if from evildoers, yet, beholding your good works, they may magnify God.”[2 Peter 2:11-12] Of this same thing in the Epistle of John: “He who saith he abideth in Christ, ought himself also to walk even as He walked.” Also in the same place: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loveth the world, the ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 145, footnote 14 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Apocalypse of Peter. (HTML)

The Apocalypse of Peter. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3890 (In-Text, Margin)

21. And there were certain there hanging by the tongue: and these were the blasphemers of the way of righteousness; and under them lay fire,[2 Peter 2:12] burning and punishing them.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 290, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

On Marriage and Concupiscence. (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Original Sin is Derived from the Faulty Condition of Human Seed. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2240 (In-Text, Margin)

... beginning, unless it be in respect of the fact, that “by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for in him all have sinned”? But where is the man whose “evil cogitation can never be changed,” unless because it cannot be effected by himself, but only by divine grace; without the assistance of which, what are human beings, but that which the Apostle Peter says of them, when he describes them as “natural brute beasts made to be taken and destroyed”?[2 Peter 2:12] Accordingly, the Apostle Paul, in a certain passage, having both conditions in view,—even the wrath of God with which we are born, and the grace whereby we are delivered,—says: “Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts ...