Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 2:20

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 663, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Repentance. (HTML)

Examples from Scripture to Prove the Lord's Willingness to Pardon. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8492 (In-Text, Margin)

This if you doubt, unravel the meaning of “what the Spirit saith to the churches.” He imputes to the Ephesians “forsaken love;” reproaches the Thyatirenes with “fornication,” and “eating of things sacrificed to idols;”[Revelation 2:20] accuses the Sardians of “works not full;” censures the Pergamenes for teaching perverse things; upbraids the Laodiceans for trusting to their riches; and yet gives them all general monitions to repentance—under comminations, it is true; but He would not utter comminations to one un repentant if He did not forgive the repentant. The matter were doubtful if He had not withal ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 95, footnote 5 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Modesty. (HTML)

Objections from the Revelation and the First Epistle of St. John Refuted. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 933 (In-Text, Margin)

... the Spirit sends a message that He “hath against him that he kept (in communion) the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophet, and teacheth, and seduceth my servants unto fornicating and eating of idol sacrifice. And I gave her bounteously a space of time, that she might enter upon repentance; nor is she willing to enter upon it on the count of fornication. Behold, I will give her into a bed, and her adulterers with herself into greatest pressure, unless they shall have repented of her works.”[Revelation 2:20-22] I am content with the fact that, between apostles, there is a common agreement in rules of faith and of discipline. For, “Whether (it be) I,” says (Paul), “or they, thus we preach.” Accordingly, it is material to the interest of the whole sacrament ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 333, footnote 1 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Epistles of Cyprian. (HTML)

To Antonianus About Cornelius and Novatian. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2489 (In-Text, Margin)

... for repentance; and the Lord threatens him that does not repent: “I have,” saith He, “many things against thee, because thou sufferest thy wife Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols; and I gave her a space to repent, and she will not repent of her forni cation. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds;”[Revelation 2:20-22] whom certainly the Lord would not exhort to repentance, if it were not that He promises mercy to them that repent. And in the Gospel He says, “I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety ...