Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 2:27

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 73, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

On Idolatry. (HTML)

Dress as Connected with Idolatry. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 313 (In-Text, Margin)

... all the powers and dignities of this world are not only alien to, but enemies of, God; that through them punishments have been determined against God’s servants; through them, too, penalties prepared for the impious are ignored. But “both your birth and your substance are troublesome to you in resisting idolatry.” For avoiding it, remedies cannot be lacking; since, even if they be lacking, there remains that one by which you will be made a happier magistrate, not in the earth, but in the heavens.[Revelation 2:26-27]

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 659, footnote 11 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Repentance. (HTML)

Repentance Applicable to All the Kinds of Sin. To Be Practised Not Only, Nor Chiefly, for the Good It Brings, But Because God Commands It. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8446 (In-Text, Margin)

... repentance, O sinner, like myself (nay, rather, less than myself, for pre-eminence in sins I acknowledge to be mine), do you so hasten to, so embrace, as a shipwrecked man the protection of some plank. This will draw you forth when sunk in the waves of sins, and will bear you forward into the port of the divine clemency. Seize the opportunity of unexpected felicity: that you, who sometime were in God’s sight nothing but “a drop of a bucket,” and “dust of the threshing-floor,” and “a potter’s vessel,”[Revelation 2:27] may thenceforward become that “tree which is sown beside the waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own time,” and shall not see “fire,” nor “axe.” Having found “the truth,” repent of errors; repent of having loved what God loves not: ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 18, footnote 23 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pope Damasus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 275 (In-Text, Margin)

... fruitful soil of Rome, when it receives the pure seed of the Lord, bears fruit an hundredfold; but here the seed corn is choked in the furrows and nothing grows but darnel or oats. In the West the Sun of righteousness is even now rising; in the East, Lucifer, who fell from heaven, has once more set his throne above the stars. “Ye are the light of the world,” “ye are the salt of the earth,” ye are “vessels of gold and of silver.” Here are vessels of wood or of earth, which wait for the rod of iron,[Revelation 2:27] and eternal fire.