Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 6:8

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 98, footnote 4 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Modesty. (HTML)

From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of the Apostles, and of the Law. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 961 (In-Text, Margin)

... the house to be plastered with other mortar. For, in coming to the High Priest of the Father—Christ—all impediments must first be taken away, in the space of a week, that the house which remains, the flesh and the soul, may be clean; and when the Word of God has entered it, and has found “stains of red and green,” forthwith must the deadly and sanguinary passions “be extracted” and “cast away” out of doors—for the Apocalypse withal has set “death” upon a “green horse,” but a “warrior” upon a “red”[Revelation 6:8] —and in their stead must be under-strewn stones polished and apt for conjunction, and firm,—such as are made (by God) into (sons) of Abraham, —that thus the man may be fit for God. But if, after the recovery and reformation, the priest again ...

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