Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapters 16 to 31 CHAP. XVI.--ABSURD INTERPRETATIONS OF THE MARCOSIANS. Blending in one the production of their own AEons, and the straying and recovery of the sheep [spoken of in the Gospel(1)], these persons endeavour to set forth...
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 1, Chapters 1 to 15 PREFACE. INASMUCH(1) as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says,(2) "minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith," and by...
AMBROSE.[1] A MEMORIAL[2] a which Ambrose, a chief man of Greece, wrote: who became a Christian, and all his fellow-senators raised an outcry against him; and he fled from them, and wrote and pointed out to them all their foolishness. Beginning his discourse,[3] he...
Other Fragments from the Lost Writings of Justin I. THE most admirable Justin rightly declared that the aforesaid demons(1) resembled robbers.--TATIAN'S Address to the Greeks, chap. xviii. II. And Justin well said in his book against Marcion, that he would not have...
Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection CHAP. I.--THE SELF-EVIDENCING POWER OF TRUTH. THE word of truth is free, and carries its own authority, disdaining to fall under any skilful argument, or to endure the logical scrutiny of its hearers. But it...
Justin Martyr on the Sole Government of God: CHAP. I.--OBJECT OF THE AUTHOR. ALTHOUGH human nature at first received a union of intelligence and safety to discern the truth, and the worship due to the one Lord of all, yet envy, insinuating the excellence of human...
Justin Martyr's Hortatory address to the Greeks CHAP. I.-- REASONS FOR ADDRESSING THE GREEKS. As I begin this hortatory address to you, ye men of Greece, I pray God that I may know what I ought to say to you, and that you, shaking off your habitual(1) love of...
THE DISCOURSE TO THE GREEKS CHAP. I.--JUSTIN JUSTIFIES HIS DEPARTURE FROM GREEK CUSTOMS. Do not suppose, ye Greeks, that my separation from your customs is unreasonable and unthinking; for I found in them nothing that is holy or acceptable to God. For the very...
Christ Refers all things to the Father, and other articles (chapters 101 to 142) CHAP. CI.--CHRIST REFERS ALL THINGS TO THE FATHER "Then what follows of the Psalm is this, in which He says: 'Our fathers trusted in Thee; they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them. They...
CHAP. LI.--IT IS PROVED THAT THIS PROPHECY HAS BEEN FULFILLED. And when I ceased, Trypho said, "All the words of the prophecy you repeat, sir, are ambiguous, and have no force in proving what you wish to prove." Then I answered, "If the prophets had not ceased, so...