Early Church Fathers
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9
Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe · AD 95–325 (English edition 1885–96)
Tatian’s Diatessaron (a second-century harmony of the four Gospels), the Apology of Aristides, Origen’s commentaries on John and Matthew, and apocryphal texts such as the Gospel of Peter.
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Contents
The Gospel of Peter3 pages
Introductory Notes58 pages
- 1. In the Borgian Ms
- The Text of the Diatessaron
- Section II
- Section III
- Section IV
- Section V
- Section VI
- Section VII
- Section VIII
- Section IX
- Section X
- Section XI
- Section XII
- Section XIII
- Section XIV
- Section XV
- Section XVI
- Section XVII
- Section XVIII
- Section XIX
- Section XX
- Section XXI
- Section XXII
- Section XXIII
- Section XXIV
- Section XXV
- Section XXVI
- Section XXVII
- Section XXVIII
- Section XXIX
- Section XXX
- Section XXXI
- Section XXXII
- Section XXXIII
- Section XXXIV
- Section XXXV
- Section XXXVI
- Section XXXVII
- Section XXXVIII
- Section XXXIX
- Section XL
- Section XLI
- Section XLII
- Section XLIII
- Section XLIV
- Section XLV
- Section XLVI
- Section XLVII
- Section XLVIII
- Section XLIX
- Section L
- Section LI
- Section LII
- Section LIII
- Section LIV
- Section LV
- Subscriptions
- The Apocalypse of Peter
The Revelation of Peter3 pages
The Apocalypse of the Virgin2 pages
The Testament of Abraham, The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, The Narrative of Zosimus
The Testament of Abraham2 pages
The Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena
The Narrative of Zosimus
The Epistles of Clement3 pages
The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians66 pages
- Chapter I.—The Salutation. Praise of the Corinthians Before the Breaking Forth of Schism Among Them
- Chapter II.—Praise of the Corinthians Continued
- Chapter III.—The Sad State of the Corinthian Church After Sedition Arose in It from Envy and Emulation
- Chapter IV.—Many Evils Have Already Flowed from This Source in Ancient Times
- Chapter V.—No Less Evils Have Arisen from the Same Source in the Most Recent Times. The Martyrdom of Peter and Paul
- Chapter VI.—Continuation. Several Other Martyrs
- Chapter VII.—An Exhortation to Repentance
- Chapter VIII.—Continuation Respecting Repentance
- Chapter IX.—Examples of the Saints
- Chapter X.—Continuation of the Above
- Chapter XI.—Continuation. Lot
- Chapter XII.—The Rewards of Faith and Hospitality. Rahab
- Chapter XIII.—An Exhortation to Humility
- Chapter XIV.—We Should Obey God Rather Than the Authors of Sedition
- Chapter XV.—We Must Adhere to Those Who Cultivate Peace, Not to Those Who Merely Pretend to Do So
- Chapter XVI.—Christ as an Example of Humility
- Chapter XVII.—The Saints as Examples of Humility
- Chapter XVIII.—David as an Example of Humility
- Chapter XIX.—Imitating These Examples, Let Us Seek After Peace
- Chapter XX.—The Peace and Harmony of the Universe
- Chapter XXI.—Let Us Obey God, and Not the Authors of Sedition
- Chapter XXII.—These Exhortations are Confirmed by the Christian Faith, Which Proclaims the Misery of Sinful Conduct
- Chapter XXIII.—Be Humble, and Believe that Christ Will Come Again
- Chapter XXIV.—God Continually Shows Us in Nature that There Will Be a Resurrection
- Chapter XXV.—The Phoenix an Emblem of Our Resurrection
- Chapter XXVI.—We Shall Rise Again, Then, as the Scripture Also Testifies
- Chapter XXVII.—In the Hope of the Resurrection, Let Us Cleave to the Omnipotent and Omniscient God
- Chapter XXVIII.—God Sees All Things: Therefore Let Us Avoid Transgression
- Chapter XXIX.—Let Us Also Draw Near to God in Purity of Heart
- Chapter XXX.—Let Us Do Those Things that Please God, and Flee from Those He Hates, that We May Be Blessed
- Chapter XXXI.—Let Us See by What Means We May Obtain the Divine Blessing
- Chapter XXXII.—We are Justified Not by Our Own Works, But by Faith
- Chapter XXXIII.—But Let Us Not Give Up the Practice of Good Works and Love. God Himself is an Example to Us of Good Works
- Chapter XXXIV.—Great is the Reward of Good Works with God. Joined Together in Harmony, Let Us Implore that Reward from Him
- Chapter XXXV.—Immense is This Reward. How Shall We Obtain It?
- Chapter XXXVI.—All Blessings are Given to Us Through Christ
- Chapter XXXVII.—Christ is Our Leader, and We His Soldiers
- Chapter XXXVIII.—Let the Members of the Church Submit Themselves, and No One Exalt Himself Above Another
- Chapter XXXIX.—There is No Reason for Self-Conceit
- Chapter XL.—Let Us Preserve in the Church the Order Appointed by God
- Chapter XLI.—Continuation of the Same Subject
- Chapter XLII.—The Order of Ministers in the Church
- Chapter XLIII.—Moses of Old Stilled the Contention Which Arose Concerning the Priestly Dignity
- Chapter XLIV.—The Ordinances of the Apostles, that There Might Be No Contention Respecting the Priestly Office
- Chapter XLV.—It is the Part of the Wicked to Vex the Righteous
- Chapter XLVI.—Let Us Cleave to the Righteous: Your Strife is Pernicious
- Chapter XLVII.—Your Recent Discord is Worse Than the Former Which Took Place in the Times of Paul
- Chapter XLVIII.—Let Us Return to the Practice of Brotherly Love
- Chapter XLIX—The Praise of Love
- Chapter L.—Let Us Pray to Be Thought Worthy of Love
- Chapter LI.—Let the Partakers in Strife Acknowledge Their Sins
- Chapter LII.—Such a Confession is Pleasing to God
- Chapter LIII.—The Love of Moses Towards His People
- Chapter LIV.—He Who is Full of Love Will Incur Every Loss, that Peace May Be Restored to the Church
- Chapter LV.—Examples of Such Love
- Chapter LVI.—Let Us Admonish and Correct One Another
- Chapter LVII.—Let the Authors of Sedition Submit Themselves
- Chapter LVIII.—Submission the Precursor of Salvation
- Chapter LIX.—Warning Against Disobedience. Prayer
- Chapter LX.—Prayer Continued
- Chapter LXI.—Prayer Continued—For Rulers and Governors. Conclusion
- Chapter LXII.—Summary and Conclusory—Concerning Godliness
- Chapter LXIII.—Hortatory, Letter Sent by Special Messengers
- Chapter LXIV.—Blessings Sought for All that Call Upon God
- Chapter LXV.—The Corinthians are Exhorted Speedily to Send Back Word that Peace Has Been Restored. The Benediction
- Introductory Notice
The Second Epistle of Clement20 pages
- Chapter I.—We Ought to Think Highly of Christ
- Chapter II.—The Church, Formerly Barren, is Now Fruitful
- Chapter III.—The Duty of Confessing Christ
- Chapter IV.—True Confession of Christ
- Chapter V.—This World Should Be Despised
- Chapter VI.—The Present and Future Worlds are Enemies to Each Other
- Chapter VII.—We Must Strive in Order to Be Crowned
- Chapter VIII.—The Necessity of Repentance While We are on Earth
- Chapter IX.—We Shall Be Judged in the Flesh
- Chapter X.—Vice is to Be Forsaken, and Virtue Followed
- Chapter XI.—We Ought to Serve God, Trusting in His Promises
- Chapter XII.—We are Constantly to Look for the Kingdom of God
- Chapter XIII.—God's Name Not to Be Blasphemed
- Chapter XIV.—The Church Spiritual
- Chapter XV.—He Who Saves and He Who is Saved
- Chapter XVI.—Preparation for the Day of Judgment
- Chapter XVII.—Same Subject Continued
- Chapter XVIII.—The Author Sinful, Yet Pursuing
- Chapter XIX.—Reward of the Righteous, Although They May Suffer
- Chapter XX.—Godliness, Not Gain, the True Riches
The Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs
Commentaries of Origen2 pages
Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John142 pages
- Book I
- 2. The 144,000 Sealed in the Apocalypse are Converts to Christ from the Gentile World
- 3. In the Spiritual Israel the High-Priests are Those Who Devote Themselves to the Study of Scripture
- 4. The Study of the Gospels is the First Fruits Offered by These Priests of Christianity
- 5. All Scripture is Gospel; But the Gospels are Distinguished Above Other Scriptures
- 6. The Fourfold Gospel. John's the First Fruits of the Four. Qualifications Necessary for Interpreting It
- 7. What Good Things are Announced in the Gospels
- 8. How the Gospels Cause the Other Books of Scripture Also to Be Gospel
- 9. The Somatic and the Spiritual Gospel
- 10. How Jesus Himself is the Gospel
- 11. Jesus is All Good Things; Hence the Gospel is Manifold
- 12. The Gospel Contains the Ill Deeds Also Which Were Done to Jesus
- 13. The Angels Also are Evangelists
- 14. The Old Testament, Typified by John, is the Beginning of the Gospel
- 15. The Gospel is in the Old Testament, and Indeed in the Whole Universe. Prayer for Aid to Understand the Mystical Sense of the Work in Hand
- 16. Meaning of "Beginning." (1) in Space
- 17. (2) in Time. The Beginning of Creation
- 18. (3) of Substance
- 19. (4) of Type and Copy
- 20. (5) of Elements and What is Formed from Them
- 21. (6) of Design and Execution
- 22. The Word Was in the Beginning, I.e., in Wisdom, Which Contained All Things in Idea, Before They Existed. Christ's Character as Wisdom is Prior to His Other Characters
- 23. The Title "Word" Is to Be Interpreted by the Same Method as the Other Titles of Christ. The Word of God is Not a Mere Attribute of God, But a Separate Person. What is Meant When He is Called the Word
- 24. Christ as Light; How He, and How His Disciples are the Light of the World
- 25. Christ as the Resurrection
- 26. Christ as the Way
- 27. Christ as the Truth
- 28. Christ as Life
- 29. Christ as the Door and as the Shepherd
- 30. Christ as Anointed (Christ) and as King
- 31. Christ as Teacher and Master
- 32. Christ as Son
- 33. Christ the True Vine, and as Bread
- 34. Christ as the First and the Last; He is Also What Lies Between These
- 35. Christ as the Living and the Dead
- 36. Christ as a Sword
- 37. Christ as a Servant, as the Lamb of God, and as the Man Whom John Did Not Know
- 38. Christ as Paraclete, as Propitiation, and as the Power of God
- 39. Christ as Wisdom and Sanctification and Redemption
- 40. Christ as Righteousness; As the Demiurge, the Agent of the Good God, and as High-Priest
- 41. Christ as the Rod, the Flower, the Stone
- 42. Of the Various Ways in Which Christ is the Logos
- Book II
- 2. In What Way the Logos is God. Errors to Be Avoided on This Question
- 3. Various Relations of the Logos to Men
- 4. That the Logos is One, Not Many. Of the Word, Faithful and True, and of His White Horse
- 5. He (This One) Was in the Beginning with God
- 6. How the Word is the Maker of All Things, and Even the Holy Spirit Was Made Through Him
- 7. Of Things Not Made Through the Logos
- 8. Heracleon's View that the Logos is Not the Agent of Creation
- 9. That the Logos Present in Us is Not Responsible for Our Sins
- 10. "That Which Was Made Was Life in Him, and the Life Was the Light of Men." This Involves the Paradox that What Does Not Derive Life from the Logos Does Not Live at All
- 11. How No One is Righteous or Can Truly Be Said to Live in Comparison with God
- 12. Is the Saviour All That He Is, to All?
- 13. How the Life in the Logos Comes After the Beginning
- 14. How the Natures of Men are Not So Fixed from the First, But that They May Pass from Darkness to Light
- 15. Heracleon's View that the Lord Brought Life Only to the Spiritual. Refutation of This
- 16. The Life May Be the Light of Others Besides
- 17. The Higher Powers are Men; And Christ is Their Light Also
- 18. How God Also is Light, But in a Different Way; And How Life Came Before Light
- 19. The Life Here Spoken of is the Higher Life, that of Reason
- 20. Different Kinds of Light; And of Darkness
- 21. Christ is Not, Like God, Quite Free from Darkness: Since He Bore Our Sins
- 22. How the Darkness Failed to Overtake the Light
- 23. There is a Divine Darkness Which is Not Evil, and Which Ultimately Becomes Light
- 24. John the Baptist Was Sent. From Where? His Soul Was Sent from a Higher Region
- 25. Argument from the Prayer of Joseph, to Show that the Baptist May Have Been an Angel Who Became a Man
- 26. John is Voice, Jesus is Speech. Relation of These Two to Each Other
- 27. Significance of the Names of John and of His Parents
- 28. The Prophets Bore Witness to Christ and Foretold Many Things Concerning Him
- 29. The Six Testimonies of the Baptist Enumerated. Jesus' "Come and See." Significance of the Tenth Hour
- 30. How John Was a Witness of Christ, and Specially of "The Light."
- Fragments of the Fourth Book
- From the Fifth Book
- 2. How Scripture Warns Us Against Making Many Books
- 3. The Apostles Wrote Little
- Sixth Book
- 2. How the Prophets and Holy Men of the Old Testament Knew the Things of Christ
- 3. "Grace and Truth Came Through Jesus Christ." These Words Belong to the Baptist, Not the Evangelist. What the Baptist Testifies by Them
- 4. John Denies that He is Elijah or "The" Prophet. Yet He Was "A" Prophet
- 5. There Were Two Embassies to John the Baptist; The Different Characters of These
- 6. Messianic Discussion with John the Baptist
- 7. Of the Birth of John, and of His Alleged Identity with Elijah. Of the Doctrine of Transcorporation
- 8. John is a Prophet, But Not the Prophet
- 9. John I. 22
- 10. Of the Voice John the Baptist is
- 11. Of the Way of the Lord, How It is Narrow, and How Jesus is the Way
- 12. Heracleon's View of the Voice, and of John the Baptist
- 13. John I. 24, 25. Of the Baptism of John, that of Elijah, and that of Christ
- 14. Comparison of the Statements of the Four Evangelists Respecting John the Baptist, the Prophecies Regarding Him, His Addresses to the Multitude and to the Pharisees, Etc
- 15. How the Baptist Answers the Question of the Pharisees and Exalts the Nature of Christ. Of the Shoe-Latchet Which He is Unable to Untie
- 16. Comparison of John's Testimony to Jesus in the Different Gospels
- 18. Of the Testimony in Mark. What is Meant by the Saviour's Shoes and by Untying His Shoe-Latchets
- 19. Luke and John Suggest that One May Loose the Shoe-Latchets of the Logos Without Stooping Down
- 20. The Difference Between Not Being "Sufficient" And Not Being "Worthy."
- 21. The Fourth Gospel Speaks of Only One Shoe, the Others of Both. The Significance of This
- 22. How the Word Stands in the Midst of Men Without Being Known of Them
- 23. Heracleon's View of This Utterance of John the Baptist, and Interpretation of the Shoe of Jesus
- 25. Jordan Means "Their Going Down." Spiritual Meanings and Application of This
- 26. The Story of Israel Crossing Jordan Under Joshua is Typical of Christian Things, and is Written for Our Instruction
- 27. Of Elijah and Elisha Crossing the Jordan
- 28. Naaman the Syrian and the Jordan. No Other Stream Has the Same Healing Power
- 29. The River of Egypt and Its Dragon, Contrasted with the Jordan
- 30. Of What John Learned from Jesus When Mary Visited Elisabeth in the Hill Country
- 31. Of the Conversation Between John and Jesus at the Baptism, Recorded by Matthew Only
- 32. John Calls Jesus a "Lamb." Why Does He Name This Animal Specially? Of the Typology of the Sacrifices, Generally
- 33. A Lamb Was Offered at the Morning and Evening Sacrifice. Significance of This
- 34. The Morning and Evening Sacrifices of the Saint in His Life of Thought
- 35. Jesus is a Lamb in Respect of His Human Nature
- 36. Of the Death of the Martyrs Considered as a Sacrifice, and in What Way It Operates to the Benefit of Others
- 37. Of the Effects of the Death of Christ, of His Triumph After It, and of the Removal by His Death of the Sins of Men
- 38. The World, of Which the Sin is Taken Away, is Said to Be the Church. Reasons for Not Agreeing with This Opinion
- Tenth Book
- 2. The Discrepancy Between John and the First Three Gospels at This Part of the Narrative, Literally Read, the Narratives Cannot Be Harmonized: They Must Be Interpreted Spiritually
- 3. What We are to Think of the Discrepancies Between the Different Gospels
- 4. Scripture Contains Many Contradictions, and Many Statements Which are Not Literally True, But Must Be Read Spiritually and Mystically
- 5. Paul Also Makes Contradictory Statements About Himself, and Acts in Opposite Ways at Different Times
- 6. Different Accounts of the Call of Peter, and of the Imprisonment of the Baptist. The Meaning of "Capernaum."
- 7. Why His Brothers are Not Called to the Wedding; And Why He Abides at Capernaum Not Many Days
- 8. How Christ Abides with Believers to the End of the Age, and Whether He Abides with Them After that Consummation
- 9. Heracleon Says that Jesus is Not Stated to Have Done Anything at Capernaum. But in the Other Gospels He Does Many Things There
- 10. Significance of Capernaum
- 11. Why the Passover is Said to Be that of the "Jews." Its Institution: and the Distinction Between "Feasts of the Lord" And Feasts Not So Spoken of
- 12. Of the Heavenly Festivals, of Which Those on Earth are Typical
- 13. Spiritual Meaning of the Passover
- 14. In the First Three Gospels the Passover is Spoken of Only at the Close of the Ministry; In John at the Beginning. Remarks on This. Heracleon on the Passover
- 15. Discrepancy of the Gospel Narratives Connected with the Cleansing of the Temple
- 16. The Story of the Purging of the Temple Spiritualized. Taken Literally, It Presents Some Very Difficult and Unlikely Features
- 17. Matthew's Story of the Entry into Jerusalem. Difficulties Involved in It for Those Who Take It Literally
- 18. The Ass and the Colt are the Old and the New Testament. Spiritual Meaning of the Various Features of the Story. Differences Between John's Narrative and that of the Other Evangelists
- 19. Various Views of Heracleon on Purging of the Temple
- 20. The Temple Which Christ Says He Will Raise Up is the Church. How the Dry Bones Will Be Made to Live Again
- 21. That the Son Was Raised Up by the Father. The Charge Brought Against Jesus at His Trial Was Based on the Incident Now Before Us
- 22. The Temple of Solomon Did Not Take Forty-Six Years to Build. With Regard to that of Ezra We Cannot Tell How Long It Took. Significance of the Number Forty-Six
- 23. The Temple Spoken of by Christ is the Church. Application to the Church of the Statements Regarding the Building of Solomon's Temple, and the Numbers Stated in that Narrative
- 24. The Account of the Building of Solomon's Temple Contains Serious Difficulties and is to Be Interpreted Spiritually
- 25. Further Spiritualizing of Solomon's Temple-Building
- 26. The Promises Addressed to Jerusalem in the Prophets Refer to the Church, and are Still to Be Fulfilled
- 27. Of the Belief the Disciples Afterwards Attained in the Words of Jesus
- 28. The Difference Between Believing in the Name of Jesus and Believing in Jesus Himself
- 29. About What Beings Jesus Needed Testimony
- 30. How Jesus Knew the Powers, Better or Worse, Which Reside in Man
Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
Commentary on Matthew2 pages
From the Second Book of the Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew144 pages
- Book II
- Book X
- 2. Exposition of the Parable
- 3. The Shining of the Righteous. Its Interpretation
- 4. Concerning the Parable of the Treasure Hidden in the Field. The Parable Distinguished from the Similitude
- 5. The Field and the Treasure Interpreted
- 6. The Exposition Continued
- 7. The Parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The Formation and Difference of Pearls
- 8. The Parable Interpreted is the Light of These Views
- 9. Christ the Pearl of Great Price
- 10. The Pearl of the Gospel in Relation to the Old Testament
- 11. The Parable of the Drag-Net
- 12. The Divine Scriptures Compared to a Net
- 13. Relation of Men to Angels
- 14. The Disciples as Scribes
- 15. The Householder and His Treasury
- 16. Parables in Relation to Similitudes. Jesus in His Own Country
- 17. The Brethren of Jesus
- 18. Prophets in Their Country
- 19. Relation of Faith and Unbelief to the Supernatural Powers of Jesus
- 20. Different Conceptions of John the Baptist
- 21. Herod and the Baptist
- 22. The Dancing of Herodias. The Keeping of Oaths
- 23. The Withdrawal of Jesus
- 24. The Diverse Forms of Spiritual Sickness
- 25. Healing Precedes Participation in the Loaves of Jesus
- Book XI
- 2. Exposition of the Details of the Miracle
- 3. The Exposition of Details Continued. The Sitting Down on the Grass. The Division into Companies
- 4. The Multitudes and the Disciples Contrasted
- 5. The Disciples in Conflict. Jesus Walks Upon the Waters
- 6. Interpretation of the Details in the Narrative. Application Thereof to All Disciples
- 7. The Healing of the Sick on the Other Side. The Method of Healing
- 8. Concerning the Pharisees and Scribes Who Came and Inquired, Why Do Thy Disciples Transgress the Tradition of the Elders?
- 9. Explanation of "Corban."
- 10. The Traditions of the Elders in Collision with Divine Law
- 11. Exposition of the Prophecy of Isaiah Quoted by Jesus
- 12. Things Clean and Unclean According to the Law and the Gospel
- 13. The Offence of the Pharisees
- 14. Why the Pharisees Were Not a Plant of God. Teaching of Origen on the "Bread of the Lord."
- 15. Eating with Unwashed Heart Defiles the Man
- 16. Concerning the Canaanitish Woman. Meaning of the "Borders of Tyre and Sidon."
- 17. Exposition of the Details in the Narrative
- 18. Concerning the Multitudes Who Were Healed. Comparison of the Mountain Where Jesus Sat to the Church
- 19. Concerning the Seven Loaves. The Narrative of the Feeding of the Four Thousand Compared with that of the Five Thousand
- Book XII
- 2. Why the Pharisees Asked a Sign from Heaven
- 3. The Answer of Jesus to Their Request
- 4. Why Jesus Called Them an Adulterous Generation. The Law as Husband
- 5. Concerning the Leaven of the Pharisees
- 6. The Meaning of Leaven. Jesus' Knowledge of the Heart
- 7. Relative Magnitude of Sins of the Heart and Actual Sins
- 8. The Leaven Figurative Like the Water Spoken of by Jesus to the Woman of Samaria
- 9. Concerning the Question of Jesus in Cæsarea, Who Do Men Say that I Am? Different Conceptions of Jesus
- 10. The Answer of Peter
- 11. The Promise Given to Peter Not Restricted to Him, But Applicable to All Disciples Like Him
- 12. Every Sin—Every False Doctrine is a "Gate of Hades."
- 13. The "Gates of Hades" And the "Gates of Zion" Contrasted
- 14. In What Sense the "Keys" Are Given to Peter, and Every Peter. Limitations of This Power
- 15. Relation of the Former Commission Given by Jesus to the Disciples, to His Present Injunction of Silence. Belief and Knowledge Contrasted
- 16. Gradual Growth in Knowledge of the Disciples
- 17. Reasons for that Gradual Knowledge
- 18. Jesus Was at First Proclaimed by the Twelve as a Worker and a Teacher Only
- 19. Importance of the Proclamation of Jesus as the Crucified
- 20. Why Jesus Had to Go to Jerusalem
- 21. The Rebuke of Peter and the Answer of Jesus
- 22. Importance of the Expressions "Behind" And "Turned."
- 23. Peter as a Stumbling-Block to Jesus
- 24. Self-Denial and Cross-Bearing
- 25. Reference to the Saying of Paul About Crucifixion with Christ
- 26. The Less of Life; And the Saving of It
- 27. Life Lost to the World is Saved
- 28. The Exchange for One's Life
- 29. The Coming of the Son of Man in Glory
- 30. The Word Appears in Different Forms; The Time of His Coming in Glory
- 31. The Simpler Interpretation of the Promise About Not Tasting of Death
- 32. Standing by the Saviour
- 33. Interpretation of "Tasting of Death."
- 34. Meaning of "Until." No Limitation of Promise
- 35. Scriptural References to Death
- 36. Concerning the Transfiguration of the Saviour
- 37. Force of the Words "Before Them."
- 38. The Garments White as the Light
- 39. Jesus Was Transfigured—"As He Was Praying."
- 40. Discussion of the Saying of Peter
- 41. Figurative Interpretation of the Same
- 42. The Meaning of the "Bright Cloud."
- 43. Relation of Moses and Elijah to Jesus. The Injunction of Silence
- Book XIII
- 2. "The Spirit and Power of Elijah"—Not the Soul—Were in the Baptist
- 3. Concerning the Epileptic
- 4. Spiritual Epileptics
- 5. The Deaf and Dumb Spirit
- 6. Influence of the Moon and Stars on Men
- 7. The Power of Faith
- 8. Jesus' Prediction of His "Delivery" Into the Hands of Men
- 9. Satan and the "Delivery" Of Jesus
- 10. Concerning Those Who Demanded the Half-Shekel
- 11. The Freedom of Sons
- 12. The Stater Allegorized
- 13. The Sacred Half-Shekel
- 14. Concerning Those Who Said, Who is the Greatest? and Concerning the Child that Was Called by Jesus
- 15. Greatness Varies in Degree
- 16. Why the Great are Compared to Little Children
- 17. The Little Ones and Their Stumbling-Blocks
- 18. Who Was the Little Child Called by Jesus
- 19. The Parallel Passages in Mark and Luke
- 20. The World and Offences. Various Meanings of World
- 21. The "Woe" Does Not Apply to the Disciples of Jesus
- 22. What the "Occasions of Stumbling" Are
- 23. In What Sense "Necessary."
- 24. The Offending Hand, or Foot, or Eye
- 25. The Eye or Hand Allegorized
- 26. The Little Ones and Their Angels
- 27. When the Little Ones are Assigned to Angels
- 28. Close Relationship of Angels to Their "Little Ones."
- 29. The Little Ones and the Perfect
- 30. The Sinning Brother
- 31. The Power to Bind on Earth and in Heaven
- Book XIV
- 2. The Harmony of Husband and Wife
- 3. The Harmony of Body, Soul, and Spirit
- 4. Harmony of the Old and New Covenants
- 5. The Limit of Forgiveness
- 6. Concerning the King Who Made a Reckoning with His Own Servants, to Whom Was Brought a Man Who Owed Ten Thousand Talents
- 7. Exposition Continued: the King and the Servants
- 8. The Principle of the Reckoning
- 9. The Time Occupied by the Reckoning
- 10. The Man Who Owed Many Talents
- 11. The Servant Who Owed a Hundred Pence
- 12. The Time of the Reckoning
- 13. No Forgiveness to the Unforgiving
- 14. How Jesus Finished His Words
- 15. How Men Followed Jesus
- 16. Concerning the Pharisees and Scribes Tempting Jesus (by Asking) Whether Was Lawful for a Man to Put Away His Wife for Every Cause
- 17. Union of Christ and the Church
- 18. The Bill of Divorcement
- 19. The Divorce of Israel
- 20. Christ and the Gentiles
- 21. Union of Angels and the Souls of Men
- 22. The Marriage of Church Dignitaries
- 23. Some Laws Given by Concession to Human Weakness
- 24. Jewish Criticism of the Law of Christ
- 25. Chastity and Prayer
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.