Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume VII
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“Those years wherein Satan is bound are in the first advent of Christ, even to the end of the age; and they are called a thousand, according to that mode of speaking, wherein a part is signified by the whole, just as is that passage, ‘the word which He commanded for a thousand generations,’2 although they are not a thousand.” (Page 358)
“I will now say what wise religion, or religious wisdom, is. God, in the beginning, before He made the world, from the fountain of His own eternity, and from the divine and everlasting Spirit,3 begat for Himself a Son incorruptible, faithful, corresponding to His Father’s excellence and majesty. He is virtue, He is reason, He is the word of God, He is wisdom.” (Page 238)
“The Stoics and some others are supposed to have entertained much better sentiments respecting the divine nature, who say that there is kindness in God, but not anger.” (Page 261)
“But every true prophet that willeth to abide among you7 is worthy of his support.8 2 So also a true teacher is himself worthy, as the workman, of his support.9 3 Every first-fruit, therefore, of the products of wine-press and threshing-floor, of oxen and of sheep, thou shalt take and give to the prophets, for they are your high priests.10 4 But if ye have not a prophet, give it to the poor.” (Page 381)
“Peter and Paul do make the following constitutions. Let the slaves work five days; but on the Sabbath-day and the Lord’s day let them have leisure to go to church for instruction in piety. We have said that the Sabbath is on account of the creation, and the Lord’s day of the resurrection.” (Page 495)
- Title: Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume VII
- Editors: Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1886