Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume II
Overview
These volumes contain works by Hermas, Tatian, Clement of Alexandria, and more.
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Top Highlights
“If, therefore, Plato is not an atheist for conceiving of one uncreated God, the Framer of the universe, neither are we atheists who acknowledge and firmly hold that He is God who has framed all things by the Logos, and holds them in being by His Spirit.” (Page 132)
“Die to the world, repudiating the madness that is in it. Live to God, and by apprehending Him lay aside your old nature.9 We were not created to die, but we die by our own fault.1 Our free-will has destroyed us; we who were free have become slaves; we have been sold through sin. Nothing evil has been created by God; we Ourselves have manifested wickedness; but we, who have manifested it, are able again to reject it.” (Pages 69–70)
“But to us, who distinguish God from matter,1 and teach that matter is one thing and God another, and that they are separated by a wide interval (for that the Deity is uncreated and eternal, to be beheld by the understanding and reason alone, while matter is created and perishable), is it not absurd to apply the name of atheism?” (Page 131)
“But this is the attribute of God, the Highest and Almighty, and the living God, not only to be everywhere present, but also to see all things and to hear all, and by no means to be confined in a place; for if He were, then the place containing Him would be greater than He; for that which contains is greater than that which is contained. For God is not contained, but is Himself the place of all.” (Page 95)
“The Instructor being practical, not theoretical, His aim is thus to improve the soul, not to teach, and to train it up to a virtuous, not to an intellectual life.” (Page 209)
- Title: Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume II
- Editors: Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1885
