The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to A. D. 325 Volume II - Fathers of the Second Century - Hermas, Tatian, Theophilus, AthenagoAlexander Roberts Cosimo, Inc., 2007 M05 1 - 640 pages "One of the first great events in Christian history was the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened to organize Christian sects and beliefs into a unified doctrine. The great Christian clergymen who wrote before this famous event are referred to as the Ante-Nicenes and the Apostolic Fathers, and their writings are collected here in a ten-volume set. The Ante-Nicenes lived so close to the time of Christ that their interpretations of the New Testament are considered more authentic than modern voices. But they are also real and flawed men, who are more like their fellow Christians than they are like the Apostles, making their words echo in the ears of spiritual seekers. In Volume II of the 10-volume collected works of the Ante-Nicenes first published between 1885 and 1896, readers will find the writings of: the Pastor of Hermas, author of a popular book in the Ante-Nicene era Tatian, a second-century theologian Theophilus, a Christian convert and early apologist Athenagoras, a Christian convert and accomplished philosopher and Clement of Alexandria, who wrote Protrepticus, Paedagogus, and Stromata." |
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Page 65
... Plato , a philosopher , was sold by Dionysius for his gor- mandizing propensities . And Aristotle , who ab- surdly placed a limit to Providence and made happiness to consist in the things which give pleasure , quite contrary to his duty ...
... Plato , a philosopher , was sold by Dionysius for his gor- mandizing propensities . And Aristotle , who ab- surdly placed a limit to Providence and made happiness to consist in the things which give pleasure , quite contrary to his duty ...
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... Plato , an imitation of his , though some think otherwise . And who would give his ap- proval to the cynogamy of Crates , and not rather , repudiating the wild and tumid speech of those who resemble him , turn to the investigation of ...
... Plato , an imitation of his , though some think otherwise . And who would give his ap- proval to the cynogamy of Crates , and not rather , repudiating the wild and tumid speech of those who resemble him , turn to the investigation of ...
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... Plato , and a disciple of Epicurus lifts up his voice to oppose you . Again , you wish to be a disciple of Aristotle , and a follower of Democritus rails at you . Pythagoras says that he was Euphorbus , and he is the heir of the 2 ...
... Plato , and a disciple of Epicurus lifts up his voice to oppose you . Again , you wish to be a disciple of Aristotle , and a follower of Democritus rails at you . Pythagoras says that he was Euphorbus , and he is the heir of the 2 ...
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... Plato and Socrates , and accen- * Book iv . cap . 24. Thus he with others met the " grievous wolves " foretold by St. Paul " night and day with tears , " three years continually ( Acts xx . 29-31 ) . 2 Acts xiii . I. 3 Renan , St Paul ...
... Plato and Socrates , and accen- * Book iv . cap . 24. Thus he with others met the " grievous wolves " foretold by St. Paul " night and day with tears , " three years continually ( Acts xx . 29-31 ) . 2 Acts xiii . I. 3 Renan , St Paul ...
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... Plato's system of culture profit him ? Or what benefit did the rest of the philosophers derive from their doctrines , not to enumerate the whole of them , since they are numerous ? But these things we say , for the purpose of exhibiting ...
... Plato's system of culture profit him ? Or what benefit did the rest of the philosophers derive from their doctrines , not to enumerate the whole of them , since they are numerous ? But these things we say , for the purpose of exhibiting ...
Contents
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ATHENAGORAS A PLEA FOR THE CHRISTIANS | 129 |
THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD | 149 |
THE STROMAta or MisceLLANIES | 299 |
WHO IS THE RICH MAN THAT SHALL BE SAVED? | 591 |
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Page 111 - Who is wise, and he shall understand these things ? prudent, and he shall know them ? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them : but the transgressors shall fall therein.
Page 453 - If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Page 276 - But ye have not so learned Christ ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...
Page 280 - I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Page 104 - And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life...
Page 105 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 103 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 115 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them...
Page 213 - Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like ? They are like unto children sitting in the market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced : we have mourned unto you, and ye have not wept.