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CHURCH FATHERS: The Prescription Against Heretics (Tertullian)
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Chapter 36
Come now, you who would indulge a better curiosity, if you would apply it to the business of your
salvation, run over the apostolic churches, in which the very thrones of the apostles are still preeminent
in their places, in which their own authentic writings are read, uttering the voice and
representing the face of each of them severally. Achaia is very near you, (in which) you find
Corinth. Since you are not far from Macedonia, you have Philippi; (and there too) you have the
Thessalonians. Since you are able to cross to Asia, you get Ephesus. Since, moreover, you are close
upon Italy, you have Rome, from which there comes even into our own hands the very authority (of
apostles themselves). How happy is its church, on which apostles poured forth all their doctrine
along with their blood! Where Peter endures a passion like his Lord's! Where Paul wins his crown
in a death like John's where the Apostle John was first plunged, unhurt, into boiling oil, and thence
remitted to his island-exile! See what she has learned, what taught, what fellowship has had with
even (our) churches in Africa! One Lord God does she acknowledge, the Creator of the universe,
and Christ Jesus (born) of the Virgin Mary, the Son of God the Creator; and the Resurrection of the
flesh; the law and the prophets she unites in one volume with the writings of evangelists and
apostles, from which she drinks in her faith. This she seals with the water (of baptism), arrays with
the Holy Ghost, feeds with the Eucharist, cheers with martyrdom, and against such a discipline thus
(maintained) she admits no gainsayer. This is the discipline which I no longer say foretold that
heresies should come, but from which they proceeded. However, they were not of her, because they
were opposed to her.
Even the rough wild-olive arises from the germ of the fruitful, rich, and
genuine olive; also from the seed of the mellowest and sweetest fig there springs the empty and
useless wild-fig. In the same way heresies, too, come from our plant, although not of our kind; (they
come) from the grain of truth, but, owing to their falsehood, they have only wild leaves to show.
ORIGEN OF ALEXANDRIA (c. 184 – c. 253)
Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Book XIII)
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/101613.htm
Chapter 31
But since it was necessary, even if something in common had been said in the case of Peter and
those who had thrice admonished the brethren, that Peter should have some element superior to
those who thrice admonished, in the case of Peter, this saying "I will give to you the keys of the
kingdom of the heavens," Matthew 16:19 has been specially set before the words, "And whatever
things you shall bind on earth," etc. And, indeed, if we were to attend carefully to the evangelical
writings, we would also find here, and in relation to those things which seem to be common to Peter
and those who have thrice admonished the brethren, a great difference and a pre-eminence in the
things said to Peter, compared with the second class. For it is no small difference that Peter received
the keys not of one heaven but of more, and in order that whatsoever things he binds on the earth
may be bound not in one heaven but in them all, as compared with the many who bind on earth and
loose on earth, so that these things are bound and loosed not in the heavens, as in the case of Peter,
but in one only; for they do not reach so high a stage, with power as Peter to bind and loose in all
the heavens.
CHURCH FATHERS: Commentary on Matthew, Book XIII (Origen)
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Commentary on the Gospel of John (Book V)
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Section 3
And Peter, on whom the Church of Christ is built, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail
Matthew 16:18 left only one epistle of acknowledged genuineness.
CHURCH FATHERS: Commentary on John, Book V (Origen)
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