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NPNF2-06. Jerome: The Principal Works of St. Jerome by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
This, one of the longest of Jerome’s letters, was written to console Eustochium for the loss of her mother who had recently died. Jerome relates the story of Paula in detail; speaking first of her high birth, marriage, and social success at Rome, and then narrating her conversion and subsequent life as a Christian ascetic.
On the Incarnation of the Word by Athanasius, Saint (c. 297-373)
Chapter 3 The Divine Dilemma and its Solution in the Incarnation — continued (11) When God the Almighty was making mankind through His own Word, He perceived that they, owing to the limitation of their nature, could not of themselves have any knowledge of their Artificer, the Incorporeal and Uncreated.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) by Henry, Matthew (1662-1714)
M A T T H E W. CHAP. V. This chapter, and the two that follow it, are a sermon; a famous sermon; the sermon upon the mount. It is the longest and fullest continued discourse of our Saviour that we have upon record in all the gospels.
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38 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
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God Pleads with Israel to Repent 2 The word of the Lord came to me, saying: Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord: I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride,…
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Blessings in Store for God’s People 51 Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness, you that seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.
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Vengeance on Edom 63 “Who is this that comes from Edom, from Bozrah in garments stained crimson? Who is this so splendidly robed, marching in his great might?” “It is I, announcing vindication,…
Institutes of the Christian Religion by Calvin, John (1509-1564)
CHAPTER 2. OF FAITH. THE DEFINITION OF IT. ITS PECULIAR PROPERTIES. This chapter consists of three principal parts.—I. A brief explanation of certain matters pertaining to the doctrine of Faith, sec.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
The Treatises of Cyprian. ———————————— Treatise I. On the Unity of the Church. [Written a.d. 251. Although, in order of time, this treatise would be the third,…
Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus, St. (c.130-c.200)
1. Knowing, my beloved Marcianus, your desire to walk in godliness, which alone leads man to life eternal, I rejoice with you and make my prayer that you may preserve your faith entire and so be pleasing to God who made you.