2nd Century (4)



O the sweet exchange, O the incomprehensible work of God, O the unexpected blessings, that the sinfulness of many should be hidden in one righteous man, while the righteousness of one should justify many sinners.Epistle to Diognetus, 9.5


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Therefore, to squelch the rumor, Nero created scapegoats and subjected to the most refined tortures those whom the common people called "Christians," [a group] hated for their abominable crimes. Their name comes from Christ, who, during the reign of Tiberius, had been executed by the procurator Pontius Pilate. Suppressed for the moment, the deadly superstition broke out again, not only in Judea, the land which originated this evil, but also in the city of Rome.The Annals (15.44)


870      2017-09-02     0
There is, brethren, one God, the knowledge of whom we gain from the Holy Scriptures, and from no other source. Whatever things, then, the Holy Scriptures declare, at these let us look; and whatsoever things they teach, these let us learn.Against the Heresy of One Noetus, 9.


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