But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead.Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, Vol. 1, Ed. A. Cleveland Coxe (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2001), 186.
a person should either remain as he was born, or be content with one marriage; for a second marriage is only a specious adulteryPlea for the Christians (AD 177)
To the Father of all, who is unbegotten, there is no name given. For anyone who is called by a name is dependent on the person who gives him that name. These words-Father, God, Creator, Lord, and Master-are not names, but titles derived from his good deeds and functions.Apologia II 6