Holy Scripture
Which Bible Text They Quoted
22 passages, 12 quoted here
They mostly quoted the Greek Old Testament and the old Latin versions, so their wording can differ from a modern Bible.
- 2nd century9 passages
- 3rd century3 passages
What each writer said, earliest first
Notice how God promises the same things to Isaac and to Jacob. To Isaac He says, "All the nations of the earth will be blessed in your seed" (Gen 28:14); to Jacob, "All the tribes of the earth will be blessed in you and in your seed" (Gen 28:14).
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Ὁρᾶτε μέντοι ὡς καὶ τῷ Ἰσαὰκ τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ τῷ Ἰακὼβ ὑπισχνεῖται. Οὕτω γὰρ λέγει τῷ Ἰσαάκ· Καὶ εὐλογηθήσονται ἐν τῷ σπέρματί σου πάντα τὰ ἔθνη τῆς γῆς · τῷ δὲ Ἰακώβ· Καὶ εὐλογηθήσονται ἐν σοὶ πᾶσαι αἱ φυλαὶ τῆς γῆς καὶ ἐν τῷ σπέρματί σου.
When I saw how disturbed they were at my claim that we too are children of God, I anticipated their unasked question and said: "Listen, men, to how the Holy Spirit speaks concerning this people: that all are sons of the Most High, and that He Himself, the Christ, will be present in their synagogue, making judgment from…
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Καὶ ἐπειδὴ εἶδον αὐτοὺς συνταραχθέντας ἐπὶ τῷ εἰπεῖν με καὶ θεοῦ τέκνα εἶναι ἡμᾶς, προλαβὼν τὸ ἀνερωτηθῆναι εἶπον· Ἀκούσατε, ὦ ἄνδρες, πῶς τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα λέγει περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου, ὅτι υἱοὶ ὑψίστου πάντες εἰσὶ καὶ ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ αὐτῶν παρέσται αὐτὸς οὗτος ὁ Χριστός, τὴν κρίσιν…
I will now speak the very words by which it is shown that God divided all the nations. Those words are: "Ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you.
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Ἐρῶ δὲ καὶ τοὺς λόγους, δι᾿ ὧν δηλοῦται μερίσας πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὁ θεός. Εἰσὶ δὲ οὗτοι· Ἐπερώτησον τὸν πατέρα σου, καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ σοι τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους σου, καὶ ἐροῦσί σοι.
When they fell silent, I said: "I, friends, now speak the scriptures as the Seventy interpreted them. For having quoted them earlier just as you have them, I was testing you to see how your judgment was already disposed.
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Μὴ δή, ὦ ἀδελφοί, κακόν τι εἴπητε εἰς ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἐσταυρωμένον, μηδὲ χλευάσητε αὐτοῦ τοὺς μώλωπας, οἷς ἰαθῆναι πᾶσι δυνατόν, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν.
I do not trust your teachers. They were not well trained to interpret what the seventy elders accomplished under Ptolemy, king of Egypt; instead, they attempt their own interpretations.
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Ἀλλ᾿ οὐχὶ τοῖς διδασκάλοις ὑμῶν πείθομαι, μὴ συντεθειμένοις καλῶς ἐξηγεῖσθαι τὰ ὑπὸ τῶν παρὰ Πτολεμαίῳ τῷ Αἰγυπτίων γενομένῳ βασιλεῖ ἑβδομήκοντα πρεσβυτέρων, ἀλλ᾿ αὐτοὶ ἐξηγεῖσθαι πειρῶνται.
Because this pericope from Jeremiah still appears in some copies of the Jewish synagogue scriptures—they excised it only a short time ago—it demonstrates from these very words that the Jews deliberated about this Christ, to kill him by crucifixion after plotting it;
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Κἀγὼ εἶπον· Ὡς ὑμῖν φίλον, πράξω. Ἀπὸ μὲν οὖν τῶν ἐξηγήσεων, ὧν ἐξηγήσατο Ἔσδρας εἰς τὸν νόμον τὸν περὶ τοῦ πάσχα, τὴν ἐξήγησιν ταύτην ἀφείλοντο· Καὶ εἶπεν Ἔσδρας τῷ λαῷ· Τοῦτο τὸ πάσχα ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν καὶ ἡ καταφυγὴ ἡμῶν.
The ninety-fifth psalm, which was spoken through David, originally included a phrase that has been removed - a phrase that declared, 'The Lord reigns from the wood' (Psalm 96:10).
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Καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐνενηκοστοῦ πέμπτου ψαλμοῦ τῶν διὰ Δαυῒδ λεχθέντων λόγων λέξεις βραχείας ἀφείλοντο ταύτας· ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου. Εἰρημένου γὰρ τοῦ λόγου· Εἴπατε ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν· Ὁ κύριος ἐβασίλευσεν ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου, ἀφῆκαν· Εἴπατε ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν· Ὁ κύριος ἐβασίλευσεν.
No human can adequately explain the narrative and entire ordering of the six days, not even with countless mouths and tongues; nor would anyone suffice, even after living countless years in this life, to speak worthily of these things, because of the surpassing greatness and wealth of God's wisdom contained in this…
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Τῆς μὲν οὖν ἑξαημέρου οὐδεὶς ἀνθρώπων δυνατὸς κατ᾿ ἀξίαν τὴν ἐξήγησιν καὶ τὴν οἰκονομίαν πᾶσαν ἐξειπεῖν, οὐδὲ εἰ μυρία στόματα ἔχοι καὶ μυρίας γλώσσας· ἀλλ᾿ οὐδὲ εἰ μυρίοις ἔτεσιν βιώσει τις, ἐπιδημῶν ἐν τῷδε τῷ βίῳ, οὐδὲ οὕτως ἔσται ἱκανὸς πρὸς ταῦτα ἀξίως τι εἰπεῖν, διὰ τὸ…
We will address a little later the question of whether the philosophers' doctrines were seen by the Hebrews; first, as is fitting, we must speak about the times of Moses, through which it will be shown unmistakably that the philosophy of the Hebrews is the most ancient of all wisdom.
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Καὶ περὶ μὲν τοῦ παρ’ Ἑβραίων τὰ τῶν φιλοσόφων ἐσκευωρῆσθαι δόγματα μικρὸν ὕστερον διαληψόμεθα, πρότερον δέ, ὅπερ ἀκόλουθον ἦν, περὶ τῶν κατὰ Μωυσέα χρόνων ἤδη λεκτέον, δἰ ὧν δειχθήσεται ἀναμφηρίστως πάσης σοφίας ἀρχαιοτάτη ἡ κατὰ Ἑβραίους φιλοσοφία.
The Hebrews, for their part, file counter-petitions, citing the same scriptural authority in the name of the same fathers to claim that wages ought to be restored to them for that servile labor—the bricks deducted, the cities and villages built.
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Since human senses and common understanding are not sufficient for discussing matters so great and weighty, nor for pronouncing visibly, as it were, on invisible things, we must also call upon the testimonies of divine Scripture to prove what we say.
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Preface In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, one God. This is a transcript of the excellent law. But before beginning to give the transcript of the book of the law, it will be worth while to instruct you, O brother, as to its excellence, and the dignity of its disposition.
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Other passages filed here (10)
- Justin Martyr, First Apology 31c. 100–c. 165 AD
- Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus 9fl. c. 180 AD
- Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 22c. 150–c. 215 AD
- Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 23c. 150–c. 215 AD
- Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 2c. 150–c. 215 AD
- Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies 8c. 150–c. 215 AD
- Tertullian, Against Marcion 24c. 155–c. 220 AD
- Origen of Alexandria, Against Celsus 6c. 185–c. 254 AD
- Hippolytus, Fragments on Genesisc. 170–c. 235 AD
- Hippolytus, On the Psalms (attributed) 1c. 170–c. 235 AD