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Church Fathers

Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian and Origen

Various Church Fathers

Translated by S. Thelwall and others; A. Cleveland Coxe (ed.)

Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian, and Origen's On First Principles and Against Celsus.

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Contents · 199

  1. 1Title Pages
  2. 2Time Changes Nations' Dresses--and Fortunes
  3. 3Change Not Always Improvement
  4. 4Introduction. Modesty in Apparel Becoming to Women, in Memory of the Introduction of Sin into the World Through a Woman
  5. 5Rarity the Only Cause Which Makes Such Things Valuable
  6. 6Of Dyeing the Hair
  7. 7Elucidation
  8. 8Of the Word Woman, Especially in Connection with Its Application to Eve
  9. 9If the Female Virgins are to Be Thus Conspicuous, Why Not the Male as Well?
  10. 10An Appeal to the Married Women
  11. 11Marriage Good: Celibacy Preferable
  12. 12Of the Apostle's Meaning in 1 Cor. VII. 12-14
  13. 13Elucidation
  14. 14Even the Old Discipline Was Not Without Precedents to Enforce Monogamy. But in This as in Other Respects, the New Has Brought in a Higher Perfection
  15. 15Different Views in Regard to Marriage Held by Heretics, Psychic, and Spiritualists
  16. 16The Case of Abraham, and Its Bearing on the Present Question
  17. 17The Explanation of the Passage Offered by the Psychics Considered
  18. 18Elucidations
  19. 19Adultery and Fornication Synonymous
  20. 20Repentance More Competent to Heathens Than to Christians
  21. 21General Consistency of the Apostle
  22. 22Of the Difference Between Discipline and Power, and of the Power of the Keys
  23. 23Connection of Gluttony and Lust. Grounds of Psychical Objections Against the Montanists
  24. 24Further Examples from the Old Testament in Favour of Fasting
  25. 25Of the Respect Due to “Human Authority;” And of the Charges of “Heresy” And “Pseudo-Prophecy.”
  26. 26Conclusion
  27. 27Elucidations
  28. 28De Fuga in Persecutione
  29. 29Elucidations
  30. 30A Strain of Jonah the Prophet · 1 of 4
  31. 31A Strain of Jonah the Prophet · 2 of 4
  32. 32A Strain of Jonah the Prophet · 3 of 4
  33. 33A Strain of Jonah the Prophet · 4 of 4
  34. 34A Strain of Sodom · 1 of 6
  35. 35A Strain of Sodom · 2 of 6
  36. 36A Strain of Sodom · 3 of 6
  37. 37A Strain of Sodom · 4 of 6
  38. 38A Strain of Sodom · 5 of 6
  39. 39A Strain of Sodom · 6 of 6
  40. 40Genesis · 1 of 5
  41. 41Genesis · 2 of 5
  42. 42Genesis · 3 of 5
  43. 43Genesis · 4 of 5
  44. 44Genesis · 5 of 5
  45. 45A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 1 of 12
  46. 46A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 2 of 12
  47. 47A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 3 of 12
  48. 48A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 4 of 12
  49. 49A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 5 of 12
  50. 50A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 6 of 12
  51. 51A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 7 of 12
  52. 52A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 8 of 12
  53. 53A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 9 of 12
  54. 54A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 10 of 12
  55. 55A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 11 of 12
  56. 56A Strain of the Judgment of the Lord · 12 of 12
  57. 57Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 1 of 8
  58. 58Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 2 of 8
  59. 59Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 3 of 8
  60. 60Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 4 of 8
  61. 61Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 5 of 8
  62. 62Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 6 of 8
  63. 63Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 7 of 8
  64. 64Of the Divine Unity, and the Resurrection of the Flesh · 8 of 8
  65. 65Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 1 of 9
  66. 66Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 2 of 9
  67. 67Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 3 of 9
  68. 68Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 4 of 9
  69. 69Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 5 of 9
  70. 70Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 6 of 9
  71. 71Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 7 of 9
  72. 72Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 8 of 9
  73. 73Of the Harmony of the Old and New Laws · 9 of 9
  74. 74Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 1 of 10
  75. 75Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 2 of 10
  76. 76Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 3 of 10
  77. 77Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 4 of 10
  78. 78Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 5 of 10
  79. 79Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 6 of 10
  80. 80Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 7 of 10
  81. 81Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 8 of 10
  82. 82Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 9 of 10
  83. 83Of the Harmony of the Fathers of the Old and New Testaments · 10 of 10
  84. 84Of Marcion's Antitheses · 1 of 8
  85. 85Of Marcion's Antitheses · 2 of 8
  86. 86Of Marcion's Antitheses · 3 of 8
  87. 87Of Marcion's Antitheses · 4 of 8
  88. 88Of Marcion's Antitheses · 5 of 8
  89. 89Of Marcion's Antitheses · 6 of 8
  90. 90Of Marcion's Antitheses · 7 of 8
  91. 91Of Marcion's Antitheses · 8 of 8
  92. 92General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 1 of 8
  93. 93General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 2 of 8
  94. 94General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 3 of 8
  95. 95General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 4 of 8
  96. 96General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 5 of 8
  97. 97General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 6 of 8
  98. 98General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 7 of 8
  99. 99General Reply to Sundry of Marcion's Heresies · 8 of 8
  100. 100Note
  101. 101Introductory Note
  102. 102Argument: Cæcilius, Somewhat Grieved at This Kind of Rebuke Which for His Sake Minucius Had Had to Bear from Octavius, Begs to Argue with Octavius on the Truth of His Religion. Octavius with His Companion Consents, and Minucius Sits in the Middle Between Cæcilius and Octavius
  103. 103Argument: Moreover, What Will Happen to the Christians Themselves After Death, May Be Anticipated from the Fact that Even Now They are Destitute of All Means, and are Afflicted with the Heaviest Calamities and Miseries
  104. 104Argument: But If the World is Ruled by Providence and Governed by the Will of One God, an Ignorant Antipathy Ought Not to Carry Us Away into the Error of Agreement with It: Although Delighted with Its Own Fables, It Has Brought in Ridiculous Traditions. Nor is It Shown Less Plainly that the Worship of the Gods Has Always Been Silly and Impious, in that the Most Ancient of Men Have Venerated Their Kings, Their Illustrious Generals, and Inventors of Arts, on Account of Their Remarkable Deeds, No Otherwise Than as Gods
  105. 105Argument: Nor is It Only Hatred that They Arouse Against the Christians, But They Charge Against Them Horrid Crimes, Which Up to This Time Have Been Proved by Nobody. This is the Work of Demons. For by Them a False Report is Both Set on Foot and Propagated. The Christians are Falsely Accused of Sacrilege, of Incest, of Adultery, of Parricide; And, Moreover, It is Certain and True that the Very Same Crimes, or Crimes Like to or Greater Than These, are in Fact Committed by the Gentiles Themselves
  106. 106Argument: Fate is Nothing, Except So Far as Fate is God. Man's Mind is Free, and Therefore So is His Action: His Birth is Not Brought into Judgment. It is Not a Matter of Infamy, But of Glory, that Christians are Reproached for Their Poverty; And the Fact that They Suffer Bodily Evils is Not as a Penalty, But as a Discipline
  107. 107Elucidations
  108. 108The Worship of Demons
  109. 109Apollo the Soothsaying and False
  110. 110Of the Vain Nemesiaci
  111. 111O Fool, Thou Dost Not Die to God
  112. 112Of the Tree of Life and Death
  113. 113Of the End of This Age
  114. 114Of Infants
  115. 115To the Matrons of the Church of the Living God
  116. 116To Ministers
  117. 117Of Those Who Gossip, and of Silence
  118. 118Preface
  119. 119Critical Works
  120. 120Editions of Origin
  121. 121Preface
  122. 122On God
  123. 123On Christ
  124. 124On the Holy Spirit
  125. 125On the End or Consummation
  126. 126Fragment from the First Book of the de Principiis
  127. 127On the Beginning of the World, and Its Causes
  128. 128On the Incarnation of Christ
  129. 129On the World and the Movements of Rational Creatures, Whether Good or Bad; And on the Causes of Them
  130. 130On Counter Promises
  131. 131Chapter I. translated from the Latin of Rufinus: On the Freedom of the Will
  132. 132Chapter I. translated from the Greek: On the Freedom of the Will, With an Explanation and Interpretation of Those Statements of Scripture Which Appear to Nullify It
  133. 133On the Opposing Powers
  134. 134On Human Temptations
  135. 135On the End of the World
  136. 136Chapter I., Sections 1-23 translated from the Latin of Rufinus: That the Scriptures are Divinely Inspired
  137. 137Chapter I., Sections 1-23 translated from the Greek: On the Inspiration of Holy Scripture, and How the Same is to be Read and Understood, and What is the Reason of the Uncertainty in it; and of the Impossibility or Irrationality of Certain Things in it, Taken According to the Letter
  138. 138Sections 24-End translated from the Latin
  139. 139Elucidations · 1 of 2
  140. 140Elucidations · 2 of 2
  141. 141A Letter to Origen from Africanus About the History of Susanna
  142. 142A Letter from Origen to Africanus
  143. 143A Letter from Origen to Gregory
  144. 144Chapter V
  145. 145Chapter XVIII
  146. 146Chapter XXXI
  147. 147Chapter XLIV
  148. 148Chapter LVII
  149. 149Chapter LXIX
  150. 150Chapter IX
  151. 151Chapter XX
  152. 152Chapter XXXI
  153. 153Chapter XLIII
  154. 154Chapter LVI
  155. 155Chapter LXVI
  156. 156Chapter LXXVI
  157. 157Chapter VI
  158. 158Chapter XIX
  159. 159Chapter XXX
  160. 160Chapter XLIII
  161. 161Chapter LII
  162. 162Chapter LXIV
  163. 163Chapter LXXV
  164. 164Chapter VI
  165. 165Chapter XIX
  166. 166Chapter XXXII
  167. 167Chapter XXXVIII
  168. 168Chapter XXXIX
  169. 169Chapter LII
  170. 170Chapter LXV
  171. 171Chapter LXXVII
  172. 172Chapter LXXXVII
  173. 173Chapter XCI
  174. 174Chapter XCII
  175. 175Elucidation
  176. 176Chapter IX
  177. 177Chapter XXII
  178. 178Chapter XXXV
  179. 179Chapter XLVIII
  180. 180Chapter LIX
  181. 181Chapter VI
  182. 182Chapter XIX
  183. 183Chapter XXXII
  184. 184Chapter XLII
  185. 185Chapter L
  186. 186Chapter LXIII
  187. 187Chapter LXXVI
  188. 188Chapter VI
  189. 189Chapter XVII
  190. 190Chapter XXX
  191. 191Chapter XLIII
  192. 192Chapter LVI
  193. 193Chapter LXIX
  194. 194Chapter XI
  195. 195Chapter XXIV
  196. 196Chapter XXXVII
  197. 197Chapter L
  198. 198Chapter LXIII
  199. 199Chapter LXXIII