Ignatius (35-107 a.d.) Letter to the Ephesians
Chapter I.—Praise of the Ephesians. I have become acquainted with your name, much-beloved in God, which ye have acquired by the habit of righteousness, according to the faith and love in Jesus Christ our Saviour. Being the followers of God, and stirring up yourselves by the blood of God, ye have perfectly accomplished the work which was beseeming to you. For, on hearing that I came bound from Syria for the common name and hope, trusting through your prayers to be permitted to fight with beasts at Rome, that so by martyrdom I may indeed become the disciple of Him “who gave Himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God,” [ye hastened to see me]. I received, therefore, your whole multitude in the name of God, through Onesimus, a man of inexpressible love, and your
Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 – Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 2928-2939). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition.
Chapter VII.—Beware of false teachers. For some are in the habit of carrying about the name [of Jesus Christ] in wicked guile, while yet they practise things unworthy of God, whom ye must flee as ye would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom ye must be on your guard, inasmuch as they are men who can scarcely be cured. There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; both of Mary and of God; first passible and then impassible,—534 even Jesus Christ our Lord.
Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 – Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 3135-3140). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition.
Chapter IV But the Holy Spirit does not speak His own things, but those of Christ, and that not from himself, but from the Lord; even as the Lord also announced to us the things that He received from the Father. For, says He, “the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father’s, who sent Me.”545 And says He of the Holy Spirit, “He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever things He shall hear from Me.”546
Schaff, Philip. Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume 1 – Enhanced Version (Early Church Fathers) (Kindle Locations 3197-3201). Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Kindle Edition.
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