early church writers - references, usages and allusions - Ante-Nicene

[Steven Avery]

Irenaeus and many others will be documented here.

See also:
Irenaeus with Valentinus

overview of Greek and dual-language evidences and Greek grammatical imperatives

Claudius Apollinaris https://www.purebibleforum.com/index.php/threads/a.1130[/SIZE] Irenaeus quoting Valentinus https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TC-Alternate-list/conversations/messages/5542 http://books.google.com/books?id=EKwCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage#PPA8,M1 Origen Origen Psalm...

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[Steven Avery]

New Plea (1867)
Charles Forster
p. 7-8

A New Plea for the Authenticity of the Text of the Three Heavenly Witness; Or, Porson's Letters to Travis Eclectically Examined and the External and Internal Evidences for 1 John V, 7 Eclectically Re-surveyed

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p. 67

A New Plea for the Authenticity of the Text of the Three Heavenly Witness; Or, Porson's Letters to Travis Eclectically Examined and the External and Internal Evidences for 1 John V, 7 Eclectically Re-surveyed

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p. 84-85

A New Plea for the Authenticity of the Text of the Three Heavenly Witness; Or, Porson's Letters to Travis Eclectically Examined and the External and Internal Evidences for 1 John V, 7 Eclectically Re-surveyed

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p. 107

A New Plea for the Authenticity of the Text of the Three Heavenly Witness; Or, Porson's Letters to Travis Eclectically Examined and the External and Internal Evidences for 1 John V, 7 Eclectically Re-surveyed

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[Steven Avery]

Cyprian given in

Gerhard - 1619

Disputatio Theologica Ex dicto Apostolico 1. Joh. 5. v. 7. Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo, Pater, Verbum & Spiritus sanctus, & hi tres unum sunt: A Johanne Gerhardo ... Publicè instituta

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Full Cyprian text

S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia

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English section
He says, "I bear witness of myself, my testimony is not true; but there is another who beareth witness of me."(2) but if the Lord Himself, who will by and by judge all things, was unwilling to be believed on His own testimony, but preferred to be approved by the judgment and testimony of God the Father, how much more does it be-hove His servants to observe this, who are not only approved by, but even glory in the judgment and testimony of God!

 

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Against Heresies - Bk 4 XXXIII.3 -

The Ante-Nicene Fathers

"One of the first great events in Christian history was the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, convened to organize Christian sects and beliefs into a unified doctrine. The great Christian clergymen who wrote before this famous event are referred to as the Ante-Nicenes and the Apostolic Fathers, and...

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all these beings are indeed said [in Scripture to be], as it were, one

This was noted by Carl Graham
Pseudo-Science of Biblical Criticism (2002c.)

Pseudoscience to Biblical Criticism

Ref:
2. Soulen, Richard N., Handbook of Biblical Criticism, 2nd ed. (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1981), p. 75.

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The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, Volume 1
Irenaeus Against Heresies

The Ante-Nicene Fathers

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3. [This spiritual man] shall also judge all the followers of Valentinus, because they do indeed confess with the tongue one God the Father, and that all things derive their existence from Him, but do at the same time maintain that He who formed all things is the fruit of an apostasy or defect. [He shall judge them, too, because] they do in like manner confess with the tongue one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, but assign in their [system of] doctrine a production of his own to the Only-begotten, one of his own also to the Word, another to Christ, and yet another to the Saviour; so that, according to them, all these beings are indeed said [in Scripture to be], as it were, one; [while they maintain], notwithstanding, that each one of them should be understood [to exist] separately [from the rest], and to have [had] his own special origin, according to his peculiar conjunction. [It appears], then,4 that their tongues alone, forsooth, have conceded the unity [of God], while their [real] opinion and their understanding (by their habit of investigating profundities) have fallen away from [this doctrine of] unity, and taken up the notion of manifold deities, — ...