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Athanasius: Life of Anthony
Keywords: Athanasius,ante-nicene fathers,Anthony the Great,Egypt,Ascetic,monks,monasteries,convent,nun,devil,demons,fasting and prayer,temptations,desert fathers,Monasticism,Alexandria,persecution,Maximinus,martyrdom,evil spirit,miracles,healing,confessor,visions,satan,schism,Arius,heresy,heretics,apostacy,Philosophers,Constantine Augustus,Arians
...keness of beasts and creeping things. And the place was on a sudden filled with the forms of lions, bears, leopards, bulls, serpents, asps, scorpions, and wolves, and eac...
Ignatius of Antioch: Letter to the Romans
Keywords: ignatius,apostolic fathers,unity,martyrdom,theophorus,wild beasts,Rome
...the wild beastsI write to the Churches, and impress on them all, that I shall willingly die for God, unless ye hinder me. I beseech of you not to show an unseasonable go...
The Third Epistle Of The Same St. Ignatius (Syriac) – To the Romans
Keywords: ignatius,apostolic fathers,romans,syriac
...y of] the beasts, that by their means I may be accounted worthy of God. I am the wheat of God, and by the teeth of the beasts I shall be ground,4 that I may be found the...
The Martyrdom of Ignatius
Keywords: ignatius,martyrdom,ante-nicene fathers,Trajan
...ed by the beasts, for the gratification of the people." When the holy martyr heard this sentence, he cried out with joy, "I thank thee, O Lord, that Thou hast vouchsafed...
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Keywords: polycarp,martyrdom,martyrs,miracles,apostolic fathers
...the wild beasts endured dreadful tortures, being stretched out upon beds full of spikes, and subjected to various other kinds of torments, in order that, if it were poss...
Cyril of Jerusalem: First Lecture on the Mysteries (Lecture XIX)
Keywords: cyril of jerusalem,post-nicene fathers,baptism,mysteries,sacraments,satan,devil
...s to wild beasts, that they may pamper their miserable appetite; who, to serve their belly with meats, become themselves in reality meat for the belly of untamed beasts;...
