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Found in: Cyril of Jerusalem: On the Mysteries, II: Of Baptism (Lecture XX)
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...t our imitation was in a figure, and our salvation in reality. Christ was actually crucified, and actually buried, and truly rose again; and all these things He has freely bestowed upon us, that we, sharing His sufferings by imitation, might gain salvation in reality. O surpassing loving-kindness! Christ received nails in His undefiled hands and feet, and suffered anguish; while on me without pain or toil by the fellowship of His suffering He freely bestows salvation.VI.Let no one then suppose that baptism is merely the grace of remission of sins, or further, that of adoption; as John's was a baptism 14 conferring only remission of sins: whereas we know full well, that as it purges our sins, and ministers15 to us the gift of the Holy Ghost, so also it is the counterpart16 of the sufferings of Christ. For this cause Paul just now cried aloud and said, Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptised into Christ Jesus, were baptised into His death? We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into His death.17 These words he spoke to some who were disposed to think that baptism ministers to us the remission of sins, and adoption, but has not further the fellowship also, by representation, of...
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Found in: Ambrose of Milan: On the Mysteries
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...f. Song. 4:15; 5:173cf. Song. 5:174cf. Matt. 25:3675cf. Song. 5:176cf. Ps. 34 [LXX 33]:977cf. 1 Cor. 10:378cf. Lam. 4:2079cf. 1 Pet. 2:2180cf. Ps. 104 [LXX 103]:1581cf. Matt. 1:18...
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Found in: Cyril Of Jerusalem: On the Mysteries, III: On Chrism (Lecture XXI)
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... 1123cf. Phil. 4:1324cf. 1 Kings 1:3925cf. Rom. 11:1626cf. 1 John 2:20: But ye have an unction (χρῖσμα [chrisma]) from the Holy One.27cf. Is. 2:228cf. Is. 25:6. The Septuagint differs much from the Hebrew, both here and in the following verse. R.V. "And in this mountain shall the Lord of host make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined."29cf. Is. 5:7. R.V. "And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations."...
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Found in: Cyril of Jerusalem: First Lecture on the Mysteries (Lecture XIX)
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...ing is far more persuasive than hearing, I waited for the present season; that finding you more open to the influence of my words from your present experience, I might lead you by the hand into the brighter and more fragrant meadow of the Paradise before us; especially as ye have been made fit to receive the more sacred Mysteries, after having been found worthy of divine and life-giving baptism .2 Since therefore it remains to set before you a table of the more perfect instructions, let us now teach you these things exactly, that ye may know the effect3 wrought upon you on that evening of your baptism .II.First ye entered into the vestibule4 of the Baptistery, and there facing towards the West ye listened to the command to stretch forth your hand, and as in the presence of Satan ye renounced him. Now ye must know that this figure is found in ancient history. For when Pharaoh, that most bitter and cruel tyrant, was oppressing the free and high-born people of the Hebrews, God sent Moses to bring them out of the evil bondage of the Egyptians. Then the door posts were anointed with the blood of a lamb, that the destroyer might flee from the houses which had the sign of the blood; and the Hebrew...
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Found in: The Didache
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...tes of the rich, lawless judges of the poor, utter sinners. Be delivered, children, from all these.Chapter VI – Against False Teachers, and Food Offered to IdolsSee that no one causes you to err from this way of the Teaching, since apart from God it teaches you. For if you are able to bear the entire yoke of the Lord, you will be perfect; but if you are not able to do this, do what you are able. And concerning food, bear what you are able; but against that which is sacrificed to idols be exceedingly careful; for it is the service of dead gods.Chapter VII – Concerning baptism And concerning baptism , baptise this way: Having first said all these things, baptise into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,27 in living water. But if you have no living water, baptise into other water; and if you cannot do so in cold water, do so in warm. But if you have neither, pour out water three times upon the head into the name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit. But before the baptism let the baptiser fast, and the baptised, and whoever else can; but you shall order the baptised to fast one or two days before.Chapter VIII – Fasting and Prayer (the Lord's Prayer)But let not you...
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Found in: The Epistle Of Barnabas
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...n the word of the Lord. But what means the cloven-footed? That the righteous man also walks in this world, yet looks forward to the holy state146 [to come]. Behold how well Moses legislated. But how was it possible for them to understand or comprehend these things? We then, rightly understanding his commandments,147 explain them as the Lord intended. For this purpose He circumcised our ears and our hearts, that we might understand these things.Chapter XI. – baptism and the cross prefigured in the Old Testament.Let us further inquire whether the Lord took any care to foreshadow the water [of baptism ] and the cross. Concerning the water, indeed, it is written, in reference to the Israelites, that they should not receive that baptism which leads to the remission of sins, but should procure148 another for themselves. The prophet therefore declares, "Be astonished, O heaven, and let the earth tremble149 at this, because this people hath committed two great evils: they have forsaken Me, a living fountain, and have hewn out for themselves broken cisterns.150 Is my holy hill Zion a desolate rock? For ye shall be as the fledglings of a bird, which fly away when the nest is removed."151 And again...
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Found in: Know Your Heresies
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...ple can attain godhood, the latter denying the deity of Christ (modern-day Arians).Below is a list of some of the major heresies which have cropped up throughout the history of the Church, each with a brief summary of what they entailed. Some of these ancient heresies still can be seen today in various forms if you know what to look for, sometimes without people realising they are verging on teaching heresy. This is why it is important to know your history so that you don't fall into error.3AdoptionismSecond century: God granted Jesus supernatural powers and then adopted him as his Son at his baptism . Condemned by Pope Victor (190-198 AD).AlbigensesMiddle Ages: This error taught that there were two gods: the good god of light being Jesus in the New Testament and the god of darkness and evil, or the “God of the Old Testament”, being Satan. They considered the material world as evil, including the body, and thus denied the resurrection. Pope Innocent III persecuted the movement into extinction around 1208 AD.ApollinarianismFourth Century: Taught by Apollinaris the Younger, bishop of Laodicea in Syria. He said that the two natures of Christ could not exist in the same person, and so taug...
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Found in: Leo the Great: Letter XXVIII (called the "Tome")
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...in us."37 God in that "all things were made by Him,38 and without Him was nothing made:" man in that "He was made of a woman, made under law."39 The nativity of the flesh was the manifestation of human nature: the childbearing of a virgin is the proof of Divine power. The infancy of a babe is shown in the humbleness of its cradle:40 the greatness of the Most High is proclaimed by the angels' voices.41 He whom Herod treacherously endeavours to destroy is like ourselves in our earliest stage:42 but He whom the Magi delight to worship on their knees is the Lord of all. So too when He came to the baptism of John, His forerunner, lest He should not be known through the veil of flesh which covered His Divinity, the Father's voice thundering from the sky, said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."43 And thus Him whom the devil's craftiness attacks as man, the ministries of angels serve as God. To be hungry and thirsty, to be weary, and to sleep, is clearly human: but to satisfy 5,000 men with five loaves, and to bestow on the woman of Samaria living water, droughts of which can secure the drinker from thirsting any more, to walk upon the surface of the sea with feet that do not s...
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Found in: The Epistle Of Ignatius To The Philippians (Spurious)
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...l in Christ, which ye have manifested towards us, we thought it fitting to write to you, who display such a godly and spiritual love to the brethren,2 to put you in remembrance of your Christian course,3 "that ye all speak the same thing, being of one mind, thinking the same thing, and walking by the same rule of faith,"4 as Paul admonished you. For if there is one God of the universe, the Father of Christ, "of whom are all things;"5 and one Lord Jesus Christ, our [Lord], "by whom are all things;"6 and also one Holy Spirit, who wrought7 in Moses, and in the prophets and apostles; and also one baptism , which is administered that we should have fellowship with the death of the Lord;8 and also one elect Church; there ought likewise to be but one faith in respect to Christ. For "there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism ; one God and Father of all, who is through all, and in all."9Chapter II. – Unity of the three divine persons.There is then one God and Father, and not two or three; One who is; and there is no other besides Him, the only true [God]. For "the Lord thy God," saith [the Scripture], "is one Lord."10 And again, "Hath not one God created us? Have we not all one Father?11 And there...
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Found in: Justin Martyr: First Apology
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...re should be a conflagration. He spoke thus: "Everlasting fire shall descend, and shall devour to the pit beneath."126 It is not, then, that we hold the same opinions as others, but that all speak in imitation of ours. Among us these things can be heard and learned from persons who do not even know the forms of the letters, who are uneducated and barbarous in speech, though wise and believing in mind; some, indeed, even maimed and deprived of eyesight; so that you may understand that these things are not the effect of human wisdom, but are uttered by the power of God.Chapter LXI – Christian baptism I will also relate the manner in which we dedicated ourselves to God when we had been made new through Christ; lest, if we omit this, we seem to be unfair in the explanation we are making. As many as are persuaded and believe that what we teach and say is true, and undertake to be able to live accordingly, are instructed to pray and to entreat God with fasting, for the remission of their sins that are past, we praying and fasting with them. Then they are brought by us where there is water, and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated. For, in the name of God, t...
