Before We Divided

"There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways. The way of life ..."

"Those who were appointed by the apostles or afterward by other eminent men, with the consent of the whole church, and wh..."

"Take care to do all things in harmony with God, with the bishop presiding in the place of God, and the presbyters in the..."

"For I know and believe that he was in the flesh even after the resurrection. And when he came to those with Peter, he sa..."

"Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be; as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic church. It is n..."

"Stand fast in your faith and be courageous — as you have learned from the example of the blessed Ignatius and Zosimus an..."

"He speaks of the sabbath at the beginning of creation: 'And God made the works of his hands in six days, and he finished..."

"I have heard from a certain elder, that after one repentance, the seal of baptism is not to be trodden under foot, but t..."

"On the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the ..."

"We do not trust through Moses or through the law; for then we would do the same as yourselves. But now — for I have read..."

"In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries are types of the Trinity: God, and his Word, and his..."

"We acknowledge a God, uncreated, eternal, invisible, impassible, incomprehensible, infinite, who is apprehended by the u..."

"The church, having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if occ..."

"Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at Rome..."

"The Instructor does not wish us to be cowards. He wishes us to be afraid only of sinning... He wishes us to be bold towa..."

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. Your cruelty is our glory. The more you mow us down, the more we gro..."

"The flesh is the hinge of salvation. God made the flesh; Christ was clothed in the flesh; the flesh was fed by Christ; t..."

"If you should fall into the fire of persecution, remember the three young men who sang in the flames. And if the persecu..."

"The Lord's Prayer contains everything that a disciple of Jesus could possibly ask from God. It is a compendium of all th..."