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Acts 17 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI

He does not mean the extension of his preaching locally: for he says also that in Achaia faith abounded; and it is related also in the Acts of the Apostles that he preached the word in Athens.[309]

Acts 17:9 - NIV, NAB - in Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

For after that they had been very burdensome to them for his name, and had troubled the people and the rulers of the city, "having taken security," he says, "of Jason, and of the others, they let them go. And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea."[47]

Acts 17:11 - NIV, NAB - in Dialogue of Justin

And Trypho said, "Prove this; for, as you see, the day advances, and we are not prepared for such perilous replies; since never yet have we heard any man investigating, or searching into, or proving these matters; nor would we have tolerated your conversation, had you not referred everything to the Scriptures:[191]

Acts 17:11 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

More strength will be given you, and the intelligence of the heart will be effected more and more, as you examine more fully the Scriptures, old and new, and read through the complete volumes of the spiritual books.[3]

Acts 17:18 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles,[124]

Acts 17:18 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius A Treatise on the Anger of God

Therefore the opinion of those is vain and false, who, when they attribute the one to God, take away the other, not less than the opinion of those who take away both. But the latter,[18]

Acts 17:21 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian A Treatise on the Soul

city,[22]

Acts 17:21 - NIV, NAB - in Acts of Saint Philip the Apostle When He Went to Upper Hellas

And having done so, they came together to the same place, and say to Philip: We have doctrines of our fathers in which we are pleased, seeking after knowledge; but if thou hast anything new, O stranger, show it to us without envy boldly: for we have need of nothing else, but only to hear something new.[2]

Acts 17:22 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

eeded anything, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him; though He be not far from every one of us: for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we also are His offspring."[208]

Acts 17:22 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

For in walking about, and beholding the objects of your worship, I found an altar on which was inscribed, To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you."[155]

Acts 17:23 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Ad Nationes Book II

such folly as the Athenians did; for at Athens there was an altar with this inscription: "To The Unknown Gods."[152]

Acts 17:23 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VII

And (Cerinthus alleges) that, after the baptism (of our Lord), Christ in form of a dove came down upon him, from that absolute sovereignty which is above all things. And then, (according to this heretic,) Jesus proceeded to preach the unknown Father,[92]

Acts 17:23 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book X

he is a Jew; but when he says to the Athenians,[20]

Acts 17:24 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

Therefore God, winking at the times of ignorance, does now command all men everywhere to turn to Him with repentance; because He hath appointed a day, on which the world shall be judged in righteousness by the man Jesus; whereof He hath given assurance by raising, Him from the dead."[200]

Acts 17:24 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V

Most instructively, therefore, says Paul in the Acts of the Apostles: "The God that made the world, and all things in it, being the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is worshipped by men's hands, as if He needed anything; seeing that it is He Himself that giveth to all breath, and life, and all things."[140]

Acts 17:24 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Praxeas

made with hands; "[208]

Acts 17:28 - NIV, NAB - in Origen de Principiis Book II

To the same effect also are the words of Paul, in his address to the Athenians, when he says, "In Him we live, and move, and have our being."[8]

Acts 17:28 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book IV

Nor does he see that, according to the doctrine of Christianity, we all "in Him live, and move, and have our being,"[19]

Acts 17:28 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book V

as Cicero[49]

Acts 17:30 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus

As long then as the former time[46]

Acts 17:30 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fifth

"And if any one, sir," I said, "has been hitherto ignorant, before he heard these words, how can suchman be saved who has defiled his flesh? ""Respecting former sins[25]

Acts 17:30 - NIV, NAB - in Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas

And the apostle answered and said to them: He does not reckon against you the sins which you did, being in error; but He overlooks your transgressions which you have done in ignorance.[32]

Acts 17:31 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians

in heaven and on earth are subject. Him every spirit serves. He comes as the Judge of the living and the dead.[12]

Acts 17:32 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

He declared it then to be of such a character as the Pharisees had admitted it, and such as the Lord had Himself maintained it, and such too as the Sadducees refused to believe it-such refusal leading them indeed to an absolute rejection of the whole verity. Nor had the Athenians previously understood Paul to announce any other resurrection.[259]

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