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Phil. 3:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

"people," whose "mount" is Christ, "prµcised without concisors' hands,[49]

Phil. 3:2 - NIV, NAB - in Dubious Hippolytus Fragments

Finally, hear Paul as he speaks boldly, and mark how clearly he discovers these: "Beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.[40]

Phil. 3:2 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle LIV

[62]

Phil. 3:2 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop

And although it is written that the dogs should remain without, and the apostle has taught that these same dogs must be shunned, as we read, for he says, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers,"[1]

Phil. 3:3 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II

; but (it will be) when it has endured laceration for Christ's sake,[35]

Phil. 3:3 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book II

We are the circumcision[98]

Phil. 3:3 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To His Wife Book I

of God introducing the spiritual circumcision.[20]

Phil. 3:3 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

if the sign signifies something, each of the signs which are recorded, whether as in actual history, or by way of precept, is indicative of something afterwards fulfilled; as for example, the sign of Jonah going out after three days from the whale's belly was indicative of the resurrection of our Saviour, rising after three days and three nights from the dead; and that which is called circumcision is the sign of that which is indicated by Paul in the words: "We are the circumcision."[19]

Phil. 3:4 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

But "those things which he had once accounted gain," and which he enumerates in the preceding verse-"trust in the flesh," the sign of "circumcision," his origin as "an Hebrew of the Hebrews," his descent from "the tribe of Benjamin," his dignity in the honours of the Pharisee[921]

Phil. 3:5 - NIV, NAB - in Dialogue of Justin

Then he told me frankly both his name and his family. "Trypho," says he, "I am called; and I am a Hebrew of the circumcision,[4]

Phil. 3:5 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

For the occasion, indeed, of claiming Divine grace even for the Gentiles derived a pre-eminent fitness from this fact, that the man who set up to vindicate CoWs Law as his own was of the Gentiles, and not a Jew "of the stock of the Israelites."[2]

Phil. 3:5 - NIV, NAB - in The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs XII

11. And I shall no longer be called a ravening wolf[8]

Phil. 3:7 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

-he now reckons to be only "loss" to himself;[922]

Phil. 3:8 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians

that I "may win Christ."[35]

Phil. 3:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

(in other words, ) it was not the God of the Jews, but their stupid obduracy, which he repudiates. These are also the things "which he counts but dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ"[923]

Phil. 3:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Of Patience

, for the purpose of "winning the Lord; "[137]

Phil. 3:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To His Wife Book II

by the believer."[13]

Phil. 3:8 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

For what seek ye? Or what does every one that seeketh find? I venture to answer, pearls and the pearl which he possesses, who has given up all things, and counted them as loss; "for which," says Paul, "I have counted all things but loss that I may win Christ; "[37]

Phil. 3:8 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

may receive, when freed from a tutor and stewards and guardians, the patrimony corresponding to the very costly pearl, and to that which is perfect, which on its coming does away with that which is in part, when one is able to receive "the excellency of the knowledge of Christ,"[42]

Phil. 3:9 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

Christ, "the righteousness which is of God."[924]

Phil. 3:9 - NIV, NAB - in The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

not workmen who imitate the children of light, while they are not light but darkness-"men whose end is destruction; "[136]

Phil. 3:10 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

For He is my hope; He is my boast; He is my never-failing riches, on whose account I bear about with me these bonds from Syria to Rome, these spiritual jewels, in which may I be perfected through your prayers, and become a partaker of the sufferings of Christ, and have fellowship with Him in His death, His resurrection from the dead, and His everlasting life.[86]

Phil. 3:10 - NIV, NAB - in Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

For it renders us like to Christ, if we experience "the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings."[68]

Phil. 3:10 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book II

and this, "Being made conformable to His death,"[177]

Phil. 3:11 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

If, therefore, in the present time, fleshly hearts are made partakers of the Spirit, what is there astonishing if, in the resurrection, they receive that life which is granted by the Spirit? Of which resurrection the apostle speaks in the Epistle to the Philippians: "Having been made conformable to His death, if by any means I might attain to the resurrection which is from the dead."[109]

Phil. 3:11 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

It is in expectation of this for himself that the apostle writes to the Philippians: "If by any means," says he, "I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect."[156]

Phil. 3:11 - NIV, NAB - in Methodius Discourse III. Thaleia

for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee." Now these promises, it is evident to every one, will be fulfilled after the resurrection.[82]

Phil. 3:11 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book VII

Then they who shall be alive in their bodies shall not die, but during those thousand years shall produce an infinite multitude, and their offspring shall be holy, and beloved by God; but they who shall be raised from the dead shall preside over the living as judges.[145]

Phil. 3:11 - NIV, NAB - in Acts of Sharbil

Sharbil said: Thou hast well done in treating me thus: because I have heard that one of the teachers of the Church hath said,[47]

Phil. 3:12 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect has come, the things which are in part shall be done away."[109]

Phil. 3:12 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forth to those that are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus."[106]

Phil. 3:12 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To His Wife Book II

Let the one, therefore, have the necessity of continuing; the other, further, even the power of not marrying. Secondly, if, according to the Scripture, they who shall be "apprehended"[20]

Phil. 3:12 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To His Wife Book II

If these things may happen to those women also who, having attained the faith while in (the state of) Gentile matrimony, continue in that state, still they are excused, as having been "apprehended by God"[47]

Phil. 3:13 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To His Wife Book I

But if we listen to the apostle, forgetting what is behind, let us both strain after what is before,[29]

Phil. 3:13 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Modesty

according to Jeremiah; and "forgetful of former things, we are reaching forward,"[53]

Phil. 3:13 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

in other words, when one reaches forth unto those things which are before, he will forget those which are behind.[581]

Phil. 3:14 - NIV, NAB - in Novation On the Jewish Meats

I address you; and as you press "in your course to the prize of your calling in Christ,"[4]

Phil. 3:14 - NIV, NAB - in The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

of thy "calling on high"[44]

Phil. 3:15 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

And yet he reckons himself perfect, because he has been emancipated from his former life, and strives after the better life, not as perfect in knowledge, but as aspiring after perfection. Wherefore also he adds, "As many of us as are perfect, are thus minded,"[107]

Phil. 3:15 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian De Corona

And not merely in regard to a judicial sentence, but in regard to every decision in matters we are called on to consider, the apostle also says, "If of anything you are ignorant, God shall reveal it unto you; "[16]

Phil. 3:15 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Fasting

"And if," says (the apostle), "there are matters which ye are ignorant about, the Lord will reveal to you."[81]

Phil. 3:15 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments

For, by progressing in virtue, and attaining to better things, "reaching forth to those things which are before,"[37]

Phil. 3:15 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle LXII

And because already His second coming draws near to us, His benign and liberal condescension is more and more illuminating our hearts with the light of truth.[46]

Phil. 3:16 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians

"that ye all speak the same thing, being of one mind, thinking the same thing, and walking by the same rule of faith,"[4]

Phil. 3:16 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third

And they have always agreed with each other, and been at peace among themselves,[19]

Phil. 3:18 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians

on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, "whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things,"[61]

Phil. 3:18 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians

For if they had been branches of the Father, they would not have been "enemies of the cross of Christ,"[86]

Phil. 3:18 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians

Beware, therefore, of those that hasten to work mischief, those "enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose glory is in their shame."[26]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II

Such are the men who believe in their belly, "whose God is their belly, whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." To them the apostle predicted no good when he said, "whose end is destruction."[54]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Of Patience

which makes the slaves of the belly[171]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins

Deservedly, therefore, while they do not cover their head, in order that they may be solicited for the sake of glory, they are forced to cover their bellies by the ruin resulting from infirmity. For it is emulation, not religion, which impels them. Sometimes it is that god- their belly[50]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian To His Wife Book I

Not one of such women knows how to speak of the good of single-husbandhood; for their "god," as the apostle says, "is their belly; "[96]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

For our conversation is in heaven, whence also we expect the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall transform the body of our humiliation conformed to the body of His glory."[444]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

And again, in the same epistle, he also warns us not to mind earthly things, and tells us that we ought to have our conversation in heaven; from which also we look for the Saviour, our Lord Jesus Christ.[399]

Phil. 3:19 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI

And do not suppose that Paul said that he was truly God; for just as the belly, though it is not the god of those who prize pleasure too highly, being lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, is said by Paul to be their god,[123]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus

They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven.[22]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Similitude First

He says to me, "You know that you who are the servants of God dwell in a strange land; for your city is far away from this one.[2]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV

"For the world is crucified to me, and I to the world," the [apostle] says; "and now I live, though in the flesh, as having my conversation in heaven."[16]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian De Corona

But as for you, you are a foreigner in this world, a citizen of Jerusalem, the city above. Our citizenship, the apostle says, is in heaven.[54]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book III

, or citizenship, is in heaven,[357]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

, "such also are they that are earthy"-men again, of course; "therefore as is the heavenly," meaning the Man, from heaven, "such are the men also that are heavenly."[470]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

of any other than Him to whom the law belonged. "Our conversation," says he, "is in heaven."[925]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

from whence also we look for our Saviour Jesus Christ, who shall change our body of humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body"[335]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Polycrates of Ephesus

his other daughter also, who passed her life[6]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

and, "Our citizenship is in heaven."[81]

Phil. 3:20 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

we say it as Peter, not by flesh and blood revealing it unto us, but by the light from the Father in heaven shining in our heart, we too become as Peter, being pronounced blessed as he was, because that the grounds on which he was pronounced blessed apply also to us, by reason of the fact that flesh and blood have not revealed to us with regard to Jesus that He is Christ, the Son of the living God, but the Father in heaven, from the very heavens, that our citizenship may be in heaven,[66]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

If, again, Christ in His advent from heaven "shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body,"[928]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

It was as full of this splendid example that Paul said: "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body."[429]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VII

also, "Who will change the body of our humiliation."[126]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle LXXVI

All that deformity, detestable and foul to Gentiles, with what splendour shall it be recompensed! This temporal and brief suffering, how shall it be exchanged for the re ward of a bright and eternal honour, when, according to the word of the blessed apostle, "the Lord shall change the body of our humiliation, that it may be fashioned like to the body of His brightness!"[6]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise VII On the Mortality

into the likeness of Christ, and to arrive more quickly to the dignity of heavenly glory, since Paul the apostle announces and says, "For our conversation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change the body of our humiliation, and conform it to the body of His glory? "[44]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection

The transformation, he says, is the restoration into an impassible and glorious state. For now the body is a body of desire and of humiliation,[110]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

since He formerly became conformed to "the body of our humiliation,"[190]

Phil. 3:21 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII

with "the body of humiliation," and do all things that they may become worthy to be found in the mystery of the resurrection, when God shall fashion anew the body of humiliation not of all, but of those who have been truly made disciples to Christ, so that it may be conformed to the body of the glory of Christ.[140]

Phil. 3:29 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

) according to the working of His own power."[102]

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