A Plea for the Christians
Athenagoras
Public DomainChristian Classics
Chapters 28
- trifled with; especially when it began to threaten the West. This work was produced to meet so great an ≈ 5 min
- anachronisms. As now explained, we can account for them: the second Hermas forgets himself, like other poets, ≈ 5 min
- The Pauline Hermas was credited with it; and the critics, in their researches, find multiplied traces of the one ≈ 329 min
- And his son Lamech, 188. And Lamech's son was Noah, of whom we have spoken above, who begat Shem when ≈ 2866 min
- Some flatterers were congratulating a wise man. He said to them, If you stop praising me, I think myself ≈ 6 min
- To the weak and infirm, what is moderate appears excessive. ≈ 5 min
- To the man who exalts and magnifies himself is attached the quick transition and the fall to low estate, as the ≈ 5 min
- Pure speech and a spotless life are the throne and true temple of God. ≈ 5 min
- from the life led under the Father, knowing not that those who put themselves far from Him shall perish; if he has ≈ 8 min
- do not impede or drag to the earth (for the earthly tabernacle weighs down the anxious mind); but they are ≈ 8 min
- to the Father, takes it ill, when he who never had himself been dissipated or profligate sees the guilty one made ≈ 8 min
- these things,--the best robe, and the ring, and the shoes,--or to taste the fatted calf, or to share in gladness, or ≈ 7 min
- Wherefore the prodigal is introduced, demanding from his father his portion, that is, of the state of mind, endowed ≈ 7 min
- nearest relationship, and significative of what is given to the faithful--"was dead and lost,"--an expression of ≈ 7 min
- destruction. Do not let us then reckon any fault if we repent; guarding against falling, let us, if we have fallen, ≈ 7 min
- Further, Clement the Stromatist, in the various definitions which he framed, that they might guide the man ≈ 7 min
- Solomon the son of David, in the books styled "The Reigns of the Kings," comprehending not only that the ≈ 7 min
- What is God? "God," as the Lord saith, "is a Spirit." Now spirit is properly substance, incorporeal, and ≈ 5 min
- pefukenai (to be born). The first substance is everything which subsists by itself, as a stone is ≈ 5 min
- The fear of God, who is impassible, is free of perturbation. For it is not God that one dreads, but the falling away ≈ 5 min
- Universally, the Christian is friendly to solitude, and quiet, and tranquillily, and peace. ≈ 5 min
- That mystic name which is called the Tetragrammaton, by which alone they who had access to the Holy of Holies ≈ 5 min
- On Acts vii. 24, 25. The mystics say that it was by his word alone that Moses slew the Egyptian ; as certainly ≈ 5 min
- And having neither known nor done the requirement of the law, what they conceived, that they also thought that ≈ 5 min
- On 2 Cor. v. 16. "And if we have known Christ after the flesh." ≈ 5 min
- On 2 Cor. vi. 11. "Our heart is enlarged." For as heat is wont to expand, so also love. For love is a thing of ≈ 5 min
- Heb. i. I. "At sundry times and divers man Since the Lord, being the Apostle of the Almighty, was sent to the ≈ 5 min
- The same work contains a passage from The Instructor, book i. chap. vi.[4] The passage is that beginning, "For ≈ 109 min
| Author | Athenagoras |
|---|---|
| Language | తెలుగు · Telugu · English · हिन्दी · Hindi |
| Era | Patristic |
| Categories | Christian Classics · Theology |
| Chapters | 28 |
| Formats | Web Book |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.
