the Gospel

1. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 7 authority 7 citations · 8 passages

   book 1 · book 2 4 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 5 2 passages anchored here

   The 'gospel of truth' is invoked to identify to whom the sentence about the sins of the fathers upon the sons truly applies.

   Although, if you receive the gospel of truth, you will know to whom that sentence pertains, of Him who renders to the sons the sins of the fathers — namely to those who were of their own accord about to imprecate this sentence upon themselves:

2. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 6 authority 6 citations · 11 passages

   book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 6 3 passages anchored here · book 7 3 passages anchored here

   A Gospel saying is cited to ground the concluding doctrine.

   For the Scripture hands down as clean and acceptable to God those of the sacrificial animals that part the hoof and chew the cud, as figuring that the just make their journey toward the Father and toward the Son through faith (for this is the steadfastness of the cleft-footed)—those who "meditate on the oracles of God night and day," and ruminate them in the receptacle of the soul that holds learning.

3. Letters Basil of Caesarea 4 authority 4 citations

   letter 2 · letter 6 · letter 173 · letter 188

   Basil quotes Christ's command to deny oneself and follow him as the basis for the ascetic life he describes.

   For your saying that the situation of the place is not enough to instil in your soul any impulse toward the life we lead, until you have learned something of our way and manner of living—this was indeed a thought truly your own and worthy of your soul, which reckons all things here as nothing in comparison with the blessedness laid up for us in the promises.

4. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 3 authority 3 citations · 4 passages

   chapter 8 · chapter 27 · chapter 32 2 passages anchored here

   The unnamed evangelist is quoted to establish the Gospel's reliability.

   'There are,' he says, 'also many other things which Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I do not think that the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

5. De Pudicitia Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

   de pudicitia 5 passages anchored here

   Gospel sayings and parables are the central textual battleground of the window.

   Therefore, this our interpretation being joined with theirs, the arguments both of the sheep and of the drachma will look the more toward the heathen, by how much they cannot befit the Christian in that offence on account of which they are forced toward the Christian by the other party.

6. Adversus Judaeos Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   locus not recovered

   'The evangelist' is explicitly cited as a source confirming the law and prophets' cessation with John the Baptist.

7. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   de carnis resurrectione 2 passages anchored here

   Sayings attributed to Christ are quoted directly and relied upon as authoritative.

   How, then, do we read, "The things impossible with men are possible with God," and, "God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that He may confound the wisdom of the world"?

8. De ieiunio adversus psychicos Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 1

   The Gospel is explicitly invoked as the source of teachings about fasting days and dietary defilement.

   " Certainly they think that in the Gospel those days were marked out for fasting in which the Bridegroom was taken away, and that these alone are now the lawful fasts of Christians, the legal and prophetic antiquities being abolished.

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