Scripture
object · 6 works · 7 mentions · 12 anchored passages
scripture · the Scripture · Old and New Testament · the Scriptures · the divine Scriptures · the genuine prophetic equipment · the writings of God · āgama · śāstra
spoken of as
2 expressionsāgama“scripture”1 mention
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana (Sanskrit)
And in scripture (āgama) too:
Śāstra“scripture”1 mention
Bodhapañcadaśikā (Sanskrit)
From the savor of His grace alone, or from the tradition of the guru (āgama), or from scripture (śāstra) — by whatever means it has come about,
in the texts
Stromata
The sacred Hebrew/Christian scriptural text quoted as moral authority in the discussion of philosophical plagiarism.
This man is called a thief by the Scripture.
how much less, surely, should we be—we who cling to the truly true philosophy, to whom the Scripture plainly enjoins, for the sake of discovery, to search out by inquiring?
and to those who in this way ask their questions according to the Scriptures, there comes, from God, the goal upon which they advance—the gift of God-given knowledge, apprehensively, through the inquiry that truly shines out by reason.
Bodhapañcadaśikā
Scriptural authority, cited as one of three possible sources (alongside grace and guru-tradition) through which recognition of ultimate reality may be attained.
From the savor of His grace alone, or from the tradition of the guru (āgama), or from scripture (śāstra) — by whatever means it has come about,
Letters
The Christian Scriptures, referenced as shared formative study and as a guide for ascetic reading.
Each of us went through the holy and divinely inspired Scriptures, and nothing then escaped you;
Do not slight the readings either, especially of the New Testament, because from the Old Testament harm often comes — not that what was written is harmful, but that the mind of those harmed is weak.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Scriptural authority invoked to support the definition of a trustworthy person as a valid source of verbal testimony.
And in scripture (āgama) too:
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Adversus Hermogenem
The scriptural text invoked as authority to distinguish God's names and refute Hermogenes.
so from him, because out of nothing — that the rationale of that Scripture too may hold good:
Diligently does Scripture support us, which has distinguished both names for him and shown each in its own time.
De Anima
The authoritative Christian scriptural writings, treated as the sole reliable textual source on the soul.
For if the soul had not a body, the image of the soul would not admit the image of a body, nor would Scripture lie about corporeal members if they were not there.
But what if the philosophers have also stumbled into those writings which among us are condemned by their confession of being apocryphal, since we are certain that nothing is to be received which does not agree with the genuine prophetic equipment that was already brought forth in that same age — seeing that we may remember both the false prophets and, much earlier, the apostate spirits, who by th …
Nor need we dwell longer on this, except on account of the heretics who stuff into the soul some spiritual seed I know not what, conferred out of the hidden bounty of their mother Sophia, without the Maker's knowledge — whereas Scripture, more conscious of its Maker, who is its own God, has promulgated nothing further than that God breathed into the face of man the breath of life, and that man bec …