the Scriptures
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Stromata
The Scriptures, referenced as the textual authority behind much of the argument.
And the Scripture knows as slaves those who are under sin and sold to sins, the lovers of pleasure and lovers of the body, and as beasts rather than men those who have been made like the cattle, "horses mad for the female, neighing after their neighbours' wives";
for the Scripture will find one man who understands it.
The gnostic alone, then, for us, having grown old in the very Scriptures, preserving the apostolic and ecclesiastical right division of the doctrines, lives most rightly according to the Gospel, finding out, sent back by the Lord to the Law and the prophets, whatever demonstrations he may seek.
Adversus Praxean
The scriptural texts treated as the authoritative source for settling doctrine.
and so the matter itself will lay claim to its own form, with the Scriptures and their interpretations to plead its case.
But you will have to prove it as plainly from the Scriptures as we prove that he made his own Word a son to himself.
For the Apostle too, not without weight, in pronouncing Christ dead, adds, "according to the Scriptures," that he might soften the hardness of the pronouncement by the authority of the Scriptures and avert offence from the hearer.
De Carne Christi
The scriptural texts used by the opposing side and turned against them in argument.
And the discussion of this alone could have sufficed, apart from the engagement with the several opinions from the opposite side, which, over and above, we have challenged both by their arguments and by the Scriptures which they use;
De Carnis Resurrectione
The Scriptures collectively, whose wording and interpretation are the central object of dispute.
Thus far I have wrought with foundation-layings to fortify the senses of all the Scriptures which promise the return of the flesh.
Which things, although we are wont to interpret spiritually too, according to the comparison of the vices of the soul healed by the Lord, yet since they were fulfilled carnally as well, show that the prophets prophesied in both kinds — saving the fact that very many of their voices can be defended as bare and simple and pure of every cloud of allegory:
For that this is not the true death which lies in the midst, the parting of flesh and soul, but ignorance of God, through which a man dead to God has lain in error no less than in a sepulchre.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
The sacred scriptural texts, described as a source of spiritual engagement for the continent believer.
If he leans upon the Scriptures, he is wholly there.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
The Christian Scriptures, whose rightful ownership and interpretation the treatise disputes with heretics.
If these are their strength, that they may be able to have it, it must be examined to whom the possession of the Scriptures belongs, lest he be admitted to them to whom it in no way belongs.
For even if the comparison of the Scriptures did not so turn out as to set both parties on a par, the order of things demanded that that should first be proposed which alone is now to be disputed:
But that other man — if there is anyone for whose sake you go down into the engagement of the Scriptures, to confirm him in his doubt — will he incline toward the truth, or rather toward the heresies?