Colossians, cited

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 5 authority · 2 extended 7 citations · 12 passages

   book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 4 3 passages anchored here · book 5 4 passages anchored here · book 6

   Quoted material corresponds to Colossians and is treated as authoritative teaching.

   "In Christ you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ.

2. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations

   book 5 2 passages anchored here

   The whole paragraph is an explicit exposition of this named epistle.

   If Christ is not the firstborn of creation, as the Word of the Creator through whom all things were made and without whom nothing was made;

3. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations

   de carnis resurrectione 2 passages anchored here

   Explicitly attributed 'writing to the Colossians' and quoted directly.

   In short, "If you have risen with Christ," he says, "seek the things that are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God;

4. Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 authority 1 citation

   letter 189

   Quoted directly to support the singular naming of Godhead.

   for wherever it makes mention, it makes mention of the Godhead in the singular, as, "In him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead," and elsewhere, "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.

5. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter xx.: on punishments.

   Paul's epistle to the Colossians is cited by chapter and verse in support of Christian forgiveness.

   Luke xvii.

6. De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 1

   Explicitly named as the source of the warning against philosophical seduction.

   Hence those fables and endless genealogies and unfruitful questions and discourses creeping like a cancer, from which the apostle, restraining us, expressly attests that philosophy must be guarded against, writing to the Colossians:

7. De Pudicitia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de pudicitia

   Quoted directly at the close of chapter 17.

   He shows to the Colossians too what members they should mortify upon earth: