The sources of Adversus Praxean

1. Gospel of John John 3 authority 3 citations · 14 passages

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   Johannine sayings are repeatedly cited as scriptural authority for the Word's divinity and distinct personhood.

   and so it is now usual among our people, through the simplicity of translation, to say that the Word was in the beginning with God, although it would be more fitting that Reason be held the more ancient, since God is not "verbal" from the beginning but rational even before the beginning, and since the Word itself, subsisting by Reason, shows that Reason was prior, as being its own substance.

2. Gospel of Matthew Matthew 2 authority · 1 neutral 3 citations · 4 passages

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   The Transfiguration saying from Matthew is directly quoted as confirming evidence.

   and last of all commanding that they should baptize into the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, not into one.

3. Isaiah Isaiah 3 authority 3 citations · 7 passages

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   Isaiah is repeatedly cited as prophetic authority for the Father addressing the Son and vice versa.

   For, being ignorant that from the beginning the whole order of the divine disposition ran its course through the Son, they believe the Father himself to have been seen and met with and to have wrought, and to have suffered thirst and hunger (against the prophet who says, "The eternal God shall neither thirst nor hunger at all" — how much less shall he die or be buried?

4. Psalms the Psalmist 3 authority 3 citations · 8 passages

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   Psalm texts are quoted and relied on as scriptural authority for the argument.

   "By his Word the heavens were established, and by his Spirit all their powers.

5. 1 John John the Apostle 2 authority 2 citations

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   1 John is directly quoted as apostolic testimony.

   "What we have seen," says John, "what we have heard, with our eyes we have seen, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life.

6. Genesis Moses 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

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   The Genesis creation account is cited repeatedly as authoritative evidence for plural divine persons acting in creation.

   "And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

7. Gospel of Luke Luke 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

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   Luke is named directly as an evangelist whose account the devil dismisses.

   For the rest, not to bring in the other Gospels, which confirm faith by the Lord's nativity, it suffices that he who was to be born of the virgin was determined by the angel himself, in his announcement, the Son of God.

8. Proverbs Solomon 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Proverbs' Wisdom passages are cited as evidence of the Son's pre-existence and generation.

   Or, if he stretched out the heaven thus alone, how do these heretics presume perversely, as though singular Wisdom were not admitted, who says, "When he prepared the heaven, I was present with him"?

9. Romans Paul 2 authority 2 citations · 6 passages

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   Romans texts are directly quoted multiple times.

   "Whose are the fathers, and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is over all God blessed for ever.

10. Acts of the Apostles Luke 2 authority 2 citations

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    Acts is directly cited via Peter's preaching.

    "Most High," inasmuch as he is exalted by the right hand of God, as Peter preaches in the Acts;

11. 1 Corinthians Paul 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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    1 Corinthians texts are directly quoted as apostolic authority.

    "For who knows the things that are in God, except the Spirit which is in him?

12. 1 Timothy Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    The letter to Timothy is directly quoted concerning the invisible God.

    Likewise, if the same is visible after the flesh, how is he now too pronounced invisible by the Apostles, except because he is another — whom, even formerly seen in a riddle, the flesh made more fully visible, namely the Word, who was also made flesh — another whom no one ever saw, except the Father, namely whose the Word is?

13. Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah 1 authority 1 citation

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    Explicitly cited by name as a prophetic proof text.

    the Scripture interpreting from outside that they did not know what he had said about the Father — when in fact they ought to have known that the words of the Father were in the Son, by reading in Jeremiah, "And the Lord said to me, Behold I have given my words in your mouth";

14. Daniel Daniel 1 authority 1 citation

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    Daniel's vision of angelic hosts is cited to argue plurality does not divide the monarchy.

    Therefore, if even the divine monarchy is administered through so many legions and armies of angels — as it is written, "Thousand thousands stood before him, and ten thousand times ten thousand appeared before him" — and yet has not ceased to be one man's so as to cease being a monarchy, because it is carried on through so many thousands of powers:

15. Epistle to the Galatians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Explicitly named as addressed to the Galatians and quoted.

    when to the Galatians, he asserts himself an apostle not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father.

16. Exodus Moses 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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    Exodus material is directly quoted and relied upon.

    For the rest, how can it be that that almighty God, the invisible, whom no man has seen nor can see, he who dwells in unapproachable light, he who dwells not in things made with hands, at whose sight the earth trembles, the mountains melt like wax, who grasps the whole world in his hand like a nest, to whom heaven is a throne and earth a footstool, in whom is every place, while he is himself not i …

17. Hebrews the Apostle 1 authority 1 citation

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    The 'made a little lower than the angels' text is used as scriptural authority for the Son's incarnate suffering.

    and whatever else the heretics seize upon as unworthy of God, for the destruction of the Creator, not knowing that these things befit the Son — who was also to undergo human passions, both thirst and hunger and tears and the very nativity and the very death — for which cause he was made a little lower than the angels by the Father.

18. Lamentations Jeremiah 1 authority 1 citation

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    The Lamentations text is directly quoted to support the argument.

    " Therefore, if Christ is the Spirit of the Father's person, the Spirit deservedly pronounced him whose person he was — that is, the Father — to be his own face, namely out of unity.

19. Numbers Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    The Numbers text on prophetic speech is directly quoted.

    "If there be a prophet among you, in vision shall I be known to him, and in a dream shall I speak to him, not as to Moses;

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adversus praxean 9 sources

Apocalypse of John · Exodus (the Decalogue) · Genesis (alternate Hebrew reading) · Pauline epistles · Valentinian doctrine of Aeons · prophecies of Montanus, Prisca, and Maximilla · the Law of Moses · the New Prophecy · the teaching of Valentinus