The sources of De Pudicitia

1. 1 Corinthians Paul 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations · 7 passages

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   Paul's letter is directly quoted several times as scriptural authority.

   Hence too the Apostle judges, and that in a case of fornication, that such a man should be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh — rebuking also that the brethren were not being judged before the saints.

2. Book of Isaiah Isaiah 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Directly quoted prophetic text.

   "For the old things have passed away," according to Isaiah, "and the renewing is now renewed," according to Jeremiah;

3. Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Directly quoted prophetic text.

   " He too remembered that Jeremiah was forbidden by God to entreat for a people committing mortal offences.

4. Epistle to the Romans Paul 2 authority 2 citations

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   Directly quoted to argue the law is not made void by faith.

   "Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the precept holy and most good" — surely, "You shall not commit adultery.

5. First Epistle of John John 2 authority 2 citations

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   Directly quoted to establish the sin taxonomy.

   "But if," he says, "we walk in the light, we shall have fellowship with him, and the blood of Jesus Christ our Lord cleanses us from all offence.

6. First Epistle to Timothy Paul 2 authority 2 citations

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   Cited as a comparative case of handing offenders to Satan.

   Plainly the same Apostle handed over Hymenaeus and Alexander to Satan, that they might be amended not to blaspheme, as he writes to his own Timothy.

7. Psalms David 2 authority 2 citations

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   Directly quoted psalm verses.

   " You have at once in the Psalms, "Blessed is the man who has not gone away in the counsel of the impious, nor stood in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the seat of pestilence.

8. Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 1 neutral · 1 extended 2 citations · 3 passages

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   The letter whose ambiguous forgiveness passage is the crux of the dispute.

   For in truth they suspect that the Apostle Paul, in the second to the Corinthians, gave pardon to that same fornicator whom in the first he had pronounced should be handed over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh — the impious heir of his father's marriage-bed — as though he had even afterward turned his pen, writing:

9. Acts of the Apostles the Apostles 2 authority 2 citations

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   The apostolic decree is cited as the source of the abiding disciplinary rule.

   When first the Gospel thundered and shook the old things, so that it was disputed concerning the standing of the law, whether or not it was to be retained, the apostles send forth this first rule, on the authority of the Holy Spirit, to those who had begun to be chosen out from the nations:

10. The Shepherd Hermas 2 refuted 2 citations

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    Explicitly rejected as false scripture used by opponents.

    " And surely the epistle of Barnabas is more received among the churches than that apocryphal "Shepherd" of the adulterers.

11. the Gospel Jesus Christ 2 authority 2 citations · 5 passages

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    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.

12. 1 Thessalonians Paul 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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    Quoted directly in both chapters.

    But if he denounces to the Thessalonians that they should withdraw even from a brother walking idly, how much more from a fornicator?

13. Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel 1 authority 1 citation

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    Directly quoted prophetic rebuke applied to church leaders.

    In short, if you remember the prophets, when the shepherds are rebuked, it is, I think, the voice of Ezekiel:

14. Colossians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted directly at the close of chapter 17.

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

15. Deuteronomy Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted to prove no Israelite could be a tribute-collector, so publicans were heathen.

    Or, if anyone doubts that the publicans among the Jews were heathens — the Jews having been seized long since by the hand of Pompey and Lucullus — let him read Deuteronomy:

16. Ephesians Paul 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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    Quoted directly in both chapters.

    For these things have been resolved by Christ, who loves his Church, who gave himself for her, that he might sanctify her, cleansing her by the laver of water in the word, that he might present to himself a glorious Church, having no spot or wrinkle — surely after the laver — but that she should be holy and without reproach;

17. Epistle of Barnabas Barnabas 1 endorsed 1 citation

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    Quoted approvingly and called more received than the Shepherd.

    Admonishing therefore his disciples, all beginnings being omitted, to tend rather to perfection, and not again to lay the foundations of penitence from the works of the dead, he says, "For it is impossible that those who were once illuminated, and tasted the heavenly gift, and partook of the Holy Spirit, and tasted the sweet word of God — when the age is now setting, when they have fallen away — s …

18. Epistle to the Philippians Paul 1 extended 1 citation

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    Quoted to reinforce the prescription against looking back.

    and, "forgetting the things behind, we reach forth to the things before," according to the Apostle;

19. Exodus Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted and interpreted at the close of chapter 20.

    So too of the concubinage of a handmaid who had been reserved for a man, not yet redeemed, not yet freed.

20. Galatians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted directly on the works of the flesh.

    "Manifest are the works of the flesh.

21. Genesis Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted directly in chapter 16.

    " "Let us make man," says God, "after our image and likeness;

22. Gospel of John John 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted directly to support the temple-of-God argument.

    "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in three days.

23. Gospel of Matthew Matthew 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted and closely argued over in chapter 21.

    If it is because the Lord said to Peter, "Upon this rock I will build my Church;

24. Leviticus Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    Quoted at length and interpreted typologically.

    To this aspect, in short, of discipline, it was provided concerning the leper:

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

de pudicitia 6 sources

Gospel of John (account of the Lord's wounded side) · Revelation (the Apocalypse) · The Law (Decalogue) · oracle of the New Prophecy · sayings of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of Luke · the Gospel account of the paralytic's healing