19, 3
“Wherever it shall be clear that the truth of the Christian discipline and faith are
present, there also will be found the truth of the Scriptures and of their
explanation, and of all the Christian traditions.”
36, 1
“How happy is that Church...where Peter endured a passion like that of the Lord,
where Paul was crowned in a death like John’s.”
28, 1
“Grant, then, that all have erred; that the Apostle was mistaken in bearing
witness; that the Holy Spirit had no such consideration for any one Church as to
lead it into truth, although He was sent for that purpose by Christ, who had asked
the Father to make Him the Teacher of truth; that the Steward of God and Vicar of
Christ neglected His office, and permitted the Churches for a time to understand
otherwise and to believe otherwise than He Himself had preached through the
Apostles: now, is it likely that so many and such great Churches should have gone
astray into a unity of faith?”
On Prayer (Inter 200-206 AD):
6, 2
“This petition ‘Give us today our daily bread’ we understand rather in a spiritual
sense, for Christ is our bread because he is life and bread of life. ‘I am the bread
of life,’ he says, and, a little earlier, ‘The bread is the word of the living God that
has come down from heaven.’ In addition, his body is a kind of bread: ‘This is my
body.’ Consequently, in asking for daily bread, we are asking to live forever in
Christ and never to be separated from his body.”
To My Wife (Inter 200-206 AD):
2, 8, 6
“How shall we suffice for the telling of that happiness of that marriage which the
Church arranges, which the sacrifice strengthens, on which the blessing sets a
seal, which the angels proclaim, and which has the Father’s approval?”
On Baptism (Inter 200 - 206 AD):
18, 4
“According to circumstance and disposition and even age of the individual person,
it may be better to delay Baptism; and especially so in the case of little children.
Why, is it necessary - if it be not a case of necessity - that the sponsors too be
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