2-1-2013-MORE PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS FROM AD DAYS-PART 6
*****************************HEALING*************************
"WE BESEECH THEE, SAVIOR OF ALL MEN, THOU THAT HAS ALL VIRTUE AND POWER, FATHER OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, AND WE PRAY THAT THOU WILT, FROM HEAVEN, THE HEALING POWER OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN, UPON THIS OIL, SO THAT FOR THOSE WHO ARE ANOINTED...........IT MAY BE EFFECTIVE FOR THE CASTING OUT OF EVERY DISEASE AND EVERY BODILY INFIRMITY, FOR AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST EVERY DEMON, FOR ESCAPE FROM EVERY UNCLEAN SPIRIT, FOR THE EXPULSION OF EVERY EVIL SPIRIT, FOR THE BANISHING OF EVERY FEVER AND CHILL AND EVERY WEAKNESS, FOR GOOD GRACE AND REMISSION OF SINS, FOR A REMEDY UNTO LIFE AND DELIVERANCE, FOR HEALTH AND INTEGRITY OF SOUL, OF BODY, AND OF SPIRIT, FOR PERFECT VIGOR."
*SERAPION*
"IT IS IN MANY WAYS A GRANDER VIRTUE AND A MORE SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT, TO CURE THE WEAKNESS OF ONE'S OWN SOUL, THAN THOSE OF THE BODY OF ANOTHER."
*JOHN CASSIAN*
"AM I IN HEALTH? I THANK MY CREATOR. AM I SICK? IN THIS CASE TOO, I PRAISE MY GODS WILL."
*JEROME*
***************************HEAVEN****************************
"AS...........THE SOUL EVEN NOW FINDS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO DESIRE UNHAPPINESS, SO IN FUTURE, IT SHALL BE WHOLLY IMPOSSIBLE FOT IT TO DESIRE TO SIN."
*AUGUSTINE*
*******************************HELL*****************************
"SOME THINK THAT HELL IS A DEFINITE PLACE ON THE EARTH, BUT OTHERS SUPPOSE THAT IT IS UNDER THE EARTH. IT DOES SEEM TO ME, HOWEVER, THAT IF WE CALL SOMETHING INFERNAL, BECAUSE IT IS SITUATED IN A LOWER POSITION, THEN HELL OUGHT TO BE INFERNAL TO THE EARTH , JUST AS THE EARTH, IS INFERNAL TO THE HEAVENS."
*GREGORY THE GREAT*
"HE HAS PREPARED HEAVEN, BUT HE HAS ALSO PREPARED HELL."
*ROMAN CLERGY*
"WHAT CAN THERE BE, THAT IS WORSE THAN HELL? YET, NOTHING IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN THE FEAR OF IT."
*JOHN CHRYSOSTOM*
"LET US SEE WHAT IS MEANT BY THE THREATENING OF ETERNAL FIRE. WE FIND IN THE PROPHET ISAIAH, THAT THE FIRE WITH WHICH EACH ONE IS PUNISHED, IS DESCRIBED AS HIS OWN; FOR HE SAYS, WALK IN THE LIGHT OF YOUR FIRE, AND IN THE FLAME WHICH YOU HAVE KINDLED FOR YOURSELVES. IT SEEMS TO BE INDICATED BY THESE WORDS, THAT EVERY SINNER KINDLES FOR HIMSELF, THE FLAME OF HIS OWN FIRE AND IS NOT PLUNGED INTO SOME FIRE WHICH WAS KINDLED BEFOREHAND BY SOME ONE ELSE........THE FOOD AND FUEL OF THIS FIRE, ARE OUR OWN SINS, WHICH ARE CALLED, WOOD, HAY AND STUBBLE, BY THE APOSTLE PAUL."
*ORIGEN*
"THE LORD DESCENDED INTO THE REGIONS BENEATH THE EARTH, ANNOUNCING THERE, THE GOOD NEWS OF HIS COMING."
*IRENAEUS*
"IF WE ALWAYS THINK OF HELL, WE SHALL NOT SOON FALL INTO IT."
*JOHN CHRYSOSTOM*
**********************************HERESY*********************
"THERE ARE THREE STATES OF THE SOUL---IGNORANCE, OPINION, KNOWLEDGE----THOSE WHO ARE IN IGNORANCE, ARE THE PAGANS, THOSE IN KNOWLEDGE, THE TRUE CHURCH, AND THOSE IN OPINION, ARE THE HERETICS."
*CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA*
"I WARN YOU IN ADVANCE, AGAINST WILD BEASTS, IN HUMAN SHAPES."
*IGNATIUS*
"HERETICS WILL NOT MAKE USE OF ALL THE SCRIPTURES, AND ............THEY WILL NOT QUOTE THEM ENTIRE, NOR AS THE BODY AND TEXTURE OF PROPHECY PRESCRIBE. BUT, SELECTING AMBIGUOUS EXPRESSIONS, THEY WREST THEM TO THEIR OWN OPINIONS, GATHERING A FEW EXPRESSIONS HERE AND THERE; NOT LOOKING TO THE SENSE, BUT MAKING USE OF THE MERE WORDS."
*CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA*
"FOR IT IS AS BAD AN ERROR, TO ADD TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM, AS TO ROB HIM, OF THAT WHICH IS HIS."
*JOHN CASSIAN*
"NO ONE CAN BE A BETTER CHURCHMAN, THAN ONE WHO HAS NEVER BEEN A HERETIC."
*JEROME*
"FORMERLY, THE HERETICS WERE MANIFEST, BUT NOW, THE CHURCH IS FILLED WITH HERETICS IN DISGUISE."
*CYRIL OF JERUSALEM*
"LET THEM UNLEARN WELL WHAT THEY HAD LEARNED NOT WELL AND LET THEM RECEIVE SO MUCH OF THE ENTIRE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH, AS THEY CAN UNDERSTAND: WHAT THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND, LET THEM BELIEVE."
*VINCENT OF LERINS*
****************************HOLINESS************************
"ONLY A HOLY SERVANT, CAN SERVE IN HOLINESS."
*EPIPHANIUS*
"DO NOT SUPPOSE THAT THIS HOLY KISS, IS LIKE THOSE GIVEN BY MUTUAL FRIENDS IN THE MARKET PLACE. SUCH A HOLY KISS THIS IS NOT. THIS HOLY KISS BLENDS SOULS ONE WITH ANOTHER, AND WOOS FOR THEM FORGETFULNESS OF EVERY INJURY. THIS HOLY KISS, THEN, IS A SIGN OF THE INTERMINGLING OF SOULS AND OF THE BANISHMENT OF EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF INJURY......THIS HOLY KISS, THEREFORE, IS RECONCILIATION, AND BECAUSE OF THIS, IT IS HOLY."
*CYRIL OF JERUSALEM*