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Goods?

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From him there is no liberality to dependents, no communication to the poor. And yet such people call that their own money, which they guard with jealous labour, shut up at home as if it were another’s, and from which they derive no benefit either for their friends, for their children, or, in fine, for themselves. Their possession amounts to this only, that they can keep others from possessing it; and oh, what a marvellous perversion of names! they call those things goods, which they absolutely put to none but bad uses. Cyprian of Carthage. 1886. “The Epistles of Cyprian.” … Continue reading Goods?

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That ye may stand perfect and complete

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“Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.” – Colossians 4:12–13 Love the people at the end of Paul’s letters that he recognizes. Keep praying for those you care about in the Lord and may it be said of us that we “hath a great zeal” for those we are “fervently” praying for … Continue reading That ye may stand perfect and complete

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The ever-living One

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He who is spiritual sought out the earthy in the womb; He who is the ever-living One sought out him who, through disobedience, is subject to death; He who is heavenly called the terrene to the things that are above; He who is the nobly-born sought, by means of His own subjection, to declare the slave free; He transformed the man into adamant who was dissolved into dust and made the food of the serpent, and declared Him who hung on the tree to be Lord over the conqueror, and thus through the tree He is found victor. Hippolytus of … Continue reading The ever-living One

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He who fixed the heavens

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The message that changed the world one heart at a time! “I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ” – Isaiah 49:6b “I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles…” – Isaiah 42:6b “Behold, My Servant shall deal prudently; He shall be exalted and extolled and be very high. Just as many were astonished at you, So His visage was marred more than any man, And His form more than the sons of … Continue reading He who fixed the heavens

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Unto the endless ages of the ages

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Paul had complete confidence that Christ would endure the ages to come as He said He would to the end of the ages and so did Hypolytus in 200 AD and many other believers thruout the centuries. And here we are 2 millenia later! They was right! “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” – Ephesians 3:20-21 You can trust Jesus in this age too! … Continue reading Unto the endless ages of the ages

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John 12:32-33

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Isaiah was given this prophecy hundreds of years before Christ and Christianity. “I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ” – Isaiah 49:6b “I will keep You and give You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the Gentiles” – Isaiah 42:6b This is no small prophecy. Only Jesus and Christianity fit the bill! You can trust in Jesus as your light and salvation as millions if not billions of others have thruout the history of the world and continue to … Continue reading John 12:32-33

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Marcia, the God-loving concubine

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But after a time, there being in that place other martyrs, Marcia, a concubine of Commodus, who was a God-loving female, and desirous of performing some good work, invited into her presence the blessed Victor, who was at that time a bishop of the Church, and inquired of him what martyrs were in Sardinia. And he delivered to her the names of all, but did not give the name of Callistus, knowing the villanous acts he had ventured upon. Marcia, obtaining her request from Commodus, hands the letter of emancipation to Hyacinthus, a certain eunuch, rather advanced in life. And … Continue reading Marcia, the God-loving concubine

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Filling up the islands

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“Listen, O coastlands, to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! The Lord has called Me from the womb; From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name…..And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore … Continue reading Filling up the islands

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The way of salvation

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Our object is, that the reader, not only when made acquainted with the overthrow of those who have presumed to establish heresies, may regard with scorn their idle fancies, but also, when brought to know the power of the truth, may be placed in the way of salvation, by reposing that faith in God which He so worthily deserves. Hippolytus of Rome. 1886. “The Refutation of All Heresies.” In Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Novatian, Appendix, edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe, translated by J. H. MacMahon, 5:139. The Ante-Nicene Fathers. Buffalo, NY: Christian … Continue reading The way of salvation