Epiphanius of Salamis

Mal wieder nen schönes Kirchenväterzitat von Churchfathers.org “It is needful also to make use of tradition, for not everything can be gotten from sacred Scripture. The holy apostles handed down some things in the scriptures, other things in tradition” (Medicine Chest Against All Heresies 61:6 [A.D. 375])

Augustinus über Ehe und Scheidung

Ein paar Zitate aus dem Newsletter von ChurchFathers.org: “Neither can it rightly be held that a husband who dismisses his wife because of fornication and marries another does not commit adultery. For there is also adultery on the part of those who, after the repudiation of their former wives because of fornication, marry others. This adultery, [...]

Mary: Ever Virgin

“[Helvidius] produces Tertullian as a witness [to his view] and quotes Victorinus, bishop of Petavium. Of Tertullian, I say no more than that he did not belong to the Church. But as regards Victorinus, I assert what has already been proven from the gospel—that he [Victorinus] spoke of the brethren of the Lord not as [...]

Tradition

“As I said before, the Church, having received this preaching and this faith, although she is disseminated throughout the whole world, yet guarded it, as if she occupied but one house. She likewise believes these things just as if she had but one soul and one and the same heart; and harmoniously she proclaims them [...]

Der hl. Ambrosius und die Atome

Gott sprach durch Moses(und dieser Satz ist wörtlich gemeint): “Im Anfang hat Gott den Himmel und die Erde geschaffen.”   Der Heilige Kirchenvater Ambrosius schreibt über Moses: Er wartete nicht erst den langwierigen und vergeblichen Prozess ab, wonach die Welt aus Atomverbindungen sich zusammenfügte, und [wartete] nicht sozusagen auf einen Schüler der Materie, der letztere [...]