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Acts 1:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics

." Having, on the authority of a prophecy, which occurs in a psalm of David,[204]

Acts 1:1 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

[32]

Acts 1:3 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I

The other eighteen Aeons are made manifest in this way: that the Lord, [according to them, ] conversed with His disciples for eighteen months[35]

Acts 1:3 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For thus it was that the Lord discoursed with, the disciples after His resurrection from the dead, proving to them from the Scriptures themselves "that Christ must suffer, and enter into His glory, and that remission of sins should be preached in His name throughout all the world."[360]

Acts 1:3 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Baptism

wherein, too, the resurrection of the Lord was repeatedly proved[199]

Acts 1:3 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book II

But it is recorded in the Acts, that "being seen during forty days," He expounded to His disciples "the things pertaining to the kingdom of God."[155]

Acts 1:3 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

We who have eaten and drunk with Him, and have been spectators of His wonder fill works, and of His life, and of His conduct, and of His words, and of His sufferings, and of His death, and of His resurrection from the dead, and who associated with Him forty days after His resurrection,[63]

Acts 1:4 - NIV, NAB - in Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Outpoured;[8]

Acts 1:4 - NIV, NAB - in Five Books in Reply to Marcion

A pledge;[108]

Acts 1:4 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

, ye have heard from me; for John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."[6]

Acts 1:5 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book VII

refer to a degree of spiritual influence higher than that in the passage, "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."[132]

Acts 1:5 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

And, unless I am mistaken, we have also explained what our Lord says: "John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost."[62]

Acts 1:6 - NIV, NAB - in Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Sprinkled, by speaking.[227]

Acts 1:7 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

It was necessary, therefore, that the Lord, coming to the lost sheep, and making recapitulation of so comprehensive a dispensation, and seeking after His own handiwork, should save that very man who had been created after His image and likeness, that is, Adam, filling up the times of His condemnation, which had been incurred through disobedience,-[times] "which the Father had placed in His own power."[448]

Acts 1:7 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

Quanquam haec quoque dicuntur allegorice. Propterea nec "tempora" prae finiit, "quge Pater posuit in sua potestate,"[64]

Acts 1:7 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Acts of the Apostles: "No one can know the times or the seasons which the Father has placed in His own power."[754]

Acts 1:7 - NIV, NAB - in Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topics on the Faith

As it is not for us to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in His own power,[39]

Acts 1:8 - NIV, NAB - in Origen de Principiis Book I

And on one occasion, scarcely even the apostles themselves are deemed worthy to hear the words, "Ye shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you."[85]

Acts 1:8 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book II

The Saviour gives the name of martyr to every one who bears witness to the truth He declares; thus at the Ascension He says to His disciples:[107]

Acts 1:8 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

and, "Ye shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and ill all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth."[124]

Acts 1:9 - NIV, NAB - in Fragments of the Lost Work of Justin on the Resurrection

And when He had thus shown them that there is truly a resurrection of the flesh, wishing to show them this also, that it is not impossible for flesh to ascend into heaven (as He had said that our dwelling-place is in heaven), "He was taken up into heaven while they beheld,"[21]

Acts 1:9 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

"[379]

Acts 1:9 - NIV, NAB - in Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

the other world also, and thus at length rising again, He might proceed to His Father borne aloft on a cloud.[120]

Acts 1:9 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

and to baptize them into His death by the authority of the God of the universe, who is His Father, and by the testimony of the Spirit, who is His Comforter,-we teach you all these things which He appointed us by His constitutions, before "He was received up in our sight into heaven,"[65]

Acts 1:10 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Baptism

among the disciples, and the hope of the advent of the Lord indirectly pointed to, in that, at that time, when He had been received back into the heavens, the angels[200]

Acts 1:10 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Baptism

told the apostles that "He would so come, as He had withal ascended into the heavens; "[201]

Acts 1:11 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans

For, say the [holy] oracles, "This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, in like manner as ye have seen Him go unto heaven."[25]

Acts 1:11 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ

one as magnanimous, but the other as timid; lastly, one as suffering death, the other as risen again, by means of which event they maintain a resurrection of their own also, only in another flesh. Happily, however, He who suffered "will come again from heaven,"[342]

Acts 1:11 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven in like manner as the apostles saw Him ascend, according to the appointment of the two angels?[141]

Acts 1:11 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian Against Praxeas

He will come again on the clouds of heaven, just as He appeared when He ascended into heaven.[431]

Acts 1:12 - NIV, NAB - in The Teaching of the Apostles

, and[7]

Acts 1:14 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise I On the Unity of the Church

And again: "These all continued with one mind in prayer with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren."[69]

Acts 1:14 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer

Thus also we find that the apostles, with the disciples, prayed after the Lord's ascension: "They all," says the Scripture, "continued with one accord in prayer, with the women, and Mary who was the mother of Jesus, and with His brethren."[19]

Acts 1:15 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Epistle LXVII

And this is subsequently observed, according to divine instruction, in the Acts of the Apostles, when Peter speaks to the people of ordaining an apostle in the place of Judas. "Peter," it says, "stood up in the midst of the disciples, and the multitude were in one place."[16]

Acts 1:16 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

therefore, after the resurrection of the Lord, and His assumption into the heavens, being desirous of filling up the number of the twelve apostles, and in electing into the place of Judas any substitute who should be chosen by God, thus addressed those who were present: "Men [and] brethren, this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of David, spake before concerning Judas, which was made guide to them that took Jesus. For he was numbered with us:[159]

Acts 1:18 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VII

and repented, and hanged himself, and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out;[37]

Acts 1:20 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book II

and never restored to his place? For that Aeon, whose type they declare Judas to be, after being separated from her Enthymesis, was restored or recalled [to her former position]; but Judas was deprived [of his office], and cast out, while Matthias was ordained in his place, according to what is written, "And his bishopric let another take."[113]

Acts 1:20 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI

we the twelve assembled together at Jerusalem (for Matthias was chosen to be an apostle in the room of the betrayer, and took the lot of Judas; as it is said, "His bishopric[56]

Acts 1:23 - NIV, NAB - in The Passing of Mary Latin I

These are the names of the disciples of the Lord who were brought thither in the cloud: John the evangelist and James his brother, Peter and Paul, Andrew, Philip, Luke, Barnabas, Bartholomew and Matthew, Matthias who is called Justus,[12]

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