Ante-Nicene Christianity

Whatever came first is true. Truth is from the beginning.

Decalogue

If anyone does not observe the Decalogue, he has no salvation. Irenaeus (c. 180, E/W), 1.479

Preparing man for this life, the Lord Himself did speak the words of the Decalogue in His own person to all alike. Therefore, in like manner, do these commandments remain permanently with us. Because of His advent in the flesh, they have received extension and increase, but not abrogation. Irenaeus (c. 180, E/ W), 1.482

We have the Decalogue given by Moses. Using elementary principles (ones that are simple and limited to one thing), it defines the designation of sins in a way that is conducive to salvation. Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.292

For he who will have kept the undertaking of virginity completely and will have faithfully fulfilled the precepts of the Decalogue . . . he is the true priest of Christ. Victorinus (c. 280, W), 7.359

O virgins, the ten horns and stings . . . are the ten opposites to the Decalogue. Methodius (c. 290, E), 6.340

 

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