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SECTION IV. - A. Cleveland Coxe, Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 9: The Gospel of Peter, Apocalypses and Romances, Commentaries of Origen [1896]

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Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 9: The Gospel of Peter, the Diatessaron of Tatian, the Apocalypse of Peter, the Vision of Paul, the Apocalypse of the Virgin and Sedrach, the Testament of Abraham, the Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, the Narrative of Zosimus, the Apology of Aristides, the Epistles of Clement (complete text), Origen’s Commentary of John, Books 1-10, and Commentary on Matthew, Books 1, 2, and 10-14, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Revised and Chronologically arranged with brief prefaces and occasional notes by A. Cleveland Coxe (New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1896-97).

Part of: Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers down to A.D. 325, 10 vols.

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SECTION IV.

§ 4Jo. 1, 18.1No man hath seen God at any time; the only Son, God,1 which is in the bosom of his Father, he hath told of him.

Jo. 1, 19.Jo. 1, 20.Jo. 1, 21.2And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent to him from Jerusalem priests3 and Levites to ask him, Who art thou? And he acknowledged, and denied not;4 and he confessed that he was not the Messiah. And they asked him again, What then? Art thou Elijah? And he said, I am not he. Art thou a prophet? He5 said, No. They said unto him, Then who art thou?Jo. 1, 22.Jo. 1, 23.Jo. 1, 24.Jo. 1, 25. that we may answer them that6 sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? And he said, I am the voice that crieth in7 the desert, Repair ye the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet. And they8 that were sent were from2 the Pharisees. And they asked him and said unto him, Why baptizest thou now, when thou art not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor a prophet?9 John answered and said unto them, I baptize with3 water:Jo. 1, 26.Jo. 1, 27.Jo. 1, 28. among you is standing10 one whom ye know not: this is he who I said cometh after me and was before11 me, the latchets of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. And that was in Bethany beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Mt. 3, 4.Mt. 3, 5.12Now John’s raiment was camel’s hair, and he was girded with skins, and his food13 was of locusts and honey of the wilderness.4 Then went out unto him the people of Jerusalem,Arabic, p. 15 and all Judæa, and all the region which is about the14, 15 Jordan; and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.Mt. 3, 6.Mt. 3, 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees5 and Sadducees6 coming to be baptized, he said unto them, Ye children of vipers, who hath led you to flee from the wrath to come?16, 17 Do now the fruits which are worthy of repentance;Mt. 3, 8.Mt. 3, 9. and think and say not within yourselves, We have a father, even Abraham; for I say unto you, that God is able to18 raise up of these stones children unto Abraham.Mt. 3, 10. Behold, the axe hath been laid at the roots of the trees, and so every tree that beareth not good fruit shall be taken and19 cast into the fire.Lk. 3, 10.Lk. 3, 11.Lk. 3, 12.Lk. 3, 13.Lk. 3, 14. And the multitudes were asking him and saying, What shall we do?20 He answered and said unto them, He that hath two tunics shall7 give to him that21 hath not; and he that hath food shall do likewise. And the publicans also came22 to be baptized, and they said unto him, Teacher, what shall we do? He said unto23 them, Seek not more than what ye are commanded to seek. And the servants8 of the guard asked him and said, And we also, what shall we do? He said unto them, Do not violence to any man, nor wrong him; and let your allowances satisfy you.

Lk. 3, 15.Lk. 3, 16.24And when the people were conjecturing about John, and all of them thinking25 in their hearts whether he were haply9 the Messiah, John answered and said unto them, I baptize you with water; there cometh one after me who is stronger than I, the latchets of whose shoes I am not worthy to loosen; he will baptize you with the26 Holy Spirit and fire;Arabic, p. 16 who taketh the fan in his hand to cleanse his threshing-floors, and the wheat he gathereth into his garners,Lk. 3, 17. while the straw he shall burn in fire which can10 not be put out.

Lk. 3, 18.Mt. 3, 13.Lk. 3, 23a.Jo. 1, 29.Jo. 1, 30.27And other things he taught and preached among the people.

28Then came Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized of him.29 And Jesus was about thirty years old, and it was supposed that he was the son of30 Joseph.11 And John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, This is the Lamb of31 God, that taketh on itself the burden of the sins of the world! This is he concerning whom I said, There cometh after me a man who was before me, because he was 32before me.1 And I knew him not;Jo. 1, 31.Mt. 3, 14.Mt. 3, 15. but that he should be made manifest to Israel,33 for this cause came I to baptize with water. And John was hindering him and34 saying, I have need of being baptized by thee, and comest thou to me? Jesus answered him and said, Suffer this now: thus it is our duty to fulfil all righteousness.35 Then he suffered him.Lk. 3, 21b.Mt. 3, 16b.Lk. 3, 22a.Mt. 3, 17.Jo. 1, 32.Jo. 1, 33. And when all the people were baptized, Jesus also36 was baptized. And immediately he went up out of the water, and heaven opened37 to him,2 and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in the similitude of the38 body of a dove;Arabic, p. 17 and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved39 Son, in whom I am well pleased. And John bare witness and said, I beheld the40 Spirit descend from heaven like a dove; and it abode upon him. But I knew him not; but he that sent me to baptize with water, he said unto me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt behold the Spirit descending and lighting upon him, the same is he that41 baptizeth with the Holy Spirit.Jo. 1, 34. And I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God.

Lk. 4, 1a.Mk. 1, 12.Mk. 1, 13b.Mt. 4, 2a.Lk. 4, 2b.Mt. 4, 2b, 3.42, 43And Jesus returned from the Jordan, filled with the Holy Spirit. And immediately the Spirit took him out into the wilderness, to be tried of the devil;3 and he44 was with the beasts. And he fasted forty days and forty nights. And he ate nothing45 in those days, and at the end of them he hungered. And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, speak, and these stones shall become46 bread.Mt. 4, 4.Mt. 4, 5.Mt. 4, 6. He answered and said, It is written, Not by bread alone shall man live, but47 by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil brought48 him to the holy city, and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,

  • He shall give his angels charge concerning thee:
  • And they shall take thee on their arms,
  • So that thy foot shall not stumble against a stone.

49Jesus said unto him, And4 it is written also,Mt. 4, 7.Lk. 4, 5.Lk. 4, 6. Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy50 God. And the devil5 took him up to a high mountain, and shewed him all the kingdoms51 of the earth,Arabic, p. 18 and their glory, in the least time; and the devil said unto him, To thee will I give all this dominion, and its glory, which is delivered to52 me that I may give it to whomsoever I will.Lk. 4, 7. If then thou wilt worship before me, all of it shall be thine.