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In Koine Greek μία is the feminine form of the cardinal “one.” It agrees with feminine nouns in case, number, and gender, and can function adjectivally (“one coin”) or substantivally (“the one”). When paired with the article (ἡ) it often forms a sharp contrast with “the other” (ἡ ἑτέρα). In...

4416 prōtótokos (from 4413 /prṓtos, "first, pre-eminent" and 5088 /tíktō, "bring forth") – properly, first in time (Mt 1:25; Lk 2:7); hence, pre-eminent (Col 1:15; Rev 1:5). 4416 /prōtótokos ("firstly") specifically refers to Christ as the first to experience glorification, i.e. at His...

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more here: What the Early Church Believed: The Trinity

Tertullian, c. AD 200 We ... believe that there is one only God—but under the following dispensation, or oikonomia [Tertullian quotes the Greek word for "order," "dispensation," or "arrangement" here], as it is called—that this one only God has also a Son, his Word, who proceeded from himself...

Clement of Alexandria, c. AD 190 Though despised as to appearance, [Jesus] was in reality adored, the expiator of sin, the Savior, the clement, the Divine Word; he that is truly most apparently Deity. He is made equal to the Lord of the universe because he was his Son, and the Word was in God...

Hermas, c. AD 170 I wish to explain to you what the Holy Spirit that spoke with you in the form of the Church showed you, for that Spirit is the Son of God. (Shepherd of Hermas. Similitude 9th. Ch. 1.) Athenagoras, c. AD 177 We acknowledge ... a Son of God. Don't let anyone think it ridiculous...

Hermas, AD 100 - 160 "First of all, sir," I said, "Explain to me what is the meaning of the rock and the gate?" "This rock," he answered, "and this gate are the Son of God." "How, sir?" I said. "The rock is old, and the gate is new." "Listen," he said, "and understand, O ignorant man...

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/bowman_robert/trinity/trinity.cfm https://apostles-creed.org/confessional-reformed-christian-theology/theology/early-church-fathers-quotes-trinity/ Clement of Rome, AD 95-96 By [Jesus] the Lord has willed that we should taste of immortal knowledge, "who...

If the heavenly virtues, then, partake of intellectual light, i.e., of divine nature, because they participate in wisdom and holiness, and if human souls, have partaken of the same light and wisdom, and thus are mutually of one nature and of one essence,—then, since the heavenly virtues are...

Origen a.d. 185–254 From all which we learn that the person of the Holy Spirit was of such authority and dignity, that saving baptism was not complete except by the authority of the most excellent Trinity of them all, i.e., by the naming of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and by joining to the...

The simple, indeed, (I will not call them unwise and unlearned,) who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation (of the Three in One), on the ground that their very rule of faith withdraws them from the world’s plurality of gods to the one only true God; not...

Clement of Alexandria a.d. 153–217 O mystic marvel! The universal Father is one, and one the universal Word; and the Holy Spirit is one and the same everywhere, . . . The Instructor. Book I Chapter VI Tertullian a.d. 145–220 In the course of time, then, the Father forsooth was born, and the...

Justin Martyr a.d. 110–165 For, in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit, they then receive the washing with water. The First Apology Chapter LXI Ireneaus a.d. 120–202 The Church, though dispersed through our the whole...

Ignatius a.d. 30–107 Since, also, there is but one unbegotten Being, God, even the Father; and one only-begotten Son, God, the Word and man; and one Comforter, the Spirit of truth; and also one preaching, and one faith, and one baptism; The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians Chapter IV...

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humor related to thanksgiving The Pagan Origins of Thanksgiving lol For example, in ancient Rome they celebrated the holiday of Cerelia, which honored the harvest goddess of grain called Ceres. ... Let’s begin with the Cornucopia, which was an important symbol in ancient Greece and Rome. A...

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Cyprian quotes 1 John 5:7 in the year 250 A.D. https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050701.htm ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix | Christian Classics Ethereal Library "The Lord warns, saying, "He who is not with me scattereth." He who breaks the...