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St. Hippolytus’ Exegesis of Daniel

In this post I will be sharing St. Hippolytus’ lengthy explanation of the Daniel’s prophecies as it relates to the coming of Christ. It is taken from the work titled, Some Exegetical Fragments of Hippolytus. Before I do so I provide a summary of this blessed saint’s awe-inspiring

St. Cyril’s Praise of Mary

At the Council of Ephesus (431 AD), the blessed St. Cyril of Alexandria uttered a litany of praise to the blessed Mother of our God Incarnate in honor of her being the holy and pure God-bearer. Here’s what this holy servant of Christ wrote: “Mary, Mother of God, we

Divine Name Christology

The Hebrew Bible often equates God’s Name with God himself, which is why blaspheming the Name or using it in vain makes a person guilty of a heinous sin punishable by death: “You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain, for Yahweh will not leave

Samuel Clarke’s Trinitarian Subordinationism

Dr. Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) was a Church of England divine who became the rector of the parish church of St. James, Westminster, a position he held until his death in 1729. Clarke became the focus of intense and heated controversy due to his unorthodox, “heterodox” views of the Trinity, which

Justin Martyr on Isa. 42:8 & Christ’s Glory

In this post I will be excerpting a section from St. Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, in which the blessed saint sets out to prove the following: 1. The Scriptures are inerrant, having no real contradictions. 2. The Jewish elders reject specific verses from the Greek version

Polycarp, Pope Anicetus, Irenaeus & Easter

Church historian Eusebius recorded the early controversy that arose among the faithful in respect to the celebration of Easter. Some Christians such as Polycarp insisted that the Church should follow the example within the Gospels by observing it on the fourteenth day of Nisan, which is the date fixed by

The God Who Is Tri-Personal

The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 241-255. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts

Hermas’ Trinitarianism

In this post I revisit the theology of the book known as the Shepherd of Hermas in order to show that this is a very early Christian witness to the Church’s belief in the Trinity and the Son’s essential coequality with the Father. Many scholars date the writing

Christ: God of God

The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts and James

Christ: Begotten Not Made

The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts and James