The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
Ante-Nicene · to AD 325 · 3 passages across 3 books
Commentary
James 3:1
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
"And we went forth, and saw before the entrance Optatus the bishop at the right hand, and Aspasius the presbyter, a teacher,
John 16:24
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
But He who had said, "Ask, and ye shall receive," gave to them when they asked, that death which each one had wished for.
Luke 16:26
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Who died miserably with disease-his face being so eaten out with cancer, that his death caused repugnance to all men. For him I had made my prayer, and between him and me there was a large interval,