Catena Fidei

1 Peter 5:9 (WEB)
Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Fathers and councils · 4

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 6
“Yet even against him we have no other shield than faith, an impalpable buckler against an unseen foe.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 9: Whom resist, stedfast in the faith.
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Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 20
“For our adversary the devil, as was just now read, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. v. 9.
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Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6
“But their contention is that to use the phrase “with him” is altogether strange and unusual, while “through him” is at once most familiar in Holy Scripture, and very common in the language of the brotherhood.” — editor's note: The word ἀδελφότης is in the New Testament peculiar to S. Peter (1 Peter ii. 17, and v. 9); it occurs in the Epistle of St. Clement to the Corinthians, Chap.…
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Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 68
“Because, then, the Jews, deprived of all the sanctification imparted by these mysteries, turned their light into darkness and their “feasts into mourning,” let us, dearly-beloved, prostrate our bodies and our souls and worship God’s Grace, which has been poured out upon all nations, beseeching the merciful…” — editor's note: Cf. Amos viii. 10: and below, 1 Pet. v. 9.
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