Colossians 2:23 (WEB)
These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body, but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
Fathers and councils · 4
Eusebius of Caesarea
“…there have reached us only those addressed to a certain Domninus, who, in the time of persecution, fell away from faith in Christ to the Jewish will-worship; and those addressed to Pontius and Caricus, ecclesiastical men, and other letters to different persons, and still another work composed by him on the so-called…” — editor's note: Of this Domninus we know only what is told us here. It is suggested by Daniell (in the Dict. of Christ. Biog. IV. 630) that this shows that the prohibition…
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Tertullian
“If flight press hard, the flesh wars with the inconvenience of flight; if imprisonment overtake us, the flesh (still was) in bonds, the flesh in the gyve, the flesh in solitude, and in that want of light, and in that patience of the world’s misusage.” — editor's note: Ad. It seems to mean flesh has strength given it, by patience, to meet the hardships of the flight. Compare the πρὸς πλησμονὴν τῆς σαρκὸς, of St. Paul in Col.…
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John Cassian
“Wherefore I pray and beseech you, you who live within the circuit of Constantinople, and who are my fellow-citizens through the love of my country, and my brothers through the unity of the faith; separate yourselves from that ravening wolf who (as it is written) devours the people of God, as if they were bread.” — editor's note: Ps. xiii. (xiv.) 4; Col. ii. 21, 23; 2 Cor. vi. 17.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Et rursus dicit: “Nemo vos seducat in voluntaria humilitatis religione, et parcimonia corporis.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 18, 23.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Church History VI.12.
Cited together in Church History VI.12.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.