Colossians 2:5

Cyril of Jerusalem

• Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 15

  “…of the deceivers who are to come;) Who sitteth on high, and is here present together with us, beholding the order of each, and the steadfastness of his faith.” — editor's note: Col. ii. 5.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XII.16Book XII

  “…and sing there unto Thee songs of love,—groaning with groaning unutterable in my pilgrimage, and remembering Jerusalem, with heart raised up towards it, Jerusalem my country, Jerusalem my mother, and Thyself, the Ruler over it, the Enlightener, the Father, the Guardian, the Husband, the chaste and strong…” — editor's note: Baxter has a noteworthy passage on our heavenly citizenship in his Saints’ Rest: “As Moses, before he died, went up into Mount Nebo, to take a survey of the…

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 46

  “Thou stoodest with thy body, thou fleddest in thy spirit, which was not the conduct of him who said, “Though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 5.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 98

  “Accordingly in his Epistle to the Colossians he says: “And though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and that which is lacking in your faith in Christ.”” — editor's note: Col. ii. 5.

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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.2Festal Letters

  “So well do they keep the Feast, that even the unbelievers, seeing their order, may say, ‘God is with them of a truth.’” — editor's note: τάξις, Syr. Cf. Col. ii. 5, βλέπων ὑμῶν τὴν τάξιν.

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John Chrysostom

• John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 29

  “In Him ‘are hid all the treasures of wisdom.’” ( Col. ii. 5.)” — the author cites it

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Jerome

• Jerome, Letters Letter 5

  “Wishing to do the best I can, as I cannot come in person I send you a letter instead; and thus, though absent in the body, I come to you in love and in spirit.” — editor's note: Cf. Col. ii. 5.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 44

  “When absent in body we are wont to converse together in spirit.” — editor's note: Cf. Col. ii. 5.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 13

  “If we also, in our diverse provinces, (but) present mutually in spirit, observe those very solemnities, whose then celebration our present discourse has been defending, that is the sacramental law.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. v. 3; Col. ii. 5.

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• Psalm 1:2

  Cited together in Letters Letter 5.

• Psalm 23:5

  Cited together in Letters Letter 44.

• Psalm 28:1

  Cited together in Confessions XII.16.

• Ecclesiastes 10:1

  Cited together in Letters Letter 44.

• Isaiah 26:20

  Cited together in Confessions XII.16.

• Matthew 25:1

  Cited together in Letters Letter 44.

• Romans 8:26

  Cited together in Confessions XII.16.

• Romans 12:15

  Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.

• 1 Corinthians 5:3

  Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.

• 1 Corinthians 9:19

  Cited together in On Fasting Chapter 13.

• Galatians 4:26

  Cited together in Confessions XII.16.