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Galatians 5:12 (WEB)
I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

Fathers and councils · 6

Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 16
““I would,” says he, “that they were even cut off which trouble you.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 12.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 1
“…did he sin by becoming an emulator not of ancestral but of Christian traditions, wishing even the precision of them who advised the retention of circumcision.” — editor's note: See Gal. v. 12.
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Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Widows Chapter 13
“For you find it thus written: “I would that they were mutilated who desire that you should be circumcised.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 12 [very loose].
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 59
“Since the man who hath mutilated himself, in fact, is subject even to a curse, as Paul saith, “I would they were even cut offwhich trouble you.”” — editor's note: Gal. v. 12. [Whatever be the meaning of the verb in Galatians, there can be no question that the use here made of the passage is forced.—R.]
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 101Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“I would they were even cut off that trouble you, and would reintroduce a second Judaism, and a second circumcision, and a second system of sacrifices.” — editor's note: Galat. v. 12.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 19
“Nor are we concerned with Phrygian mutilations and flutes and Corybantes, and all the ravings of men concerning Rhea, consecrating people to the mother of the gods, and being initiated into such ceremonies as befit the mother of such gods as these.” — editor's note: There was a temple of Rhea in Phrygia, in which at her festivals people mutilated themselves to do her honour. The flutes alluded to served to turn the…
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