Jude 1:23 (WEB)
and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“The Epistle of Jude also expresses nearly the same: “Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”” — editor's note: Jude 23.
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Tertullian
“What if, even here, you should conceive to reply that communion is indeed denied to sinners, very especially such as had been “polluted by the flesh,” but (only) for the present; to be restored, to wit, as the result of penitential suing: in accordance with that clemency of God which prefers a sinner’s…” — editor's note: Comp. Jude 23 ad fin.
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Clement of Alexandria
““But some,” he says, “save, plucking them from the fire;” “but of some have compassion in fear,” that is, teach those who fall into the fire to free themselves.” — editor's note: Ver. 23.
Read the whole comment“In the same way “the bed is ordered to be shaken up,” so that there may be no recollection of effusion in sleep, or sleep in the day-time; nor, besides, of pleasure during the night.” — editor's note: [Jude 23.]
Read the whole comment““The greater he seems to be, the more humble should he be,” says Clement in the Epistle to the Corinthians,—“such an one as is capable of complying with the precept, ‘And some pluck from the fire, and on others have compassion, making a difference,’”” — editor's note: Jude 22, 23.
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Cross-references · 17
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Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.8.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.5.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.8.