13:1 - This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
Tertullian The Prescription Against Heretics
of all the rest, but because "by three witnesses must every word be established."[233]Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV
."[1690]Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
still retains the very formula of the law: "In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established? "[591]Tertullian On Baptism
three witnesses every word shall stand: "[47]
13:2 - I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which in time past have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
How again is it that he threatens sinners "that he will not spare" them[592]Pseudo-Cyprian Exhortation to Repentance
Also in the same: "I told you before, and foretell you as I sit present; and absent now from those who before have sinned, and to all others; as, ill shall come again, I will not spare."[54]
13:3 - Since all of you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which toward you is not weak, but is mighty in you.
Origen de Principiis Book II
and again in another passage, "Do you seek a proof of Christ, who speaketh in me? "[100]Origen de Principiis Book IV
Now, if any one were to say that, through those who are partakers of the "Word" of God, or of His "Wisdom," or His "Truth," or His "Life," the Word and Wisdom itself appeared to be contained in a place, we should have to say to him in answer, that there is no doubt that Christ, in respect of being the "Word" or "Wisdom," or all other things, was in Paul, and that he therefore said, "Do you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me? "[24]Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
Moreover Paul, the chief of the apostles, after all these sayings, gives us yet clearer instruction on the subject, when be says, "Or seek yea proof of that Christ who speaketh in me? "[486]Origen Commentary on John Book VI
"Thy mercy is better than life; "for it is on account of Christ who is life in every one that there are many lives. This, perhaps, is also the key to the passage,[24]Origen Commentary on John Book X
and "If ye seek a proof of Christ that speaketh in me."[27]
13:4 - For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus
He suffered shame on earth, while He is higher than all glory and praise in heaven; who, "though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by divine power; "[113]Origen de Principiis Book IV
This "word," then, and this "wisdom," by the imitation of which we are said to be either wise or rational (beings), becomes "all things to all men, that it may gain all; "and because it is made weak, it is therefore said of it, "Though He was crucified through weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God."[43]Hippolytus Exegetical Fragments
In this sense, also, the inspired Paul says of Him: "Though He was crucified in weakness, yet He liveth by the power of God."[31]
13:5 - Examine yourselves, whether all of you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know all of you not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except all of you be reprobates?
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III
them in according to His will. "Know ye not yourselves," says the apostle, "that Christ Jesus is in you? "[32]
13:10 - Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to destruction.
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V
-he, the preacher of a most gentle god? Yea, he even declares that "the Lord hath given to him the power of using sharpness in their presence!"[593]
13:11 - Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
2 Clement
more frequently let us attempt to make advances in the commandments of the Lord, that all being of of the same mind[135]
13:12 - Greet one another with an holy kiss.
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians
Philo and Agathopus, the deacons, my companions, salute you, "Salute one another with a holy kiss."[49]Tertullian On Prayer
our prayer ascends with more acceptability; that they may themselves participate in our observance, and thereby be mollified for transacting with their brother touching. their own peace? What prayer is complete if divorced from the "holy kiss? "[105]
13:13 - All the saints salute you.
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith
And that the holy Trinity is to be worshipped without either separation or alienation, is taught us by Paul, who says in his Second Epistle to the Corinthians: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with yon all."[80]