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To: stfassisi

Thank you for all of your words about Peter, but I am most interested in the pure words of the Ante-Nicene Fathers at this point on the matter of that legendary 25 year Petrine Bishopric in Rome and subsequent upside down crucifixion under Nero. If you have anymore citations from the Fathers as evidence of such, please feel free to post and ping me anytime.


198 posted on 10/29/2006 5:54:19 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

"Peter...at last, having come to Rome, he was crucified head-downwards; for he had requested that he might suffer this way." Origen, Third Commentary on Genesis, (A.D. 232).

"Thus Peter, the first of the Apostles, having been often apprehended, and thrown into prison, and treated with igominy, was last of all crucified at Rome." Peter of Alexandria, The Canonical Epistle, Canon 9 (A.D. 306).

"[W]hich Peter and Paul preached at Rome..." Lactantius, The Divine Institutes, 4:21 (A.D. 310).

"Peter...coming to the city of Rome, by the mighty cooperation of that power which was lying in wait there..." Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, II:14,5 (A.D. 325).

"This man [Simon Magus], after he had been cast out by the Apostles, came to Rome...Peter and Paul, a noble pair, chief rulers of the Church, arrived and set the error right...For Peter was there, who carrieth the keys of heaven..." Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures ,6:14-15 (c. A.D. 350).

"And Peter, who had hid himself for fear of the Jews, and the Apostle Paul who was let down in a basket, and fled, when they were told, 'Ye must bear witness at Rome,' deferred not the journey; yea, rather, they departed rejoicing..." Athanasius, Defence of his Flight, 18 (c. A.D. 357).


200 posted on 10/29/2006 6:26:06 AM PST by stfassisi ("Above all gifts that Christ gives his beloved is that of overcoming self"St Francis Assisi)
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To: Uncle Chip

I see you failed to answer my question in post 97.......or did you? Based on your subsequent posts I think you may have.

The only thing I have seen from reading your posts is that you like to harass and bash Christians. Why is that?


201 posted on 10/29/2006 6:34:01 AM PST by Lil Flower ("Without Love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing." St. Therese of Lisieux)
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