Name this verse

[Mannyfit75]

The rule of the game is Name this verse.

These verses either come from the Bible, ECF writings, Catholic/Apologists, and writings of the saints.

I'll start out a verse, and you have to guess who quoted it.

Reasonably, the evangelists used different beginnings although the one and the same purpose of evangelization is represented. Matthew, as writing to Hebrews, composed the order of the genealogy of Christ, so that he would show that Christ had descended from this progeny, from which all the prophets had foretold him to be born. But John, based in Ephesus, made the beginning of the gospel from the reason of our redemption, of us who from the gentiles as it were did not know the law, which reason is evident from him that God wished his son to be incarnated for our salvation. Luke, however, began from Zacharias the priest so that he would declare the divinity of Christ to the gentiles by the miracle of the birth of his son and by the office of so many preachers. From which Mark too declares the ancient qualifications of the prophetic mystery of the coming of Christ so that his preaching had been proven not to be new but uttered from ancient times or account of that. The evangelists were concerned with using introductions, which each decided to set forth that for the listeners. Thus nothing is found to the contrary where even for different writings the same basis is arrived at.

[Catholic Dude]

Originally Posted by Mannyfit75

The rule of the game is Name this verse.

These verses either come from the Bible, ECF writings, Catholic/Apologists, and writings of the saints.

I'll start out a verse, and you have to guess who quoted it.

It clearly doesnt come from the Bible, and it doesnt sound like a modern day english Apologist talking so I would have to say ECF or a later Saint's writing.
I would guess ECF on the grounds they were defending the authenticity of the Gospels from heretics.

(BTW many ECFs were Saints)

[Mannyfit75]

Originally Posted by Catholic Dude

It clearly doesnt come from the Bible, and it doesnt sound like a modern day english Apologist talking so I would have to say ECF or a later Saint's writing.
I would guess ECF on the grounds they were defending the authenticity of the Gospels from heretics.

(BTW many ECFs were Saints)

Can you guess the Saint? I'll give you a hint. He knew St. John the Apostle, and his martyrdom is well documented.

[Catholic Dude]

Originally Posted by Mannyfit75

Can you guess the Saint? I'll give you a hint. He knew St. John the Apostle, and his martyrdom is well documented.

That is too much of a hint, the only ECF I know who knew St John the Apostle was St Polycarp and there is a famous "martyrdom of Polycarp" writing.