Quotation Notes¶
The editorial standard is simple: quotation marks mean the words are verified; paraphrase means they are not. This page logs the direct quotations from non-Scripture sources that appear in the casebook, and states the policy for the modern works that are paraphrased rather than quoted.
Policy¶
- Scripture is quoted in the ESV unless another translation is named. Short quotations are used for teaching and review, and readers should consult the full text in their own Bibles.
- Public-domain sources — the church fathers, the medieval chronicles, the Reformers, and the revival narratives — are quoted from the editions named below. Where a quotation is a translation, the translation is identified.
- Modern authors — Warfield, Gaffin, Robertson, Thomas, McDougall, Carson, Fee, Grudem, Keener, Brown, Storms, Mullin, Jenkins, and the rest — are paraphrased and cited by title and year. No modern author is quoted directly on this site except where a short phrase is placed in quotation marks and sourced on the page. This is deliberate: paraphrase cannot be mistaken for a quotation, and it keeps the casebook from trading on an author's authority rather than his argument.
- No invented quotations. If a passage could not be checked against a reliable edition, the site describes it rather than quoting it.
Log of direct quotations¶
| Source | Quotation | Edition | Status | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irenaeus, Against Heresies II.32.4 | Christians "drive out devils," prophesy, heal by laying on hands, and "the dead even have been raised up" | ANF, Roberts and Rambaut, via New Advent | verified | source library, Justin and Irenaeus |
| Irenaeus, Against Heresies V.6.1 | "Many brethren in the Church" have prophetic gifts and "speak all kinds of languages" | ANF, via New Advent | verified | source library |
| Augustine, City of God XXII.8 | Miracles "even now" in Christ's name | NPNF, via New Advent | verified | Augustine |
| John Chrysostom, Homilies on 1 Corinthians 29 | The gifts are obscure "by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place" | NPNF, via New Advent | verified | source library, the historical record |
| Quadratus, Apology, quoted in Eusebius, HE IV.3 | Those healed by Christ "lived even to our day" | NPNF, via New Advent | verified | the apostolic age |
| Justin Martyr, Second Apology 6 | "Numberless demoniacs" are healed and exorcised by Christians | ANF, via New Advent | verified | Justin and Irenaeus |
| Origen, Contra Celsum I.46 | Christians "expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events" | ANF, via New Advent | verified | Origen |
| Papias, fragments, quoted in Eusebius, HE III.39 | A dead man was raised in his day (paraphrased, not quoted) | NPNF, via New Advent | paraphrase | the apostolic age |
| Didache 11-13 | Travelling prophets are to be tested and supported (paraphrased) | Lightfoot translation, via New Advent | paraphrase | the apostolic age |
Modern works¶
The following are referred to by argument, not by quotation. Where a page names one of them, the reference is to the book's thesis, not to its wording:
- B. B. Warfield, Counterfeit Miracles (1918)
- Richard B. Gaffin Jr., Perspectives on Pentecost (1979)
- O. Palmer Robertson, The Final Word (1993)
- Robert L. Thomas, "Tongues... Will Cease" (1974)
- Donald G. McDougall, "Cessationism in 1 Cor 13:8-12" (2003)
- D. A. Carson, Showing the Spirit (1987)
- Gordon D. Fee, God's Empowering Presence (1994) and the NICNT commentary
- Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today (2000)
- Craig S. Keener, Miracles (2011) and Gift and Giver (2001)
- Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer (2012)
- Robert Bruce Mullin, Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination (1996)
- Philip Jenkins, The Next Christendom (2002)
- Sam Storms, Practicing the Power (2017)
- John Wimber, Power Evangelism (1985) and Power Healing (1987)
Full bibliographic details and links are in the reading list and the source library.
A note on Scripture quotations¶
The Scripture quotations were checked against the ESV text by the editors, but a second edition should proof every block quotation against a printed ESV before publication. Where a quotation differs from the ESV in a way that affects the argument, the page says so.
Corrections¶
If you find a quotation that is misattributed, a page number that is wrong, or a translation that has been misidentified, please report it. Corrections are more valuable than additions. See CONTRIBUTING.md.