Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV Jesus, therefore, will be to them the author and teacher of such transgression, inasmuch as He commanded that one Being should be called Father,[10] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II But not even he preserved the dignity suited to the efficient cause, describing as he did certain silly vortices, together with the inertia and even foolishness of Mind. Wherefore also the Word says, "Call no man master on earth."[30] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III non dixit ad distinctionera alicujus alius sacculi, sed perinde ac si diceret: Qui in hoc nati sunt saeculo, cum per generationera sint filii, et gighunt et gignuntur; quoniam non absque generatione hanc quis vitam praetergreditur: sed haec generario, quae similem suscipit interitum, non amplius competit ei qui ab hac vita est separatus. "Unus est ergo Pater noster, qui est in coelis: "[159] sed is ipse quoque Pater est omnium per creationera. "Ne vocaveritis ergo, inquit, vobis patrein super terrain."[160] Tertullian On Repentance . Who is that father to be understood by us to be? God, surely: no one is so truly a Father;[83] Tertullian On Prayer However, our Lord very frequently proclaimed God as a Father to us; nay, even gave a precept "that we call no one on earth father, but the Father whom we have in the heavens:[10] Tertullian On Monogamy To Abraham, in fine, they appeal; prohibited though they are to acknowledge any other father than God.[30] Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer Also the Lord in His Gospel has bidden us to call "no man our father upon earth, because there is to us one Father, who is in heaven."[25] Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus For martyrs who witness themselves as the sons of God in suffering are now no more counted as of any father but God, as in the Gospel the Lord teaches, saying, "Call no man your father upon earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven."[94] Excerpts of Theodotus "Call no man, therefore, father to yourselves on earth."[37] Recognitions of Clement VIII , when we are commanded to call no man father upon earth? "[7]