Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Genesis 8:20
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 234, footnote 15 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)
To Ageruchia. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3280 (In-Text, Margin)
... case of the ark which the apostle Peter interprets as a type of the church, Noah brings in for his three sons one wife apiece and not two. Likewise of the unclean animals pairs only are taken, male and female, to shew that digamy has no place even among brutes, creeping things, crocodiles and lizards. And if of the clean animals there are seven taken of each kind, that is, an uneven number; this points to the palm which awaits virginal chastity. For on leaving the ark Noah sacrificed victims to God[Genesis 8:20] not of course of the animals taken by twos for these were kept to multiply their species, but of those taken by sevens some of which had been set apart for sacrifice.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 72, footnote 2 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of Sulpitius Severus. (HTML)
The Sacred History Of Sulpitius Severus. (HTML)
Book I. (HTML)
Chapter IV. (HTML)
Then Noah first of all erected an altar to God, and offered sacrifices from among the birds.[Genesis 8:20] Immediately afterwards he was blessed by God along with his sons, and received a command that he should not eat blood, or shed the blood of any human being, because Cain, having no such precept, had stained the first age of the world. Accordingly, the sons of Noah were alone left in the then vacant world; for he had three, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. But Ham, because he had mocked his father when senseless with wine, incurred his father’s ...