Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 10:11

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 129, footnote 5 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

Appendix (HTML)

A Strain of Sodom. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1215 (In-Text, Margin)

The rain-clouds’ proper baldric.[Genesis 10:8-17]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 60, footnote 16 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

Paula and Eustochium to Marcella. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 941 (In-Text, Margin)

What are God’s first words to Abraham? “Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred unto a land that I will show thee.” The patriarch—the first to receive a promise of Christ—is here told to leave the Chaldees, to leave the city of confusion and its rehoboth[Genesis 10:11] or broad places; to leave also the plain of Shinar, where the tower of pride had been raised to heaven. He has to pass through the waves of this world, and to ford its rivers; those by which the saints sat down and wept when they remembered Zion, and Chebar’s flood, whence Ezekiel was carried to Jerusalem by the hair of his head. All this Abraham undergoes that ...