Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 18:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 138, footnote 21 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pammachius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1979 (In-Text, Margin)

11. I hear that you have erected a hospice for strangers at Portus and that you have planted a twig from the tree of Abraham[Genesis 18:1-8] upon the Ausonian shore. Like Æneas you are tracing the outlines of a new encampment; only that, whereas he, when he reached the waters of the Tiber, under pressure of want had to eat the square flat cakes which formed the tables spoken of by the oracle, you are able to build a house of bread to rival this little village of Bethlehem wherein I am staying; and here after their long privations you propose to satisfy travellers with ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 441, footnote 5 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. (HTML)

Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy. (HTML)

To Cledonius the Priest Against Apollinarius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4706 (In-Text, Margin)

Further let us see what is their account of the assumption of Manhood, or the assumption of Flesh, as they call it. If it was in order that God, otherwise incomprehensible, might be comprehended, and might converse with men through His Flesh as through a veil, their mask and the drama which they represent is a pretty one, not to say that it was open to Him to converse with us in other ways, as of old, in the burning bush and in the appearance of a man.[Genesis 18:5] But if it was that He might destroy the condemnation by sanctifying like by like, then as He needed flesh for the sake of the flesh which had incurred condemnation, and soul for the sake of our soul, so, too, He needed mind for the sake of mind, which not only fell in ...