Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 23:19

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 139, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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To Pammachius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1985 (In-Text, Margin)

... travellers with sudden plenty. Well done. You have surpassed my poor beginning. You have reached the highest point. You have made your way from the root to the top of the tree. You are the first of monks in the first city of the world: you do right therefore to follow the first of the patriarchs. Let Lot, whose name means ‘one who turns aside’ choose the plain and let him follow the left and easy branch of the famous letter of Pythagoras. But do you make ready for yourself a monument like Sarah’s[Genesis 23:19] on steep and rocky heights. Let the City of Books be near; and when you have destroyed the giants, the sons of Anak, make over your heritage to joy and merriment. Abraham was rich in gold and silver and cattle, in substance and in raiment: his ...