Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 26:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 137, footnote 7 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pammachius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1949 (In-Text, Margin)

... family, and which Scipio won before his time as the reward of valour,—this great office is now obtained by merely belonging to the army; and the shining robe of victory now envelops men who a little while ago were country boors. Thus we have received more than we have given. The things we have renounced are small; the things we possess are great. All that Christ promises is duly performed and for what we have given up we have received an hundredfold. This was the ground in which Isaac sowed his seed,[Genesis 26:12] Isaac who in his readiness to die bore the cross of the Gospel before the Gospel came.