Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 28

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 2, page 82, footnote 6 (Image)

Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425

The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus. (HTML)

Book III (HTML)

Quotations from Athanasius' 'Defense of his Flight.' (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 487 (In-Text, Margin)

... oppression. Surely unless their intellects were unsound they would perceive the dilemma in which their own counsels entangle them. But since they have lost sound judgment, their folly is exposed when they vanish, and when they seek to stay they do not see their wickedness. But if they reproach those who succeed in secreting themselves from the malice of their blood-thirsty adversaries, and revile such as flee from their persecutors, what will they say to Jacob’s retreat from the rage of his brother Esau,[Genesis 28] and to Moses retiring into the land of Midian for fear of Pharaoh? And what apology will these babblers make for David’s flight from Saul, when he sent messengers from his own house to dispatch him; and for his concealment in a cave, after ...