Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 1:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 248, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin. (HTML)

On Original Sin. (HTML)

He Shows by the Example of Abraham that the Ancient Saints Believed in the Incarnation of Christ. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1993 (In-Text, Margin)

... then, that Abraham desired to see this equal divinity of the Son’s with the Father, without any precognition of His coming in the flesh—as certain philosophers sought Him, who knew nothing of His flesh—can that other act of Abraham, when he orders his servant to place his hand under his thigh, and to swear by the God of heaven, be rightly understood by any one otherwise than as showing that Abraham well knew that the flesh in which the God of heaven was to come was the offspring of that very thigh?[Exodus 1:5]