Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Exodus 1:17
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 3, page 495, footnote 6 (Image)
Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises
Moral Treatises of St. Augustin (HTML)
Against Lying. (HTML)
Section 32 (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2444 (In-Text, Margin)
32. But, as for that which is written, that God did good to the Hebrew midwives, and to Rahab the harlot of Jericho,[Exodus 1:17-20] this was not because they lied, but because they were merciful to God’s people. That therefore which was rewarded in them was, not their deceit, but their benevolence; benignity of mind, not iniquity of lying. For, as it would not be marvellous and absurd if God on ac count of good works after done by them should be willing to forgive some evil works at another time before committed, so it is not to be marvelled at that God beholding at ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 5, page 71, footnote 3 (Image)
Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises; Select Writings and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises. (HTML)
Against Eunomius. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
He falsely imagines that the same energies produce the same works, and that variation in the works indicates variation in the energies. (HTML)
... same energies producing sameness of works, and different works indicating difference in the energies as well.” Finely and irresistibly does this noble thinker plead for his doctrine. “The same energies produce sameness of works.” Let us test this by facts. The energy of fire is always one and the same; it consists in heating: but what sort of agreement do its results show? Bronze melts in it; mud hardens; wax vanishes: while all other animals are destroyed by it, the salamander is preserved alive[Exodus 1:17]; tow burns, asbestos is washed by the flames as if by water; so much for his ‘sameness of works from one and the same energy.’ How too about the sun? Is not his power of warming always the same; and yet while he causes one plant to grow, he withers ...