Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 4:5

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 565, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Anti-Marcion. (HTML)

On the Resurrection of the Flesh. (HTML)

Prophetic Things and Actions, as Well as Words, Attest This Great Doctrine. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 7482 (In-Text, Margin)

But we know that prophecy expressed itself by things no less than by words. By words, and also by deeds, is the resurrection foretold. When Moses puts his hand into his bosom, and then draws it out again dead, and again puts his hand into his bosom, and plucks it out living, does not this apply as a presage to all mankind?—inasmuch as those three signs[Exodus 4:2-9] denoted the threefold power of God: when it shall, first, in the appointed order, subdue to man the old serpent, the devil, however formidable; then, secondly, draw forth the flesh from the bosom of death; and then, at last, shall pursue all blood (shed) in judgment. On this subject we read in the writings of the same ...