Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 8:25

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 673, footnote 14 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

Types of the Red Sea, and the Water from the Rock. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8618 (In-Text, Margin)

How many, therefore, are the pleas of nature, how many the privileges of grace, how many the solemnities of discipline, the figures, the preparations, the prayers, which have ordained the sanctity of water? First, indeed, when the people, set unconditionally free,[Exodus 8:25] escaped the violence of the Egyptian king by crossing over through water, it was water that extinguished the king himself, with his entire forces. What figure more manifestly fulfilled in the sacrament of baptism? The nations are set free from the world by means of water, to wit: and the devil, their old tyrant, they leave quite behind, ...