Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 13:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 430, footnote 19 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 4645 (In-Text, Margin)

... steal whatever idols of your father you can find; not, however, that you may keep them, but that you may destroy them; and if you are a wise Israelite remove them to the Land of the Promise, and let the persecutor grieve over the loss of them, and learn through being outwitted that it was vain for him to tyrannize over and keep in bondage better men than himself. If thou doest this, and comest out of Egypt thus, I know well that thou shalt be guided by the pillar of fire and cloud by night and day.[Exodus 13:20] The wilderness shall be tamed for thee, and the Sea divided; Pharaoh shall be drowned; bread shall be rained down: the rock shall become a fountain; Amalek shall be conquered, not with arms alone, but with the hostile hand of the righteous forming ...