Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 16:7

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 679, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

Of Preparation For, and Conduct After, the Reception of Baptism. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8751 (In-Text, Margin)

... one un tempted should attain the celestial kingdoms.” The Lord Himself forthwith after baptism temptations surrounded, when in forty days He had kept fast. “Then,” some one will say, “it becomes us, too, rather to fast after baptism.” Well, and who forbids you, unless it be the necessity for joy, and the thanksgiving for salvation? But so far as I, with my poor powers, understand, the Lord figuratively retorted upon Israel the reproach they had cast on the Lord.[Exodus 16:7] For the people, after crossing the sea, and being carried about in the desert during forty years, although they were there nourished with divine supplies, nevertheless were more mindful of their belly and their gullet than of God. Thereupon the ...