Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 17

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 242, footnote 6 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (HTML)

The Instructor (HTML)

Book II (HTML)
Chapter II.—On Drinking. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1358 (In-Text, Margin)

The natural, temperate, and necessary beverage, therefore, for the thirsty is water. This was the simple drink of sobriety, which, flowing from the smitten rock, was supplied by the Lord to the ancient Hebrews.[Exodus 17] It was most requisite that in their wanderings they should be temperate.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 220, footnote 23 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

Archelaus. (HTML)

The Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes. (HTML)

Chapter XLIV. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1993 (In-Text, Margin)

... the Lord Jesus said, “I came to send a sword upon the earth, and to set a man at variance with his neighbour,” and so on. There, Moses went without fear into the darkness of the clouds that carry water; and here, the Lord Jesus walked with all power upon the waters. There, Moses gave his commands to the sea; and here, the Lord Jesus, when he was on the sea, rose and gave His commands to the winds and the sea. There, Moses, when he was assailed, stretched forth his hands and fought against Amalek;[Exodus 17] and here, the Lord Jesus, when we were assailed and were perishing by the violence of that erring spirit who works now in the just, stretched forth His hands upon the cross, and gave us salvation. But there are indeed many other matters of this kind ...

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