Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 18:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 384, footnote 3 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4613 (In-Text, Margin)

48. When Theophrastus thus discourses, are there any of us, Christians, whose conversation is in heaven and who daily say “I long to be dissolved, and to be with Christ,” whom he does not put to the blush? Shall a joint-heir of Christ really long for human heirs? And shall he desire children and delight himself in a long line of descendants, who will perhaps fall into the clutches of Antichrist, when we read that[Exodus 18:3] Moses and Samuel preferred other men to their own sons, and did not count as their children those whom they saw to be displeasing to God? When Cicero after divorcing Terentia was requested by Hirtius to marry his sister, he set the matter altogether on one side, and said that he could not ...