Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 25:9

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 286, footnote 1 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Justin Martyr (HTML)

Hortatory Address to the Greeks (HTML)

Chapter XXIX.—Origin of Plato’s doctrine of form. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2575 (In-Text, Margin)

... but not having at the same time been instructed by the initiated, that without mystic insight it is impossible to have any distinct knowledge of the writings of Moses. For Moses wrote that God had spoken to him regarding the tabernacle in the following words: “And thou shalt make for me according to all that I show thee in the mount, the pattern of the tabernacle.” And again: “And thou shalt erect the tabernacle according to the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shalt thou make it.”[Exodus 25:9] And again, a little afterwards: “Thus then thou shalt make it according to the pattern which was showed to thee in the mount.” Plato, then, reading these passages, and not receiving what was written with the suitable insight, thought that form had ...