Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Exodus 25:24
There is 1 footnote for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 500, footnote 4 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book VI (HTML)
Chapter XI.—The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music. (HTML)
They add, then, the twelve cubits, agreeably to the revolution of the twelve months, in the annual circle, during which the earth produces and matures all things; adapting itself to the four seasons. And the table, in my opinion, exhibits the image of the earth, supported as it is on four feet, summer, autumn, spring, winter, by which the year travels. Wherefore also it is said that the table has “wavy chains;”[Exodus 25:24] either because the universe revolves in the circuits of the times, or perhaps it indicated the earth surrounded with ocean’s tide.