Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 26:35

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 2, page 108, footnote 6 (Image)

Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425

The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus. (HTML)

Book IV (HTML)

The Deeds of Some Holy Persons who devoted themselves to a Solitary Life. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 633 (In-Text, Margin)

... exercise; but that which proceeds from the grace of God, by the practice of justice, patience, and mercy.’ That the former indeed is often developed in persons who are still subject to the passions; whereas the latter is the portion of those only who are superior to their influence, and who during the season of devotion, contemplate that peculiar light of the mind which illumines them. That luminary of the Egyptians, holy Athanasius, assures us ‘that Moses was commanded to place the table on the north[Exodus 26:35] side. Let the Gnostics therefore understand what wind is contrary to them, and so nobly endure every temptation, and minister nourishment with a willing mind to those who apply to them.’ Serapion, the angel of the church of the Thmuïtae, declared ...