Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 36

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 2, page 22, footnote 3 (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 I (HTML)

The Emperor Constantine abolishes Paganism and erects many Churches in Different Places. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 219 (In-Text, Margin)

... demolished the temple of Venus at Aphaca on Mount Libanus, and abolished the infamous deeds which were there celebrated. Why need I describe his expulsion of the Pythonic demon from Cilicia, by commanding the mansion in which he was lurking to be razed from its foundations? So great indeed was the emperor’s devotion to Christianity, that when he was about to enter on a war with Persia, he prepared a tabernacle formed of embroidered linen on the model of a church, just as Moses had done in the wilderness;[Exodus 35-40] and this so constructed as to be adapted to conveyance from place to place, in order that he might have a house of prayer even in the most desert regions. But the war was not at that time carried on, being prevented through dread of the emperor. It ...