Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 3:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 375, footnote 8 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 4184 (In-Text, Margin)

... man of desires, but they must be those of the spirit. For thus you would destroy the dragon that carries the greater part of his strength upon his navel and his loins, by slaying the power that comes to him from these. Do not be surprised at my giving a more abundant honour to our uncomely parts, mortifying them and making them chaste by my speech, and standing up against the flesh. Let us give to God all our members which are upon the earth; let us consecrate them all; not the lobe of the liver[Leviticus 3:4] or the kidneys with the fat, nor some part of our bodies now this now that (why should we despise the rest?); but let us bring ourselves entire, let us be reasonable holocausts, perfect sacrifices; and let us not make only the shoulder or the breast ...