Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 8:33

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 380, footnote 15 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 4231 (In-Text, Margin)

... sacrifice with fire sent from God, and condemned the prophets of shame who could not do the like at his challenge. And the sevenfold looking for the cloud imposed upon the young servant; and Elissæus stretching himself that number of times upon the child of the Shunammite, by which stretching the breath of life was restored. To the same doctrine belongs, I think (if I may omit the seven-stemmed and seven-lamped candlestick of the Temple) that the ceremony of the Priests’ consecration lasted seven days;[Leviticus 8:33] and seven that of the purifying of a leper, and that of the Dedication of the Temple the same number, and that in the seventieth year the people returned from the Captivity; that whatever is in Units may appear also in Decads, and the mystery of the ...