Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 14:52

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 301, footnote 1 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Justin Martyr (HTML)

Other Fragments from the Lost Writings of Justin (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 2637 (In-Text, Margin)

By the two birds[Leviticus 14:49-53] Christ is denoted, both dead as man, and living as God. He is likened to a bird, because He is understood and declared to be from above, and from heaven. And the living bird, having been dipped in the blood of the dead one, was afterwards let go. For the living and divine Word was in the crucified and dead temple [of the body], as being a partaker of the passion, and yet impassible to God.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 224, footnote 2 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage. (HTML)

Ephraim Syrus:  Nineteen Hymns on the Nativity of Christ in the Flesh. (HTML)

Hymn I. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 366 (In-Text, Margin)

Melchizedek expected Him; as His vicegerent, looked that he might see the Priesthood’s Lord whose hyssop[Leviticus 14:52] purifies the world. Lot beheld the Sodomites how they perverted nature: for nature’s Lord he looked who gave a holiness not natural. Him Aaron looked for, for he saw that if his rod ate serpents up, His cross would eat the Serpent up that had eaten Adam and Eve. Moses saw the uplifted serpent that had cured the bites of asps, and he looked to see Him who would heal the ancient Serpent’s wound. Moses saw that he himself alone retained the ...