Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Leviticus 17:10
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 286, footnote 13 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
Origen. (HTML)
Origen De Principiis. (HTML)
Book II (HTML)
On the Soul (Anima). (HTML)
... the other divine and celestial powers, as well as those of an opposite kind. We nowhere, indeed, find any authority in holy Scripture for asserting that either the angels, or any other divine spirits that are ministers of God, either possess souls or are called souls, and yet they are felt by very many persons to be endowed with life. But with regard to God, we find it written as follows: “And I will put My soul upon that soul which has eaten blood, and I will root him out from among his people;”[Leviticus 17:10] and also in another passage, “Your new moons, and sabbaths, and great days, I will not accept; your fasts, and holidays, and festal days, My soul hateth.” And in the twenty-second Psalm, regarding Christ—for it is certain, as the Gospel bears ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 208, footnote 5 (Image)
Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans
A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles (HTML)
Homily XXXIII on Acts xv. 13, 15. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 769 (In-Text, Margin)
... we not write the same injunctions to Jews also? Moses discourses unto them. See what condescension (to their weakness)! Where it did no harm, he set him up as teacher, and indulged them with a gratification which hindered nothing, by permitting Jews to hear him in regard of these matters, even while leading away from him them of the Gentiles. See what wisdom! He seems to honor him, and to set him up as the authority for his own people, and by this very thing he leads away the Gentiles from him![Leviticus 17:10-14] “Being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.” Then why do they not learn (what is to be learnt) out of him, for instance * *? Through the perversity of these men. He shows that even these (the Jews) need observe no more (than these necessary ...