Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Leviticus 19:20

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 98, footnote 7 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

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From Apostolic Teaching Tertullian Turns to that of Companions of the Apostles, and of the Law. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 964 (In-Text, Margin)

... again resumes the scabs and stains of the flesh, and “is case away outside the city into an unclean place,”—“surrendered,” to wit, “to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,”—and is no more rebuilt in the Church after his ruin. So, too, with regard to lying with a female slave, who had been betrothed to an husband, but not yet redeemed, not yet set free: “provision,” says (the Law), shall be made for her, and she shall not die, because she was not yet manumitted for him for whom she was being kept.[Leviticus 19:20] For flesh not yet manumitted to Christ, for whom it was being kept, used to be contaminated with impunity: so now, after manumission, it no more receives pardon.