Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Leviticus 21:12
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 52, footnote 12 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
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To Paula. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 846 (In-Text, Margin)
... and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left: Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people.” Rend not your clothes, he says, neither mourn as pagans, lest you die. For, for us sin is death. In this same book, Leviticus, there is a provision which may perhaps strike some as cruel, yet is necessary to faith: the high priest is forbidden to approach the dead bodies of his father and mother, of his brothers and of his children;[Leviticus 21:10-12] to the end, that no grief may distract a soul engaged in offering sacrifice to God, and wholly devoted to the Divine mysteries. Are we not taught the same lesson in the Gospel in other words? Is not the disciple forbidden to say farewell to his home ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 52, footnote 14 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
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To Paula. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 848 (In-Text, Margin)
... of his brothers and of his children; to the end, that no grief may distract a soul engaged in offering sacrifice to God, and wholly devoted to the Divine mysteries. Are we not taught the same lesson in the Gospel in other words? Is not the disciple forbidden to say farewell to his home or to bury his dead father? Of the high priest, again, it is said: “He shall not go out of the sanctuary, and the sanctification of his God shall not be contaminated, for the anointing oil of his God is upon him.”[Leviticus 21:12] Certainly, now that we have believed in Christ, and bear Him within us, by reason of the oil of His anointing which we have received, we ought not to depart from His temple—that is, from our Christian profession—we ought not to go forth to mingle ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 440, footnote 3 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
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The Conferences of John Cassian. Part II. Containing Conferences XI-XVII. (HTML)
Conference XIV. The First Conference of Abbot Nesteros. On Spiritual Knowledge. (HTML)
Chapter X. How to embrace the system of true knowledge. (HTML)
... mercy seat of God, i.e., the peace of your heart, and overshadow it from all the assaults of spiritual wickedness. And so your soul will be carried forward not only to the ark of the Divine Covenant, but also to the priestly kingdom, and owing to its unbroken love of purity being as it were engrossed in spiritual studies, will fulfil the command given to the priests, enjoined as follows by the giver of the Law: “And he shall not go forth from the sanctuary, lest he pollute the Sanctuary of God,”[Leviticus 21:12] i.e., his heart, in which the Lord promised that he would ever dwell, saying: “I will dwell in them and will walk among them.” Wherefore the whole series of the Holy Scriptures should be diligently committed to memory and ceaselessly repeated. For ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 371, footnote 5 (Image)
Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat
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Of Monks. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 930 (In-Text, Margin)
14. Therefore, my beloved, we also have received of the Spirit of Christ, and Christ dwelleth in us, as it is written that the Spirit said this through the mouth of the Prophet:— I will dwell in them and will walk in them.[Leviticus 21:12] Therefore let us prepare our temples for the Spirit of Christ, and let us not grieve it that it may not depart from us. Remember the warning that the Apostle gives us:— Grieve not the Holy Spirit whereby ye have been sealed unto the day of redemption. For from baptism do we receive the Spirit of Christ. For in that hour in which the priests invoke the Spirit, the heavens ...