Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Leviticus 24:2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 123, footnote 5 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Apologetic. (HTML)
Ad Nationes. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort. (HTML)
... even admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have selected its day, in preference to the preceding day as the most suitable in the week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers. For the Jewish feasts on the Sabbath and “the Purification,” and Jewish also are the ceremonies of the lamps,[Leviticus 24:2] and the fasts of unleavened bread, and the “littoral prayers,” all which institutions and practices are of course foreign from your gods. Wherefore, that I may return from this digression, you who reproach us with the sun and Sunday should consider ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 159, footnote 25 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)
Appendix (HTML)
Five Books in Reply to Marcion. (HTML)
Of Marcion's Antitheses. (HTML)
215 Thereto; that, with peace[Leviticus 24:2] granted, flesh might bloom
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 330, footnote 3 (Image)
Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Methodius. (HTML)
The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity. (HTML)
Agathe. (HTML)
What the Oil in the Lamps Means. (HTML)
Now they offered, in Leviticus,[Leviticus 24:2-3] oil of this kind, “pure oil olive, beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually, without the veil…before the Lord.” But they were commanded to have a feeble light from the evening to the morning. For their light seemed to resemble the prophetic word, which gives encouragement to temperance, being nourished by the acts and the faith of the people. But the temple (in which the light was kept burning) refers to “the lot of their inheritance,” inasmuch as a light can ...