Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 24:5

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 54, footnote 2 (Image)

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The Incarnation of the Word. (HTML)

On the Incarnation of the Word. (HTML)

Unbelief of Jews and scoffing of Greeks. The former confounded by their own Scriptures. Prophecies of His coming as God and as Man. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 283 (In-Text, Margin)

... express words abundantly shew. For prophets proclaimed beforehand concerning the wonder of the Virgin and the birth from her, saying: “Lo, the Virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us.” 4. But Moses, the truly great, and whom they believe to speak truth, with reference to the Saviour’s becoming man, having estimated what was said as important, and assured of its truth, set it down in these words: “There[Numbers 24:5-17] shall rise a star out of Jacob, and a man out of Israel, and he shall break in pieces the captains of Moab.” And again: “How lovely are thy habitations O Jacob, thy tabernacles O Israel, as shadowing gardens, and as parks by the rivers, and as ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 208, footnote 4 (Image)

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Life of Antony. (Vita Antoni.) (HTML)

Life of Antony. (Vita Antoni.) (HTML)

The growth of the monastic life at this time (about A.D. 305). (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1086 (In-Text, Margin)

... piety and justice. For then there was neither the evil-doer, nor the injured, nor the reproaches of the tax-gatherer: but instead a multitude of ascetics; and the one purpose of them all was to aim at virtue. So that any one beholding the cells again, and seeing such good order among the monks, would lift up his voice and say, ‘How goodly are thy dwellings, O Jacob, and thy tents, O Israel; as shady glens and as a garden by a river; as tents which the Lord hath pitched, and like cedars near waters[Numbers 24:5-6].’

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