Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 4:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 181, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 1718 (In-Text, Margin)

... made to Elias, “I have left me seven thousand men that have not bowed knees before Baal,” far exceed that number of fishes. Therefore the hundred and fifty-three fishes doth not alone express just such a number of saints, but Scripture doth express the whole number of saints and righteous men by so great a number for a particular reason; to wit, in order that in those hundred and fifty-three all may be understood that pertain to the resurrection to eternal life. For the Law hath ten commandments:[Deuteronomy 4:13] but the Spirit of Grace, through which alone the Law is fulfilled, is called sevenfold. The number then must be examined, what mean ten and seven: ten in commandments, seven in the grace of the Holy Spirit: by which grace the commandments are ...