Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 7:26

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 291, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters

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CCEL Footnote 1672 (In-Text, Margin)

... god is meant. Again, when Abimelech came to Isaac, and he and those who were with him sware to Isaac, we are not told what kind of oath it was. As to the idols, Gideon was commanded by the Lord to make a whole burnt-offering of the bullock which he killed. And in the book of Joshua the son of Nun, it is said of Jericho that all the silver, and gold, and brass should be brought into the treasures of the Lord, and the things found in the accursed city were called sacred. Also we read in Deuteronomy:[Deuteronomy 7:26] “Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it.”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 293, footnote 1 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1674 (In-Text, Margin)

... burnt-offering; and Jericho, of which all the gold, silver, and brass was to be brought into the Lord’s treasury. Hence also the precept in Deuteronomy: “Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou become a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.”[Deuteronomy 7:25-26] From which it appears plainly, that either the appropriation of such spoils to their own private use was absolutely forbidden, or they were forbidden to carry anything of that kind into their own houses with the intention of giving to it honour; for ...