Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 11:11

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 61, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 948 (In-Text, Margin)

... heaven. He has to pass through the waves of this world, and to ford its rivers; those by which the saints sat down and wept when they remembered Zion, and Chebar’s flood, whence Ezekiel was carried to Jerusalem by the hair of his head. All this Abraham undergoes that he may dwell in a land of promise watered from above, and not like Egypt, from below, no producer of herbs for the weak and ailing, but a land that looks for the early and the latter rain from heaven. It is a land of hills and valleys,[Deuteronomy 11:11] and stands high above the sea. The attractions of the world it entirely wants, but its spiritual attractions are for this all the greater. Mary, the mother of the Lord, left the lowlands and made her way to the hill country, when, after receiving ...