Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 27:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 257, footnote 2 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3206 (In-Text, Margin)

10. And if it was a great thing for the altar never to have had an iron tool lifted upon it,[Deuteronomy 27:5] and that no chisel should be seen or heard, with greater reason, since everything dedicated to God ought to be natural and free from artificiality, it was also surely a great thing that she reverenced the sanctuary by her silence; that she never turned her back to the venerable table, nor spat upon the divine pavement; that she never grasped the hand or kissed the lips of any heathen woman, however honourable in other respects, or closely related ...