Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Deuteronomy 28:12
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 619, footnote 3 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
Origen. (HTML)
Origen Against Celsus. (HTML)
Book VII (HTML)
Chapter XVIII (HTML)
... themselves, who for the purity of their lives received the Divine Spirit, “wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.” For, as the Psalmist, says, “many are the afflictions of the righteous.” If Celsus had read the writings of Moses, he would, I daresay, have supposed that when it is said to him who kept the law, “Thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou thyself shalt not borrow,”[Deuteronomy 28:12] the promise is made to the just man, that his temporal riches should be so abundant, that he would be able to lend not only to the Jews, not only to two or three nations, but “to many nations.” What, then, must have been the wealth which the just ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 14, page 436, footnote 6 (Image)
Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews
The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews. (HTML)
Hebrews 8.1,2 (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3017 (In-Text, Margin)
And besides, I do not concede that the words “the heaven shall be new” (Isa. lxv. 17), were spoken concerning this. For why, when saying in Deuteronomy “the heaven shall be of brass,” did he not set down this in the contrasted passage,[Deuteronomy 28:12] “but if ye hearken, it shall be new.”