Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 31:3

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 84, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter. (HTML)

The Occasion of Writing This Work; A Thing May Be Capable of Being Done, and Yet May Never Be Done. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 716 (In-Text, Margin)

... that anything was possible of which no example ever occurred,—although I suppose you would not hesitate to admit that no camel ever passed through a needle’s eye, and yet He said that even this was possible with God; you may read, too, that twelve thousand legions of angels could possibly have fought for Christ and rescued Him from suffering, but in fact did not; you may read that it was possible for the nations to be exterminated at once out of the land which was given to the children of Israel,[Deuteronomy 31:3] and yet that God willed it to be gradually effected. And one may meet with a thousand other incidents, the past or the future possibility of which we might readily admit, and yet be unable to produce any proofs of their having ever really happened. ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 111, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter. (HTML)

He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1077 (In-Text, Margin)

... Hence arose the subject treated of in this book; and thus did it devolve on me to show that a thing was possible although no example of it could be found. We accordingly adduced certain cases out of the gospel and of the law, at the beginning of this work,—such as the passing of a camel through the eye of a needle; and the twelve thousand legions of angels, who could fight for Christ, if He pleased; and those nations which God said He could have exterminated at once from the face of His people,[Deuteronomy 31:3] —none of which possibilities were ever reduced to fact. To these instances may be added those which are referred to in the Book of Wisdom, suggesting how many are the strange torments and troubles which God was able to employ against ungodly men, by ...