Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 33:13

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 245, footnote 3 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Justin Martyr (HTML)

Dialogue with Trypho (HTML)

Chapter XCI.—The cross was foretold in the blessings of Joseph, and in the serpent that was lifted up. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2305 (In-Text, Margin)

... for the coming together of the months, and for the heights of the everlasting mountains, and for the heights of the hills, and for the ever-flowing rivers, and for the fruits of the fatness of the earth; and let the things accepted by Him who appeared in the bush come on the head and crown of Joseph. Let him be glorified among his brethren; his beauty is [like] the firstling of a bullock; his horns the horns of an unicorn: with these shall he push the nations from one end of the earth to another.’[Deuteronomy 33:13-17] Now, no one could say or prove that the horns of an unicorn represent any other fact or figure than the type which portrays the cross. For the one beam is placed upright, from which the highest extremity is raised up into a horn, when the other beam ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 61, footnote 4 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Hexæmeron. (HTML)

“The Earth was Invisible and Unfinished.” (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1423 (In-Text, Margin)

... appeared through the water? Because the air which surrounded it was still without light and in darkness. The rays of the sun, penetrating the water, often allow us to see the pebbles which form the bed of the river, but in a dark night it is impossible for our glance to penetrate under the water. Thus, these words “the earth was invisible” are explained by those that follow; “the deep” covered it and itself was in darkness. Thus, the deep is not a multitude of hostile powers, as has been imagined;[Deuteronomy 33:13] nor “darkness” an evil sovereign force in enmity with good. In reality two rival principles of equal power, if engaged without ceasing in a war of mutual attacks, will end in self destruction. But if one should gain the mastery it would completely ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 70, footnote 8 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Hexæmeron. (HTML)

On the Firmament. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1507 (In-Text, Margin)

... account of the density and continuity of the air within our ken, and deriving its name “heaven” from the word which means to see. It is of it that Scripture says, “The fowl of the air,” “Fowl that may fly…in the open firmament of heaven;” and, elsewhere, “They mount up to heaven.” Moses, blessing the tribe of Joseph, desires for it the fruits and the dews of heaven, of the suns of summer and the conjunctions of the moon, and blessings from the tops of the mountains and from the everlasting hills,[Deuteronomy 33:13-15] in one word, from all which fertilises the earth. In the curses on Israel it is said, “And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass.” What does this mean? It threatens him with a complete drought, with an absence of the aerial waters which ...