Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Joshua 18:28

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 252, footnote 19 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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Psalm LXII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2384 (In-Text, Margin)

... which is natural.” Wherefore is the latter greater in dignity? Because “the elder shall serve the younger.” …Cain first builded a city, and in that place he builded where no city was. But when Jerusalem was being builded, it was not builded in a place where there was not a city, but there was a city at first which was called Jebus, whence the Jebusites. This having been captured, overcome, made subject, there was builded a new city, as though the old were thrown down; and it was called Jerusalem,[Joshua 18:28] vision of peace, City of God. Each one therefore that is born of Adam, not yet doth belong to Jerusalem: for he beareth with him the offshoot of iniquity, and the punishment of sin, having been consigned to death, and he belongeth in a manner to a ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 268, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXV (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2541 (In-Text, Margin)

... that ye may perceive the vision of peace; that ye may endure that, sigh for this. Whereby can those two cities be distinguished? Can we anywise now separate them from each other? They are mingled, and from the very beginning of mankind mingled they run on unto the end of the world. Jerusalem received beginning through Abel, Babylon through Cain: for the buildings of the cities were afterwards erected. That Jerusalem in the land of the Jebusites was builded: for at first it used to be called Jebus,[Joshua 18:28] from thence the nation of the Jebusites was expelled, when the people of God was delivered from Egypt, and led into the land of promise. But Babylon was builded in the most interior regions of Persia, which for a long time raised its head above the ...