Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 3:30

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 352, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

City of God (HTML)

The history of the city of God from Noah to the time of the kings of Israel. (HTML)

Whether the Truth of This Promised Peace Can Be Ascribed to Those Times Passed Away Under Solomon. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1079 (In-Text, Margin)

... which I appointed judges over my people Israel.” For the judges were appointed over that people from the time when they received the land of promise, before kings had begun to be there. And certainly the son of iniquity, that is, the foreign enemy, humbled him through periods of time in which we read that peace alternated with wars; and in that period longer times of peace are found than Solomon had, who reigned forty years. For under that judge who is called Ehud there were eighty years of peace.[Judges 3:30] Be it far from us, therefore, that we should believe the times of Solomon are predicted in this promise, much less indeed those of any other king whatever. For none other of them reigned in such great peace as he; nor did that nation ever at all ...