Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 6:16

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 591, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Examples of the Various Styles, Drawn from the Teachers of the Church, Especially Ambrose and Cyprian. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1994 (In-Text, Margin)

... following passage among others: “When Gideon was startled by the message he had heard from God, that, though thousands of the people failed, yet through one man God would deliver His people from their enemies, he brought forth a kid of the goats, and by direction of the angel laid it with unleavened cakes upon a rock, and poured the broth over it; and as soon as the angel of God touched it with the end of the staff that was in his hand, there rose up fire out of the rock and consumed the offering.[Judges 6:14-21] Now this sign seems to indicate that the rock was a type of the body of Christ, for it is written, ‘They drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ;’ this, of course, referring not to Christ’s divine nature but to His ...