Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 9:46

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 553, footnote 1 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2409 (In-Text, Margin)

... was full of sick persons, who sacrificed to him daily, Astaruth could give no response; and sick persons who had come from far countries were lying there. When, therefore, in that temple not even one of the idols was able to give a response, and was of benefit neither to those that sacrificed to them nor to those who were in the agonies of death on their account, they were compelled to go to another city, where there was a temple of idols, where their great and most eminent god was called Becher.[Judges 9:46] And having there sacrificed, they demanded, asking why their god Astaruth had not responded to them. And the demon Becher answered and said to them: From the day and hour that the true God, who dwelleth in the heavens, sent his apostle Bartholomew ...