Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 11:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 395, footnote 9 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 1114 (In-Text, Margin)

7. As to those that reproach us (saying):—“Ye are persecuted and are not delivered,” let them be ashamed themselves, that at every time they have been persecuted, even for many years before they were delivered. They were made to serve in Egypt two hundred and twenty-five years. And the Midianites made Israel serve in the days of Barak and Deborah. The Moabites ruled over them in the days of Ehud; the Ammonites in the days of Jephthah;[Judges 11:5] the Philistines in the days of Samson, and also in the days of Eli and of Samuel the Prophet; the Edomites in the days of Ahab; the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah. The king of Babylon uprooted them from their place and dispersed them; and after he had tried and persecuted them ...