Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 11:38

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 223, footnote 5 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3104 (In-Text, Margin)

... Christ’s army. Hardly had you begun to mourn for your dead daughters when the fear of Christ dried the tears of paternal affection upon your cheeks. It was a great triumph of faith, true. But how much greater was that won by Abraham who was content to slay his only son, of whom he had been told that he was to inherit the world, yet did not cease to hope that after death Isaac would live again. Jephthah too offered up his virgin daughter, and for this is placed by the apostle in the roll of the saints.[Judges 11:34-40] I would not therefore have you offer to the Lord only what a thief may steal from you or an enemy fall upon, or a proscription confiscate, what is liable to fluctuations in value now going up and now down, what belongs to a succession of masters who ...