Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 13:23

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 354, footnote 9 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3940 (In-Text, Margin)

IX. Wherefore we must purify ourselves first, and then approach this converse with the Pure; unless we would have the same experience as Israel, who could not endure the glory of the face of Moses, and therefore asked for a veil; or else would feel and say with Manoah “We are undone O wife, we have seen God,”[Judges 13:23] although it was God only in his fancy; or like Peter would send Jesus out of the boat, as being ourselves unworthy of such a visit; and when I say Peter, I am speaking of the man who walked upon the waves; or like Paul would be stricken in eyes, as he was before he was cleansed from the guilt of his persecution, when he conversed with Him ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 395, footnote 10 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 1115 (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; the Philistines in the days of Samson,[Judges 13:1-24] 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 much, they did not ...