Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Judges 16:17
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 117, footnote 5 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)
On the Holy Spirit. (HTML)
Book II. (HTML)
Introduction. (HTML)
16. But what does it profit me, if God Himself knows all my hairs? That rather abounds and profits me, if the watchful witness of good works reward me with the gift of eternal life. And, in fine, Samson himself, declaring that these hairs are not mystical, says: “If I be shorn my strength will depart from me.”[Judges 16:17] So much concerning the mystery, let us now consider the order of the passage.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 117, footnote 8 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)
On the Holy Spirit. (HTML)
Book II. (HTML)
Chapter I. The Spirit is the Lord and Power; and in this is not inferior to the Father and the Son. (HTML)
17. Above, you read that “the Lord blessed him, and the Spirit of the Lord began to go with him.” Farther on it is said: “And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him.” Again he says: “If I be shaven, my strength will depart from me.”[Judges 16:17] After he was shaven, see what the Scripture says: “The Lord,” he says, “departed from him.”