Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 5

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 266, footnote 2 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Justin Martyr (HTML)

Dialogue with Trypho (HTML)

Chapter CXXXII.—How great the power was of the name of Jesus in the Old Testament. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2464 (In-Text, Margin)

... and not go down for thirty-six hours, as well as all the other miracles which were wrought for you as time served; and of these it seems good to me now to speak of another, for it conduces to your hereby knowing Jesus, whom we also know to have been Christ the Son of God, who was crucified, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, and will come again to judge all men, even up to Adam himself. You are aware, then,” I continued, “that when the ark of the testimony was seized by the enemies of Ashdod,[1 Samuel 5] and a terrible and incurable malady had broken out among them, they resolved to place it on a cart to which they yoked cows that had recently calved, for the purpose of ascertaining by trial whether or not they had been plagued by God’s power on ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 40, footnote 5 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great. (HTML)

Book IX. (HTML)

From S. Columbanus to Pope Gregory. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 100 (In-Text, Margin)

... support of thy judgment, and disdain not to send us speedily the suffrage of thy Placability for assuaging this tempest which surrounds us; since, after so many authors whom I have read, I am not satisfied with that one sentence of those bishops who say only, We ought not to keep the Passover with the Jews. For this is what the bishop Victor formerly said; but none of the Easterns accepted his figment. But this the benumbing (numb?) backbone of Dagon; this the dotage of error drinks in[1 Samuel 5]. Of what worth, I ask, is this sentence, so frivolous and so rude and resting, as it does, on no testimonies of sacred Scripture; We ought not to keep the Passover with the Jews? What has it to do with the question? Are the reprobate Jews to ...