Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Samuel 16:10

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 343, footnote 8 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Against Heresies: Book I (HTML)

Chapter XVIII.—Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2886 (In-Text, Margin)

3. Further, they declare that the arrangement made with respect to the ark in the Deluge, by means of which eight persons were saved, most clearly indicates the Ogdoad which brings salvation. David also shows forth the same, as holding the eighth place in point of age among his brethren.[1 Samuel 16:10] Moreover, that circumcision which took place on the eighth day, represented the circumcision of the Ogdoad above. In a word, whatever they find in the Scriptures capable of being referred to the number eight, they declare to fulfil the mystery of the Ogdoad. With respect, again, to the Decad, they maintain that it is indicated by those ten ...