Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Samuel 6:18
There is 1 footnote for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 242, footnote 1 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
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Chap. I.—On Eating. (HTML)
... accessories attend the mode of life. For not one man under heaven, if brought up from his youth in such practices, will ever turn out a wise man, with however admirable a natural genius he may be endowed.” For Plato was not unacquainted with David, who “placed the sacred ark in his city in the midst of the tabernacle;” and bidding all his subjects rejoice “before the Lord, divided to the whole host of Israel, man and woman, to each a loaf of bread, and baked bread, and a cake from the frying-pan.”[2 Samuel 6:17-19]