Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Kings 19:21

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 153, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2236 (In-Text, Margin)

... of one’s expenses—these are habits not easily laid aside. Yet to escape the Egyptian woman Joseph had to leave his garment with her. And the young man who followed Jesus having a linen cloth cast about him, when he was assailed by the servants had to throw away his earthly covering and to flee naked. Elijah also when he was carried up in a chariot of fire to heaven left his mantle of sheepskin on earth. Elisha used for sacrifice the oxen and the yokes which hitherto he had employed in his work.[1 Kings 19:21] We read in Ecclesiasticus: “he that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.” As long as we are occupied with the things of the world, as long as our soul is fettered with possessions and revenues, we cannot think freely of God. “For what ...