Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Kings 2:19

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 201, footnote 14 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2848 (In-Text, Margin)

... and of which he set up the gates in his youngest son Segub. She looked upon the camp of Gilgal and the hill of the foreskins suggestive of the mystery of the second circumcision: and she gazed at the twelve stones brought thither out of the bed of Jordan to be symbols of those twelve foundations on which are written the names of the twelve apostles. She saw also that fountain of the Law most bitter and barren which the true Elisha healed by his wisdom changing it into a well sweet and fertilising.[2 Kings 2:19-22] Scarcely had the night passed away when burning with eagerness she hastened to the Jordan, stood by the brink of the river, and as the sun rose recalled to mind the rising of the sun of righteousness; how the priest’s feet stood firm in the middle ...