Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Kings 5:14
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 574, footnote 2 (Image)
Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus
Irenæus (HTML)
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus (HTML)
XXXIV. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 4855 (In-Text, Margin)
“And dipped himself,” says [the Scripture], “seven times in Jordan.”[2 Kings 5:14] It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [it served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions; being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: “Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 156b, footnote 1 (Image)
Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great. (HTML)
Register of the Epistles of St. Gregory the Great. (HTML)
Book IV. (HTML)
To Theodorus, Physician. (HTML)
I commend to your Glory my son, your patient, the lord Narses. I know indeed that you hold him as in all respects commended to you; but I beg you to do what you are doing, that, in asking for what I see is being done, I may by my asking have a share in your reward. Furthermore, I have received the blessing[2 Kings 5:14] of your Excellency with the charity wherewith it was sent to me. And I have presumed to send you, in acknowledgment of your love, a duck with two small ducklings, that, as often as your eye is led to look at it, the memory also of me may be recalled to you among the occupations and tumults of business.