Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Kings 19:28

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 9, footnote 14 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Chromatius, Jovinus, and Eusebius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 107 (In-Text, Margin)

... girdle across the Euphrates (for all the devil’s strength is in the loins), and has hidden it there in a hole of the rock. Then, afterwards finding it rent, he has sung: “O Lord, thou hast possessed my reins. Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.” But as for me, Nebuchadnezzar has brought me in chains to Babylon, to the babel that is of a distracted mind. There he has laid upon me the yoke of captivity; there inserting in my nostrils a ring of iron,[2 Kings 19:28] he has commanded me to sing one of the songs of Zion. To whom I have said, “The Lord looseth the prisoners; the Lord openeth the eyes of the blind.” To complete my contrast in a single sentence, whilst I pray for mercy Bonosus looks for a crown.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 353, footnote 7 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage. (HTML)

Aphrahat:  Select Demonstrations. (HTML)

Of Wars. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 741 (In-Text, Margin)

... Zion, will despise him, and the daughter of Jerusalem will shake her head and say:— Whom hast thou reviled and blasphemed, and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice?  Thou hast lifted up thine eyes towards heaven against the Holy One of Israel, and by the hands of thy messengers thou hast reviled the Lord.  Now see that the hook has been forced into thy nostrils, and the bridle into thy lips, and thou hast turned back with thine heart crushed, who camest with thine heart uplifted.[2 Kings 19:28] And his slaying was by the hands of his loved ones; and in the house of his confidence, there was he over thrown, and fell before his god. And truly it was right, my beloved, that his body should thus become a sacrifice and offering before that god ...