Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Chronicles 21:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 61, footnote 10 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 952 (In-Text, Margin)

... God. When of old the Philistines had been overcome, when their devilish audacity had been smitten, when their champion had fallen on his face to the earth, it was from this city that there went forth a procession of jubilant souls, a harmonious choir to sing our David’s victory over tens of thousands. Here, too, it was that the angel grasped his sword, and while he laid waste the whole of the ungodly city, marked out the temple of the Lord in the threshing floor of Ornan, king of the Jebusites.[1 Chronicles 21:18] Thus early was it made plain that Christ’s church would grow up, not in Israel, but among the Gentiles. Turn back to Genesis, and you will find that this was the city over which Melchizedek held sway, that king of Salem who, as a type of Christ, ...