Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Chronicles 7
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 87, footnote 4 (Image)
Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents
Pseudo-Clementine Literature. (HTML)
The Recognitions of Clement. (HTML)
Book I. (HTML)
The Holy Place. (HTML)
“In addition to these things, he also appointed a place in which alone it should be lawful to them to sacrifice to God.[2 Chronicles 7:12] And all this was arranged with this view, that when the fitting time should come, and they should learn by means of the Prophet that God desires mercy and not sacrifice, they might see Him who should teach them that the place chosen of God, in which it was suitable that victims should be offered to God, is his Wisdom; and that on the other hand they might hear that this place, which seemed chosen for a time, often harassed as it had ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 218, footnote 4 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults. (HTML)
Book III. Of the Canonical System of the Daily Prayers and Psalms. (HTML)
Chapter XI. Of the points in which the service held on Sunday differs from what is customary on other days. (HTML)
But we ought to know this, too, that on Sunday only one office is celebrated before dinner, at which, out of regard for the actual service[2 Chronicles 7:9] and the Lord’s communion, they use a more solemn and a longer service of Psalms and prayers and lessons, and so consider that Tierce and Sext are included in it. And hence it results that, owing to the addition of the lessons, there is no diminution of the amount of their devotions, and yet some difference is made, and an indulgence over other times seems to be granted to the brethren out of reverence for the ...