Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Chronicles 13
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 123, footnote 5 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Apologetic. (HTML)
Ad Nationes. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
The Charge of Worshipping the Sun Met by a Retort. (HTML)
... even admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have selected its day, in preference to the preceding day as the most suitable in the week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious rites to those of strangers. For the Jewish feasts on the Sabbath and “the Purification,” and Jewish also are the ceremonies of the lamps,[2 Chronicles 13:11] and the fasts of unleavened bread, and the “littoral prayers,” all which institutions and practices are of course foreign from your gods. Wherefore, that I may return from this digression, you who reproach us with the sun and Sunday should consider ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 12, page 140, footnote 1 (Image)
Chrysostom: Homilies on First and Second Corinthians
Homilies on First Corinthians. (HTML)
Homily XXIV (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 119 (In-Text, Margin)
... were according to the Spirit. And what he says is of this nature: “even from persons of the grosser sort ye may be instructed that they who eat the sacrifices, have communion with the altar.” Dost thou see how he intimates that they who seemed to be perfect have not perfect knowledge, if they know not even this, that the result of these sacrifices to many oftentimes is a certain communion and friendship with devils, the practice drawing them on by degrees? For if among men the fellowship of salt[2 Chronicles 13:5] and the table becomes an occasion and token of friendship, it is possible that this may happen also in the case of devils.