Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Psalms 130:8
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 465, footnote 8 (Image)
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Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. (HTML)
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The Exchange for One's Life. (HTML)
... and Syene for thee; from what time thou hast become honourable before Me thou wast glorified.” For the exchange, for example, of the first-born of Israel was the first-born of the Egyptians, and the exchange for Israel was the Egyptians who died in the last plagues that came upon Egypt, and in the drowning which took place after the plagues. But, from these things, let him who is able inquire whether the exchange of the true Israel given by God, “who redeems Israel from all his transgressions,”[Psalms 130:8] is the true Ethiopia, and, so to speak, spiritual Egypt, and Syene of Egypt; and to inquire with more boldness, perhaps Syene is the exchange for Jerusalem, and Egypt for Judæa, and Ethiopia for those who fear, who are different from Israel, and the ...