Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 150:4

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 672, footnote 24 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

Of the Imposition of Hands. Types of the Deluge and the Dove. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8601 (In-Text, Margin)

In the next place the hand is laid on us, invoking and inviting the Holy Spirit through benediction. Shall it be granted possible for human ingenuity to summon a spirit into water, and, by the application of hands from above, to animate their union into one body with another spirit of so clear sound; and shall it not be possible for God, in the case of His own organ,[Psalms 150:4] to produce, by means of “holy hands,” a sublime spiritual modulation? But this, as well as the former, is derived from the old sacramental rite in which Jacob blessed his grandsons, born of Joseph, Ephrem and Manasses; with his hands laid on them and interchanged, and indeed so transversely slanted one over the ...