Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 15:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 257, footnote 11 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3579 (In-Text, Margin)

... their lives. My voice sticks in my throat; and, as I dictate, sobs choke my utterance. The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken; nay more famine was beforehand with the sword and but few citizens were left to be made captives. In their frenzy the starving people had recourse to hideous food; and tore each other limb from limb that they might have flesh to eat. Even the mother did not spare the babe at her breast. In the night was Moab taken, in the night did her wall fall down.[Isaiah 15:1] “O God, the heathen have come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have made Jerusalem an orchard. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the ...