Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 15:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 200, footnote 24 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2825 (In-Text, Margin)

... the redemption which the sinner finds for his old sins in the waters of baptism. On the next day soon after sunrise she stood upon the brow of Capharbarucha, that is, “the house of blessing,” the point to which Abraham pursued the Lord when he made intercession with Him. And here, as she looked down upon the wide solitude and upon the country once belonging to Sodom and Gomorrah, to Admah and Zeboim, she beheld the balsam vines of Engedi and Zoar. By Zoar I mean that “heifer of three years old”[Isaiah 15:5] which was formerly called Bela and in Syriac is rendered Zoar that is ‘little.’ She called to mind the cave in which Lot found refuge, and with tears in her eyes warned the virgins her companions to beware of “wine wherein is excess;” for it was to ...