Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Isaiah 20:3
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 614, footnote 4 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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... world was not worthy:” for they looked always to God and to His blessings, which, being invisible, and not to be perceived by the senses, are eternal. We have the history of the life of each of the prophets; but it will be enough at present to direct attention to the life of Moses, whose prophecies are contained in the law; to that of Jeremiah, as it is given in the book which bears his name; to that of Isaiah, who with unexampled austerity walked naked and barefooted for the space of three years.[Isaiah 20:3] Read and consider the severe life of those children, Daniel and his companions, how they abstained from flesh, and lived on water and pulse. Or if you will go back to more remote times, think of the life of Noah, who prophesied; and of Isaac, who ...