Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 60:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 164, footnote 14 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2410 (In-Text, Margin)

... laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on the true life.” We have learned how a camel can pass through a needle’s eye, how an animal with a hump on its back, when it has laid down its packs, can take to itself the wings of a dove and rest in the branches of the tree which has grown from a grain of mustard seed. In Isaiah we read of camels, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah and Sheba, which carry gold and incense to the city of the Lord.[Isaiah 60:6] On like typical camels the Ishmaelitish merchantmen bring down to the Egyptians perfume and incense and balm (of the kind that grows in Gilead good for the healing of wounds); and so fortunate are they that in the purchase and sale of Joseph they ...