Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 35

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 126, footnote 12 (Image)

Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine

The Church History of Eusebius. (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

The Martyrdom of James, who was called the Brother of the Lord. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 510 (In-Text, Margin)

17. And while they were thus stoning him one of the priests of the sons of Rechab, the son of the Rechabites, who are mentioned by Jeremiah the prophet,[Jeremiah 35] cried out, saying, ‘Cease, what do ye? The just one prayeth for you.’

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 121, footnote 4 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Paulinus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1778 (In-Text, Margin)

... let us monks take as the patterns which we are to follow the lives of Paul, of Antony, of Julian, of Hilarion, of the Macarii. And to go back to the authority of scripture, we have our masters in Elijah and Elisha, and our leaders in the sons of the prophets; who lived in fields and solitary places and made themselves tents by the waters of Jordan. The sons of Rechab too are of the number who drank neither wine nor strong drink and who abode in tents; men whom God’s voice praises through Jeremiah,[Jeremiah 35] and to whom a promise is made that there shall never be wanting a man of their stock to stand before God. This is probably what is meant by the title of the seventy-first psalm: “of the sons of Jonadab and of those who were first led into ...