Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Jeremiah 38:7

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 356, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 4322 (In-Text, Margin)

... themselves such cannot be placed with those who have. He who is able, he says, to receive it, let him receive it. It is a mark of great faith and of great virtue, to be the pure temple of God, to offer oneself a whole burnt-offering, and, according to the same apostle, to be holy both in body and in spirit. These are the eunuchs, who thinking themselves dry trees because of their impotence, hear by the mouth of Isaiah that they have a place prepared in heaven for sons and daughters. Their type is[Jeremiah 38:7] Ebed-melech the eunuch in Jeremiah, and the eunuch of Queen Candace in the Acts of the Apostles, who on account of the strength of his faith gained the name of a man. These are they to whom Clement, who was the successor of the Apostle Peter, ...