Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 38:23

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 2, page 176, footnote 6 (Image)

Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425

The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus. (HTML)

Book VII (HTML)

Calamities of the Barbarians who had been the Usurper John's Allies. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1034 (In-Text, Margin)

... and consumed many of the survivors. This filled the barbarians with the utmost terror; not so much because they had dared to take up arms against a nation of such valor as the Romans possessed, as that they perceived them to be assisted by a mighty God. On this occasion, Proclus the bishop preached a sermon in the church in which he applied a prophecy out of Ezekiel to the deliverance effected by God in the late emergency, and was in consequence much admired. This is the language of the prophecy:[Ezekiel 38:22-23]