Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Amos 7:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 54, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Marcella. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 862 (In-Text, Margin)

... order of nature. While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evil-doing. Isaiah goes naked without blushing as a type of captivity to come. Jeremiah is sent from Jerusalem to the Euphrates (a river in Mesopotamia), and leaves his girdle to be marred in the Chaldæan camp, among the Assyrians hostile to his people. Ezekiel is told to eat bread made of mingled seeds and sprinkled with the dung of men and cattle. He has to see his wife die without shedding a tear. Amos is driven from Samaria.[Amos 7:12-13] Why is he driven from it? Surely in this case as in the others, because he was a spiritual surgeon, who cut away the parts diseased by sin and urged men to repentance. The apostle Paul says: “Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 256, footnote 6 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Letters. (HTML)

To Amphilochius, the Canons. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2834 (In-Text, Margin)

LVI. The intentional homicide, who has afterwards repented, will be excommunicated from the sacrament[Amos 7:13] for twenty years. The twenty years will be appointed for him as follows: for four he ought to weep, standing outside the door of the house of prayer, beseeching the faithful as they enter in to offer prayer in his behalf, and confessing his own sin. After four years he will be admitted among the hearers, and during five years will go out with them. During seven years he will go out with the kneelers, praying. During four years he will only ...