Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Nahum 1:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 252, footnote 17 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3147 (In-Text, Margin)

... voice of Abel speaking through his silent blood. Fearful His feet, which overtake evildoing. Fearful also His filling of the universe, so that it is impossible anywhere to escape the action of God, not even by flying up to heaven, or entering Hades, or by escaping to the far East, or concealing ourselves in the depths and ends of the sea. Nahum the Elkoshite was afraid before me, when he proclaimed the burden of Nineveh, God is jealous, and the Lord takes vengeance in wrath upon His adversaries,[Nahum 1:1-2] and uses such abundance of severity that no room is left for further vengeance upon the wicked. For whenever I hear Isaiah threaten the people of Sodom and rulers of Gomorrah, and say Why will ye be smitten any more, adding sin to sin? I am almost ...