Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Zephaniah 3:1

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 659, footnote 2 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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CCEL Footnote 5364 (In-Text, Margin)

... them not, I will liken him to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: the tempests came and beat upon that house, and it fell; and great was its destruction.” And lest we should seem to have made the comparison inconsiderately of that dove bearing the image of the lapsed, the prophet rebukes the city as a dove, that is, the character of the lapsed, saying, “The dove hearkens not to the voice; that is, the illustrious and redeemed city receives not teaching, and trusted not in the Lord.”[Zephaniah 3:1-3]