Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Zechariah 1:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 3, page 256, footnote 11 (Image)

Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises

Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustin (HTML)

The Enchiridion. (HTML)

The Bodies Assumed by Angels Raise a Very Difficult, and Not Very Useful, Subject of Discussion. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1198 (In-Text, Margin)

... who will tell with what sort of bodies it was that the angels appeared to men, making themselves not only visible, but tangible; and again, how it is that, not through material bodies, but by spiritual power, they present visions not to the bodily eyes, but to the spiritual eyes of the mind, or speak something not into the ear from without, but from within the soul of the man, they themselves being stationed there too, as it is written in the prophet, “And the angel that spake in me said unto me”[Zechariah 1:9] (he does not say, “that spake to me,” but “that spake in me”); or appear to men in sleep, and make communications through dreams, as we read in the Gospel, “Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying”? For these ...