Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Matthew 24:32

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 561, footnote 3 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Anti-Marcion. (HTML)

On the Resurrection of the Flesh. (HTML)

The Scriptures Forbid Our Supposing Either that the Resurrection is Already Past, or that It Takes Place Immediately at Death. Our Hopes and Prayers Point to the Last Great Day as the Period of Its Accomplishment. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 7418 (In-Text, Margin)

... nigh,” not of its being present already; and of “those things beginning to come to pass,” not of their having happened: because when they have come to pass, then our redemption shall be at hand, which is said to be approaching up to that time, raising and exciting our minds to what is then the proximate harvest of our hope. He immediately annexes a parable of this in “the trees which are tenderly sprouting into a flower-stalk, and then developing the flower, which is the precursor of the fruit.”[Matthew 24:32] “So likewise ye,” (He adds), “when ye shall see all these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of heaven is nigh at hand.” “Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things, and to ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 108, footnote 36 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

The Diatessaron of Tatian. (HTML)

The Diatessaron. (HTML)

Section XLII. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2913 (In-Text, Margin)

[25][Matthew 24:32] Learn the example of the fig tree: when it letteth down its branches, and putteth [26] forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is come; so ye also, when ye see these things begun to be, know ye that the kingdom of God hath arrived at the [27] door. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, until all these [28] things shall be. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my sayings shall not pass away.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 375, footnote 1 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

Selections from the Hymns and Homilies of Ephraim the Syrian and from the Demonstrations of Aphrahat the Persian Sage. (HTML)

Aphrahat:  Select Demonstrations. (HTML)

Of Monks. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 955 (In-Text, Margin)

19. In writing this I have reminded myself, and also thee, my beloved; therefore love virginity, the heavenly portion, the fellowship of the Watchers of heaven. For there is nothing comparable with it. And in those that are thus, in them Christ dwells. The time of summer is at hand, and the fig-tree has budded and its leaves have come out[Matthew 24:32] —the signs that our Redeemer gave have begun to be fulfilled. For he said:— People shall rise against people and kingdom against kingdom.  And there shall be famines and pestilences and terrors from heaven. And lo! all these things are being accomplished in our days.