Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

John 4:33

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 221, footnote 1 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (HTML)

The Instructor (HTML)

Book I (HTML)
Chapter VI.—The Name Children Does Not Imply Instruction in Elementary Principles. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1127 (In-Text, Margin)

... thing may somehow be both meat and drink, according to the different aspects in which it is considered, just as cheese is the solidification of milk or milk solidified; for I am not concerned here to make a nice selection of an expression, only to say that one substance supplies both articles of food. Besides, for children at the breast, milk alone suffices; it serves both for meat and drink. “I,” says the Lord, “have meat to eat that ye know not of. My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me.”[John 4:32-34] You see another kind of food which, similarly with milk, represents figuratively the will of God. Besides, also, the completion of His own passion He called catachrestically “a cup,” when He alone had to drink and drain it. Thus to Christ the ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 112, footnote 8 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Fasting. (HTML)

Of the Apostle's Language Concerning Food. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1105 (In-Text, Margin)

How unworthy, also, is the way in which you interpret to the favour of your own lust the fact that the Lord “ate and drank” promiscuously! But I think that He must have likewise “fasted” inasmuch as He has pronounced, not “the full,” but “the hungry and thirsty, blessed:” (He) who was wont to profess “food” to be, not that which His disciples had supposed, but “the thorough doing of the Father’s work;”[John 4:31-34] teaching “to labour for the meat which is permanent unto life eternal;” in our ordinary prayer likewise commanding us to request “bread,” not the wealth of Attalus therewithal. Thus, too, Isaiah has not denied that God “hath chosen” a “fast;” but has particularized in detail the ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 76, footnote 40 (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 XXI. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1519 (In-Text, Margin)

... speak with a woman; but not one of them said unto him, What seekest thou? or, [32] What speakest thou with her? And the woman left her waterpot, and went to the [33] city, and said to the people, Come, and see a man who told me all that ever I did: [34] perhaps then he is the Messiah. And people went out from the city, and came to [35] him. And in the mean while his disciples besought him, and said unto him, Our [36, 37] master, eat. And he said unto them, I have food to eat that ye know not.[John 4:33] And the disciples said amongst themselves, Can any one have brought him aught to eat? [38] Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish [39] [Arabic, p. 84] his work. Said ye not that after four months ...

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