Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Hebrews 10:4
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 363, footnote 1 (Image)
Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen
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CCEL Footnote 4043 (In-Text, Margin)
XI. Let us then be baptized that we may win the victory; let us partake of the cleansing waters, more purifying than hyssop, purer than the legal blood, more sacred than the ashes of the heifer sprinkling the unclean,[Hebrews 10:4] and providing a temporary cleansing of the body, but not a complete taking away of sin; for if once purged, why should they need further purification? Let us be baptized today, that we suffer not violence to-morrow; and let us not put off the blessing as if it were an injury, nor wait till we get more wicked that more may be forgiven us; and let us not become sellers and traffickers of ...