Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 John 1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 234, footnote 11 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3276 (In-Text, Margin)

... churches which, according to the apocalypse of John, ought rather to be called synagogues of the devil than congregations of Christ. In the Book of Songs we read as follows:—“there are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her.” It is to this choice one that the same John addresses an epistle in these words, “the elder unto the elect lady and her children.”[2 John 1] So too in the case of the ark which the apostle Peter interprets as a type of the church, Noah brings in for his three sons one wife apiece and not two. Likewise of the unclean animals pairs only are taken, male and female, to shew that digamy has ...

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