Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 1:20

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 90, footnote 3 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Modesty. (HTML)

The Same Subject Continued. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 856 (In-Text, Margin)

... nuptials and impious voluptuousness and parricidal lust,—(lust) which he had refused to compare even with (the lusts of) the nations, for fear it should be set down to the account of custom; (lust) on which he would sit in judgment though absent, for fear the culprit should “gain the time;” (lust) which he had condemned after calling to his aid even “the Lord’s power,” for fear the sentence should seem human. Therefore he has trifled both with his own “spirit,” and with “the angel of the Church,”[Revelation 1:20] and with “the power of the Lord,” if he rescinded what by their counsel he had formally pronounced.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 681, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm CL (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 6008 (In-Text, Margin)

... to make fifty. And this number fifty is of so great meaning, that it was after the completion of that number of days from the Lord’s Resurrection, that, on the fiftieth day exactly, the Holy Spirit came upon those who were gathered together in Christ. And this Holy Spirit is in Scripture especially spoken of by the number seven, whether in Isaiah or in the Apocalypse, where the seven Spirits of God are most directly mentioned, on account of the sevenfold operation of one and the self-same Spirit.[Revelation 1:20] And this sevenfold operation is mentioned in Isaiah. …Hence also the Holy Spirit is spoken of under the number seven. But this period of fifty the Lord divided into forty and ten: for on the fortieth day after His Resurrection He ascended into ...