Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 11:19

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1, page 486, footnote 11 (Image)

Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus

Irenæus (HTML)

Against Heresies: Book IV (HTML)

Chapter XVIII.—Concerning sacrifices and oblations, and those who truly offer them. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4058 (In-Text, Margin)

... benefit, lest we be unfruitful; so did the Word give to the people that very precept as to the making of oblations, although He stood in no need of them, that they might learn to serve God: thus is it, therefore, also His will that we, too, should offer a gift at the altar, frequently and without intermission. The altar, then, is in heaven (for towards that place are our prayers and oblations directed); the temple likewise [is there], as John says in the Apocalypse, “And the temple of God was opened:”[Revelation 11:19] the tabernacle also: “For, behold,” He says, “the tabernacle of God, in which He will dwell with men.”