Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 12:17

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 7, footnote 2 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril. (HTML)

To those who are to be Enlightened, delivered extempore at Jerusalem, as an Introductory Lecture to those who had come forward for Baptism. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 476 (In-Text, Margin)

4. Thou art receiving not a perishable but a spiritual shield. Henceforth thou art planted in the invisible[Revelation 12:17] Paradise. Thou receivest a new name, which thou hadst not before. Heretofore thou wast a Catechumen, but now thou wilt be called a Believer. Thou art transplanted henceforth among the spiritual olive-trees, being grafted from the wild into the good olive-tree, from sins into righteousness, from pollutions into purity. Thou art made partaker of the Holy Vine. Well then, if thou abide in the Vine, thou growest as a fruitful branch; but if thou ...