Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Revelation 17:14

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 677, footnote 4 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

Of the Second Baptism--With Blood. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8702 (In-Text, Margin)

We have indeed, likewise, a second font, (itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, “I have to be baptized with a baptism,” when He had been baptized already. For He had come “by means of water and blood,” just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to make us, in like manner, called by water, chosen[Revelation 17:14] by blood. These two baptisms He sent out from the wound in His pierced side, in order that they who believed in His blood might be bathed with the water; they who had been bathed in the water might likewise drink the blood. This is the baptism which both stands in lieu of ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 3, page 180, footnote 11 (Image)

Theodoret, Jerome and Gennadius, Rufinus and Jerome

The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret. (HTML)

Dialogues. The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” of the Blessed Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus. (HTML)

The Immutable. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1161 (In-Text, Margin)

“‘Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, and took the form of a servant.’ What poorer, in respect of God, than the form of a servant? What more lowly, in respect of the King of all, than approach to fellowship in our poor nature? The King of Kings and Lord of Lords[Revelation 17:14] voluntarily dons the form of servitude.”