Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Esdras 1

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 336, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 1186 (In-Text, Margin)

... stirreth up, saying, “Say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received, that thou fulfil it.” (Col. iv. 17.) And that to the Galatians seems to me to be before that to the Romans. But if they have a different order in the Bibles, that is nothing wonderful, since the twelve Prophets, though not exceeding one another in order of time, but standing at great intervals from one another, are in the arrangement of the Bible placed in succession. Thus Haggai and Zachariah and the Messenger[2 Esdras 1:40] prophesied after Ezekiel and Daniel, and long after Jonah and Zephaniah and all the rest. Yet they are nevertheless joined with all those from whom they stand so far off in time.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 60, footnote 13 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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Paula and Eustochium to Marcella. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 938 (In-Text, Margin)

... own.[2 Esdras 1:30] And will you now let us fly about at random with no mother near us? Will you leave us to dread the swoop of the hawk and the shadow of each passing bird of prey? Separated from you, we do what we can: we utter our mournful plaint, and more by sobs ...