Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Maccabees 2:39

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 342, footnote 4 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

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On the Creation of the World (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2204 (In-Text, Margin)

... that circumcision should not pass over the eighth day, which day very frequently happens on the Sabbath, as we read written in the Gospel. Moses, foreseeing the hardness of that people, on the Sabbath raised up his hands, therefore, and thus figuratively fastened himself to a cross. And in the battle they were sought for by the foreigners on the Sabbath-day, that they might be taken captive, and, as if by the very strictness of the law, might be fashioned to the avoidance of its teaching.[1 Maccabees 2:31-41]