Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Maccabees 6:2
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 377, footnote 2 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X. (HTML)
Conference VIII. The Second Conference of Abbot Serenus. On Principalities. (HTML)
Chapter IV. Of the double sense in which Holy Scripture may be taken. (HTML)
... rejection accorded to it, and the second view need not interfere with the former, if neither of them is found to be opposed to the faith: as in this case: where Elias came in the person of John, and is again to be the precursor of the Lord’s Advent: and in the matter of the “Abomination of desolation” which “stood in the holy place,” by means of that idol of Jupiter which, as we read, was placed in the temple in Jerusalem, and which is again to stand in the Church through the coming of Antichrist,[2 Maccabees 6:2] and all those things which follow in the gospel, which we take as having been fulfilled before the captivity of Jerusalem and still to be fulfilled at the end of this world. In which matters neither view is opposed to the other, nor does the first ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 359, footnote 4 (Image)
Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat
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Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations. (HTML)
Of Wars. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 791 (In-Text, Margin)
20. For Daniel said:— I was considering the ten horns that were upon the head of the beast. For the ten horns were ten kings who arose at that time until Antiochus. And he said:— A little horn arose from between those ten and three fell before it. For when Antiochus arose in the kingdom, he humbled three kings, and he exalted himself against the saints of the Most High and against Jerusalem. And he defiled the sanctuary.[2 Maccabees 6:2-4] And he caused the sacrifice and the offerings to cease for a week and half a week, namely, for ten and a-half years. And he brought in fornicators into the house of the Lord, and he caused the observances of the Law to cease. And he slew righteous men and gave them to the birds ...