Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
2 Maccabees 10
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 384, footnote 1 (Image)
Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents
Apocrypha of the New Testament. (HTML)
The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary. (HTML)
Chapter 2. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1691 (In-Text, Margin)
And it came to pass that the festival of the dedication[2 Maccabees 10:1-8] was at hand; wherefore also Joachim went up to Jerusalem with some men of his own tribe. Now at that time Issachar was high priest there. And when he saw Joachim with his offering among his other fellow-citizens, he despised him, and spurned his gifts, asking why he, who had no offspring, presumed to stand among those who had; saying that his gifts could not by any means be acceptable to God, since He had deemed him unworthy of off-spring: for the Scripture said, ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 9, page 12b, footnote 8 (Image)
Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. (HTML)
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith. (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
Concerning what is affirmed about God. (HTML)
The second name of God is ὁ Θεός, derived from θέειν, to run, because He courses through all things, or from αἴθειν, to burn: For God is a fire consuming all evil: or from θεᾶσθαι, because He is all-seeing[2 Maccabees 10:5]: for nothing can escape Him, and over all He keepeth watch. For He saw all things before they were, holding them timelessly in His thoughts; and each one conformably to His voluntary and timeless thought, which constitutes predetermination and image and pattern, comes into existence at the predetermined time.