Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Maccabees 12:40

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 701, footnote 3 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas. (HTML)

Argument.  Perpetua, When Besieged by Her Father, Comforts Him. When Led with Others to the Tribunal, She Avows Herself a Christian, and is Condemned with the Rest to the Wild Beasts. She Prays for Her Brother Dinocrates, Who Was Dead. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8986 (In-Text, Margin)

3. “After a few days, whilst we were all praying, on a sudden, in the middle of our prayer, there came to me a word, and I named Dinocrates; and I was amazed that that name had never come into my mind until then, and I was grieved as I remembered his misfortune. And I felt myself immediately to be worthy, and to be called on to ask on his behalf.[2 Maccabees 12:40-45] And for him I began earnestly to make supplication, and to cry with groaning to the Lord. Without delay, on that very night, this was shown to me in a vision. I saw Dinocrates going out from a gloomy place, where also there were several others, and he was parched and very thirsty, with a filthy countenance and pallid ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 338, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin. (HTML)

Book II (HTML)

Victor ‘Decides’ That Oblations Should Be Offered Up for Those Who Die Unbaptized. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2416 (In-Text, Margin)

... to writing, and chastise himself with the most wholesome discipline of repentance. “Now it is,” says he; “on this example of the Maccabees who fell in battle that I ground the necessity of doing this. When they offered stealthily some interdicted sacrifices, and after they had fallen in the battle, we find,” says he, “that this remedial measure was at once resorted to by the priests,—sacrifices were offered up to liberate their souls, which had been bound by the guilt of their forbidden conduct.”[2 Maccabees 12:39-45] But he says all this, as if (according to his reading of the story) those atoning sacrifices were offered up for uncircumcised persons, as he has decided that these sacrifices of ours must be offered up for unbaptized persons. For circumcision was ...