2 Kings 18:4 (WEB)
He removed the high places, broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“2 Kings xviii. 3, 4, 7.” — the author cites it
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Second Council of Nicaea (787)
- Second Council of Nicaea (787), Editor's introduction and excursus 3: Excursus on the Present Teaching of the Latin and Greek Churches on the SubjectEditor's excursus
“Why was he praised in the Old Testament who broke down the brazen serpent (II Kgs. xviii. 4) which long before Moses had set up on high?” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“But if any feigns ignorance of the fact that that effigy of the serpent of bronze, after the manner of one uphung, denoted the shape of the Lord’s cross, which was to free us from serpents—that is, from the devil’s angels—while, through itself, it hanged up the devil slain; or whatever other exposition of that…” — editor's note: [The argument amounts to this, that symbols were not idols: yet even so, God only could ordain symbols that were innocent. The Nehushtan of King Hezekiah…
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in Editor's introduction and excursus 3: Excursus on the Present Teaching of the Latin and Greek Churches on the Subject.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in Editor's introduction and excursus 3: Excursus on the Present Teaching of the Latin and Greek Churches on the Subject.