Acts 7:19 (WEB)
The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory of Nyssa
“Bronze melts in it; mud hardens; wax vanishes: while all other animals are destroyed by it, the salamander is preserved alive; tow burns, asbestos is washed by the flames as if by water; so much for his ‘sameness of works from one and the same energy.’” — editor's note: is preserved alive; ξωογονεῖται. This is the LXX., not the classical use, of the word. Cf. Exod. i. 17; Judges viii. 19, &c. It is reproduced in the speech of…
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Basil the Great
“He quickens together with God, who produces and preserves all things alive, and together with the Son, who gives life.” — editor's note: In 1 Tim. vi. 13, St. Paul writes τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ ζωοποιοῦντος πάντα. In the text St. Basil writes τὰ πάντα ζωογονοῦντος. The latter word is properly…
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.26.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.26.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.26.