Deuteronomy 21:23 (WEB)
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
Fathers and councils · 11
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And again: “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth upon a tree.”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13; Deut. xxi. 23.
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Tertullian
“But when we assert that Christ was crucified, we do not malign Him with a curse; we only re-affirm the curse pronounced by the law: nor indeed did the apostle utter blasphemy when he said the same thing as we.” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23.
Read the whole comment“…it is not credible that God should have exposed His own Son to that kind of death; because Himself said, “Cursed is every one who shall have hung on a tree.”” — editor's note: Comp. Deut. xxi. 23 with Gal. iii. 13, with Prof. Lightfoot on the latter passage.
Read the whole comment“The Lord Himself was “cursed” in the eye of the law; and yet is He the only Blessed One.” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23; Gal. iii. 13. Tertullian’s quotations here are somewhat loose. He renders words which are distinct in the Greek by the same in his Latin.
Read the whole comment““Cursed,” says He, “is every one who hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Compare Deut. xxi. 23 with Gal. iii. 13.
Read the whole comment“But yet it by no means follows, because the Creator said of old, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,” that Christ belonged to another god, and on that account was accursed even then in the law.” — editor's note: The LXX. version of Deut. xxi. 23 is quoted by St. Paul in Gal. iii. 13.
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Justin Martyr
““For the statement in the law, ‘Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree,’ confirms our hope which depends on the crucified Christ, not because He who has been crucified is cursed by God, but because God foretold that which would be…” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“…and again, ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.’”” — editor's note: Gal. iii. 13 and Deut. xxi. 23
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Ambrose of Milan
“A curse, then, He was made not in respect of His Godhead, but of His flesh; for it is written: “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23; Gal. iii. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For this death of the Cross was a great abomination in their eyes, as they did not perceive that it was spoken in prophecy, “Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For this is exactly what is written: “Cursed is he that hangeth on a tree.”” — editor's note: Deut. xxi. 23.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 96.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 8.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 29.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24 and 2 other places.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion III.17.
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