Deuteronomy 29:5 (WEB)
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
“…and who in the desert, fed forty years with manna, was wrought to the semblance of eternity, and not contaminated with human passions, or fed on this world’s meats, but fed on “angel’s loaves”—the manna—and sufficiently bound to God by His benefits—forgot his Lord and God, saying to Aaron: “Make us gods, to go…” — editor's note: Or, perhaps, “not affected, as a body, with human sufferings;” in allusion to such passages as Deut. viii. 4; xxix. 5; Neh. ix. 21.
Read the whole comment“That the raiment and shoes of the children of Israel remained unworn and fresh for the space of forty years; that in their very persons the exact point of convenience and propriety checked the rank growth of their nails and hair, so that any excess herein might not be…” — editor's note: Deut. xxix. 5.
Read the whole comment“For it was He under whose very protection the people wore not out a shoe, even in the wilderness for the space of so many years.” — editor's note: Deut. xxix. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Nay, but the times over which she presides are not all alike, because they are times.” — editor's note: The law of the development of revelation implied in the above passage is one to which Augustin frequently resorts in confutation of objections such as those to…
Read the whole comment“For if to the garments of the Israelites God granted their proper state without any wearing away during forty years, how much more would He grant unto the bodies of such as obeyed His command a…” — editor's note: Deut. xxix. 5
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Ambrose of Milan
“…assail them, without need of toil, in the enjoyment of rest?—so that, for the space of forty years, their raiment grew not old, nor were their shoes worn, a figure to the faithful of the Resurrection that was to come, showing that neither the glory of great deeds, nor the beauty of the power wherewith He hath…” — editor's note: Ex. xvi. 12 ff.; Deut. viii. 3, 4; xxix. 5; Ps. lxxviii. 24, 25; cv. 40; S. John vi. 31; 1 Cor. x. 3.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
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Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 58.