Deuteronomy 4:24 (WEB)
For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
Fathers and councils · 16
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.13Book IV
“The divine word says that our God is “a consuming fire,” and that “He draws rivers of fire before Him;” nay, that He even entereth in as “a refiner’s fire, and as a fuller’s herb,” to purify His own people.” — editor's note: Cf. Deut. iv. 24; ix. 3.
Read the whole comment “…according to the declarations of our own Scriptures, God is a body, because in the writings of Moses they find it said, that “our God is a consuming fire;” and in the Gospel according to John, that “God is a Spirit, and they who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment- Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“For in sacred language God is called a fire, as when Scripture says,” Our God is a consuming fire.”” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
“Wherefore also Moses declared that God was indeed a consuming fire (igneum) to the people that transgressed the law, and threatened that God would bring upon them a day of fire; but to those who had the fear of God he said,…” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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John Damascene
“The second name of God is ὁ Θεός, derived from θέειν, to run, because He courses through all things, or from αἴθειν, to burn: For God is a fire consuming all evil: or from θεᾶσθαι, because He is all-seeing: for nothing can escape Him, and over all He keepeth watch.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“But to the holy Apostles He came down in the form of fire: for He is God, and God is a consuming fire.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And he, whose mouth was as an open sepulchre, began first with blasphemy against the Maker of all things, saying, The God of the Old Testament is the author of evils, as He says of Himself, I am a consuming fire.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…of the sea) they wander over the unknown paths of the abyss, nor their own extravagance, as the “beasts of the field,” that Thou, Lord, “a consuming fire,” mayest burn up their lifeless cares and renew them immortally.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“It is written, “The Lord thy God is a jealous God.”” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For a servant of the Lord should be diligent and careful, yea, moreover, burning like a flame, so that when, by an ardent spirit, he has destroyed all carnal sin, he may be able to draw near to God who, according to the expression of the saints, is called ‘a consuming fire.’” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24; ix. 3; and Heb. xii. 29.
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Tertullian
“For God is “jealous,” and is One who is not contemptuously derided—derided, namely, by such as flatter His goodness—and who, albeit “patient,” yet threatens, through Isaiah, an end of (His) patience.” — editor's note: Comp. Ex. xx. 5; xxxiv. 14; Deut. iv. 24; v. 9; vi. 15; Josh. xxiv. 19; Nahum i. 2.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Do not wonder when thou readest that God the Father said: “I am a consuming fire.”” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“…the property of fire and light, and the Godhead is wont to be pointed out or seen in the appearance of fire: “For our God is a consuming Fire,” as Moses said.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…run) or from Αἴθειν (to blaze), from continual motion, and because He consumes evil conditions of things (from which fact He is also called A Consuming Fire), would still be one of the Relative Names, and not an Absolute one; as again is the case with Lord, which also is called a name of God.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
Read the whole comment“For our God is a consuming Fire, and a Fire burning up the ungodly; though you may again pick a quarrel over these words, being brought into difficulty by the Consubstantiality.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Now Simon, both foolishly and knavishly paraphrasing the law of Moses, makes his statements (in the manner following): For when Moses asserts that “God is a burning and consuming fire,” taking what is said by Moses not in its correct sense, he affirms that fire is the originating principle of the universe.” — editor's note: Deut. iv. 24.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.9.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.
Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies VI.4.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.9.
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