Exodus 13:21 (WEB)
The LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“…time, when in the desert God was going over before His people, before the sons of Israel, by day in the pillar of cloud, by night in the brightness of fire; and determineth that thus it is that “the heavens dropped from the face of God,” for manna He rained upon His people: that the same thing also is that which…” — editor's note: Exod. xiii. 21.
Read the whole comment“The dove and the fire, indeed, seem to me more like that flame which appeared to Moses in the bush, or that pillar which the people followed in the wilderness, or the thunders and lightnings which came when the Law was given in the mount.” — editor's note: Ex. xiii. 21, 22
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And it was Light that was in the pillar of fire that led Israel and tamed the wilderness.” — editor's note: Ex. xiii. 21.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Or, because God who had been with them in the cloud by day, and in the pillar of fire by night, [marg. note: Ex 13:21] never after shewed Himself to them in like manner.” — the author cites it
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also in Exodus: “But God went before them by day indeed in a pillar of cloud, to show them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.”” — editor's note: Ex. xiii. 21.
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Cross-references · 23
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Exodus 13:21 and Numbers 12:5 share the same wording (9 words).
Exodus 13:21 and Numbers 14:14 share the same wording (10 words).
Exodus 13:21 and Nehemiah 9:12 share the same wording (14 words).
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Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.6.