Exodus 16:29 (WEB)
Behold, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
Fathers and councils · 4
Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“Respecting the celebrated observance of the Sabbath also he thus speaks: “Ye shall sit, everyone in your dwellings; no one shall move from his place on the Sabbath-day.”” — editor's note: Cf. Ex. xvi. 29.
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“…considers (the famous injunction relating to) the Sabbath, “Ye shall sit each one in your dwellings: let no one go out from his place on the seventh day,” will deem it impossible to be literally observed: for no living being is able to sit throughout a whole day, and remain without moving from a sitting position.” — editor's note: Ex. xvi. 29.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…Israel whom their own God led from Egypt through the Red Sea, wherein He overwhelmed their pursuing foes; whom He led out into the wilderness, fed with manna, never took His rod from correcting them, never deprived them of the blessings of His mercy; ought they to desert their own God, when the heathen have come unto…” — editor's note: Exod. xvi. 13–35.
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John Chrysostom
“And how? for it was not lawful so much as to go out.” — editor's note: Exod. xvi. 29.
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