Exodus 17:11 (WEB)
When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Catechism · 1
“Moses already intercedes for them during the battle with the Amalekites and prays to obtain healing for Miriam.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Ex 17:8-12; Num 12:13-14.
Fathers and councils · 12
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…foal of an ass, and was a stone rejected by the builders, and was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and by the stretching forth of His hands destroyed Amalek; while He gathered from the ends of the earth into His Father’s fold the children who were scattered abroad, and remembered His own dead ones who had formerly…” — editor's note: Ex. xvii. 11.
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Tertullian
“…was to enter the lists one day singly against the devil—the figure of the cross was also necessary, (that figure) through which Jesus was to win the victory?” — editor's note: See Ex. xvii. 8–16; and comp. Col. ii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“In Exodus, was not that position of Moses, battling against Amalek by prayers, maintained as it was perseveringly even till “sunset,” a “late Station?”” — editor's note: See Ex. xvii. 8–12.
Read the whole comment“…Himself; and on that account, as being hereditary culprits from their privity to their fathers’ crimes, they do not dare even to raise them unto the Lord, for fear some Isaiah should cry out, for fear Christ should utterly shudder.” — editor's note: I do not know Tertullian’s authority for this statement. Certainly Solomon did raise his hands (1 Kings viii. 54), and David apparently his (see Ps. cxliii. 6;…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this, and let it be a memorial in a book, and tell it in the ears of Jesus; because in destroying I will destroy the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”” — editor's note: Ex. xvii. 11–14.
Read the whole comment“And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this, that it may be a memorial in a book, and tell it unto the ears of Jesus, that I may utterly destroy the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”” — editor's note: Ex. xvii. 9–14.
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Jerome
“Again when Moses fought against Amalek, it was not with the sword but with prayer that he prevailed.” — editor's note: Ex. xvii. 11.
Read the whole comment“For know, my beloved son, that Amalek has been destroyed root and branch and that the trophy of the cross has been set up on the hill of Rephidim.” — editor's note: Cf. Exod. xvii. 8–14.
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Ambrose of Milan
“So much was he at ease, that others held up his hands; yet he was no less active than others, for he with his hands at ease was overcoming the enemy, whom they that were in the battle could not conquer.” — editor's note: Ex. xvii. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…forbid by fighting the passage to the land of promise, he be overcome by the cross of the Lord, which is prefigured by the holding out of the hands of Moses.” — editor's note: Ex. xvii. 8–16
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“What Moses is to conquer him by stretching out his hands upon the mount, in order that the cross, thus typified and prefigured, may prevail?” — editor's note: Exod. xvii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…Amalek shall be conquered, not with arms alone, but with the hostile hand of the righteous forming both prayers and the invincible trophy of the Cross; the River shall be cut off; the sun shall stand still; and the moon be restrained; walls shall be overthrown even without engines; swarms of hornets shall go…” — editor's note: Ib. xvii. 10, 11.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
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Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
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Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.22.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.22.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.22.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews II.22.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 91.