Exodus 4:2 (WEB)
The LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.”
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
“Cast it on to the ground,” etc. What doth it intimate?” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 1–3.
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John Chrysostom
“For to Moses first He saith, “What is that in thine hand?”in order that when he saw it become a serpent, He should not forget that it was a rod before, but being reminded of his own saying, might be amazed at what was done.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 2.
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Tertullian
“…again dead, and again puts his hand into his bosom, and plucks it out living, does not this apply as a presage to all mankind?—inasmuch as those three signs denoted the threefold power of God: when it shall, first, in the appointed order, subdue to man the old serpent, the devil, however formidable; then, secondly,…” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 2–9.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“In this way then shalt thou discourse of God; even wert thou a Moses and a god to Pharaoh; even wert thou caught up like Paul to the Third Heaven, and hadst heard unspeakable words; even wert thou raised above them both, and exalted to Angelic or Archangelic place and dignity.” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 2.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“This serpent, he says, is the power that attended Moses, the rod that was turned into a serpent.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 2–4, 17; vii. 9–13.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.