Exodus 4:3 (WEB)
He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
Fathers and councils · 7
Augustine of Hippo
“Cast it on to the ground,” etc. What doth it intimate?” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“Yet, when He changed the same matter out of the rod of Moses into the flesh of a serpent, immediately and quickly, that change, which was unusual, although of a thing which was changeable, was a miracle.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 3
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John Chrysostom
“Thus Moses also first is in fear of the serpent, and not merely in fear, but even with much distress: and then he sees that strange thing come to pass.” — editor's note: Exod. iv. 3, 4.
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Ambrose of Milan
“What else did the rod changed into a serpent signify, than that at the will of God living things can be produced from those that are without life?” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 3.
Read the whole comment“Moses was holding a rod, he cast it down and it became a serpent.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 3, 4.
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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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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 · 12
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.5.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.5.
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 Holy Trinity III.5.
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 Holy Trinity III.5.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.5.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity III.5.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.