Exodus 4:7 (WEB)
He said, “Put your hand inside your cloak again.” He put his hand inside his cloak again, and when he took it out of his cloak, behold, it had turned again as his other flesh.
Fathers and councils · 3
Ambrose of Milan
“A second time he put it in and drew it out, and it was again like the appearance of human flesh.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 6, 7.
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Tertullian
“When Moses puts his hand into his bosom, and then draws it out 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…” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 6, 7.
Read the whole comment“The hand of Moses is changed, and it becomes like a dead one, bloodless, colourless, and stiff with cold; but on the recovery of heat, and on the restoration of its natural colour, it is again the same flesh and blood.” — editor's note: Ex. iv. 6, 7.
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Cross-references · 22
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Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 55.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 55.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 55.
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 55.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 55.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy III.15.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 55.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 55.
Cited together in On the Resurrection of the Flesh Chapter 28.