Judges 13:22 (WEB)
Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
Fathers and councils · 3
Tertullian
“The apostle confirms this statement; for, speaking of God, he says, “Whom no man hath seen, nor can see;” because the man indeed would die who should see Him.” — editor's note: Ex. xxxiii. 20; Deut. v. 26; Judg. xiii. 22.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…later days; the one being unable to endure the sight even of one in whom was a representation of God; and saying, “We are undone, O wife, we have seen God;” speaking as though even a vision of God could not be grasped by human beings, let alone the Nature of God; and the other unable to endure the Presence of…” — editor's note: Judg. xiii. 22.
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Aphrahat
“The Moabites ruled over them in the days of Ehud; the Ammonites in the days of Jephthah; the Philistines in the days of Samson, and also in the days of Eli and of Samuel the Prophet; the Edomites in the days of Ahab; the Assyrians in the days of Hezekiah.” — editor's note: Judges xiii. 1–24.
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