Leviticus 26:12 (WEB)
I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.
Catechism · 1
“This gift, this state, this act, like eternal life itself, will assuredly be common to all.” — Catechism footnote: St. Augustine, De civ. Dei, 22, 30: PL 41, 801-802; cf. Lev 26:12; cf. 1 Cor 15:28.
Fathers and councils · 8
Irenaeus of Lyons
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.26Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“If, on the other hand, he receives God, who says, “I will dwell with them, and walk in them, and I will be their God,” such an one is not empty, but full.” — editor's note: Lev. xxvi. 12.
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John Damascene
“These are made treasuries and pure habitations of God: For I will dwell in them, said God, and walk in them, and I will be their God.” — editor's note: Levit. xxvi. 12; 2 Cor. vi. 16.
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Ambrose of Milan
“But He does not dwell in the temple as a priest, nor as a minister, but as God, since the Lord Jesus Himself said: “I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and will be their God, and they shall be My people.”” — editor's note: Lev. xxvi. 12.
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Aphrahat
“And again He said through the Prophet:—I will dwell in them and walk in them.” — editor's note: Levit. xxvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“For He said through the prophet, I will dwell in them, and walk in them.” — editor's note: Lev. xxvi. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
“What else was meant by His word through the prophet, “I will be your God, and ye shall be my people,” than, I shall be their satisfaction, I shall be all that men honorably desire,—life, and health, and nourishment, and plenty, and glory, and honor, and peace, and all good things?” — editor's note: Lev. xxvi. 12.
Read the whole comment“But ask what is the reward, and thou wilt find it there said: “That thine enemies may be driven forth before thy face, and that you may receive the land which God promised to your fathers.”” — editor's note: Lev. xxvi. 1–13.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…idea of marriage, and rescues, from heretical adulteration, the precept of Moses (Ex. xix. 15); introducing a lucid parallel, with the Apostolic command, “Come out from among them, and be separate,” etc. He turns the tables on his foul antagonists; showing them that this very law obliges the Catholic Christian…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. vi. 17. Compare Ex. xxix. 45, and Lev. xxvi. 12.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in Catechism §2550 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit III.12.
Cited together in Catechism §2550.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cited together in The City of God XXII.30.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
