Where the Fathers quote 4 Kingdoms (2 Kings) 6
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154Kgs 6:15
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 95:1435…m heaven, and devoured the holocaust, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; and the fire licked up even the water that was in the trench.› IV Kings VI, 15-18. — ‹The servant of Eliseus rose early, and behold, an army…
164Kgs 6:16
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:407…fender is far stronger. If, suspecting the multitude, you fear, Elisha the prophet says to you: «Fear not, for there are more with us than with them» (4 Kings 6:16). There indeed is the multitude of the barbarians, but here…
174Kgs 6:17
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:71…by the sight he had just seen, was held by fear. What then did the prophet do? "Open, Lord," he said, "the eyes of this young man, and let him see" (4 Kings 6:17); and suddenly the whole mountain on which the prophet dwel…
254Kgs 6:25
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 58:897C…untur. Chrysostomo, scriptori in libris citandis incuriosissimo, hærebat in memoria alia fames, quæ urbi Samariae ab Adado Syrorum rege obsessae incessit. Vide IV Reg. vi, 25 sqq.; Joseph. Antiq. ix, 4, 4. Ibid.,…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:95…ITLE III. — On famine, and on those who do not sell grain in time of need; and that many unlawful things are done by those suffering from famine. IV Kings vi, 25-30. — “There was a famine in Samaria, so that an ass’s head wa…
264Kgs 6:26
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 62:443…his woman said to me, 'Let us eat your son today, and we will eat mine tomorrow'; and we roasted him, and we ate him; but she has not yet given hers" (4 Kings 6:26-29). What is more grievous than this calamity? Again, elsewher…
314Kgs 6:31
Joannes ChrysostomusPG 51:347…th wrath that he straightway exclaimed and said: "May God do to me and add more, if the head of Elisha the son of Saphat shall stand on him this day" (4 Kings 6:31). Do you see the king's wrath? See the woman's wisdom: for…