Where the Fathers quote Leviticus 20
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Maximus the ConfessorPG 91:696expounds v.7“και εσεσθε αγιοι οτι αγιος εγω Κυριος ο Θεος υμων·”On the meaning of the concluding liturgical hymns: «One is holy, one is Lord»
1Lev 20:1
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 56:809A…ent: Hear, O Israel, the Lord thy God, one God is (Deut. 6:4): trade it to the poor Gentiles, who do not have one God. You have, "Thou shalt not make an idol" (Levit. 20:1): trade this to the poor Gentiles, and…
2Lev 20:2
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:693…i have often noted that which is written in leviticus a man of the children of israel or of the strangers who are joined to us be men that is to say humans for although all…
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 14:905…the children of israel and you shall say to them any man of the children of israel or of the strangers that dwell among you whoever eats any blood i will set my soul against that…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:695…matter in leviticus also for they run as follows and the man of the children of israel or of the proselytes who are attached to you whoever eats any blood i will set my face against…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:951…the children of israel and you shall say to them any man of the children of israel or of the proselytes who are attached to them in israel who might offer his gifts according to all…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:903…chapter xi h vers the lord spoke to moses and aaron saying say to the children of israel these are the animals which you may eat from all the living things of the earth everything that…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1039…if anyone gives of his offspring to the idol moloch he shall be put to death the people of the land shall stone him and i will set my face against him and cut him off…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1041…but the whole synagogue and the people guilty for he says the people of the land shall stone him and not content with these he added and i will set my face against him and cut…
Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:763…who is joined to a saint is sanctified himself c h the people of the land shall stone him etc xx h it has great utility that the people should punish the guilty with their own…
Paschal Chronicle c. 630PG 92:205…moses i am who i am and he said thus you shall say to the children of israel 'the one who is' has sent me to you and god said again to moses thus you shall…
3Lev 20:3
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:693…the lord will answer him in that in which he is detained and i will set my face against that man consider how in the beginning he spoke leniently and then how afterward because he had…
Eustathius of Antioch c. 270 - c. 337PG 18:637…whoring after them i will even set my face against that soul and will cut him off from among his people if then god having from the beginning established the law with rigorous decrees sent forth…
Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 31:667…a stranger the same reproacheth god and that soul shall be cut off from among his people because he hath despised the word of the lord and hath broken his commandments that soul shall utterly be…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:915…by the voice of ezekiel he spoke concerning a certain person saying and i will set my face against that man and i will place him in a desert and for destruction and i will take…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1041…his seed to moloch and shall not wish to kill him i will set my face against that man and his kindred and will cut off both him and all who have consented with him to…
Anastasius of SinaiPG 89:527…him in my name i the lord will answer him in himself and i will set my face against that man and i will make him a sign and a proverb and i will remove him…
4Lev 20:4
Basil the Great c. 329–379PG 30:1085…confirmed by the LXX, when they translate the Hebrew expression which the prophet used here when he said, "the land is filled with abominations," in Leviticus XX, 4: εἴδωλα, idols: Οὐκ ἐπακολουθήσετε εἰδώλοις—"You shall…
John Chrysostom c. 349–407PG 47:63…upon which i shall bring the sword that is i shall permit and if the people of the land take one man and set him a watchman and the watchman sees the sword coming and the…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1041…a polluted my holy name but if the people of the land by neglecting this and as if holding in low regard my authority shall dismiss the man who gave…
5Lev 20:5
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:693…will answer him in that in which he is detained and i will set my face against that man consider how in the beginning he spoke leniently and then how afterward because he had not been…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 71:915…voice of ezekiel he spoke concerning a certain person saying and i will set my face against that man and i will place him in a desert and for destruction and i will take him away…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1041…his seed to moloch and shall not wish to kill him i will set my face against that man and his kindred and will cut off both him and all who have consented with him to…
Anastasius of SinaiPG 89:527…my name i the lord will answer him in himself and i will set my face against that man and i will make him a sign and a proverb and i will remove him from the…
6Lev 20:6
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 15:865C…. Theod., one who sees. From the Basilian. Another, one having knowledge. The rest, one having knowledge. The same Hebrew word Aquila translates differently, Levit. xx, 6. Ibid. From the Coislinian. CHAPTER…
Eustathius of Antioch c. 270 - c. 337PG 18:637…proclaims concerning such an act of daring and the soul he says that turneth after such as have familiar spirits or after wizards to go a whoring after them i will even set my face against…
Cyril of Alexandria d. 444PG 68:429…or enchanters so as to play the harlot after them i will set my face against that soul and will destroy it from among its people and you shall be holy for i the lord your…
Theodore Balsamon d. c. 1205PG 137:721…or diviners so as to play the harlot after them i will set my face against that soul and will destroy it from among its people…
OrigenesPG 16:211…c. These readings are exhibited in Coislin. 2. () V. 11. "Another, and his knowers." In the notes to the Roman edition and in Drusius. Thus Aquila translates, Lev. xx, 6; Symm. Deut. xvi, 11; A. Th. Prov. vii,…
OrigenesPG 16:227…. Coislin 2, which also brings forward the following reading. V. 6. α., kai epoiese theleten. It seems to be the version of Aquila, who translates ob thus, Levit. XX, 6, and elsewhere. Ibid. kai gnostas. G…
8Lev 20:8
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 12:531…to god after this it is written keep he says my commandments and do them i am the lord and to these he adds a man if any man curses his father or mother let him…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1039…the land of egypt keep all my commandments and all my judgments and do them i am the lord this sanction is also similar to the preceding ones when after the profit of the letter we…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1043…be holy for i am the lord your god keep my precepts and do them i am the lord who sanctifies you it is no trifling sin to turn aside to wizards or as the lxx…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1077…morning of the next day i am the lord guard my commandments and do them i am the lord do not pollute my holy name that i may be sanctified in the midst of the children…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1079…which is in it now i am the lord keep my commands and do them i am the lord who here indeed establish the law but there judge who have given c intelligible talents to my…
9Lev 20:9
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1043…mother let him die the death he that curseth his father and mother his blood shall be upon him or as the lxx render it he is liable so that this name refers to god himself…
Theodoret of Cyrrhus c. 386–458PG 81:1141…because having heard the voice of the trumpet he did not observe his blood shall be upon him he calls the sword war and the watchman the scout the discourse teaches us that god himself provides…
Procopius of Gaza c. 465–528PG 87:927…to anyone a disobedient son xxi and elsewhere it says whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death item whoever curses his mother or father shall be punished with death indeed he…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:293A…m. Exod. xxi, 15. — “He that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be put to death. He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall be put to death.” Levit. xx, 9. — “Every one that curseth his father o…
Cyril of JerusalemPG 33:621…contempt then there is a place for that judgment which says he that curseth his father or his mother let him die the death the first duty of christian piety is to honor our progenitors to…
10Lev 20:10
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:247C…, not everything is immediately tranquil. For as long as a man lives, this war endures. On fornication, and adultery, and unnatural lust. Tit. XI. — Levit. xx, 10 seqq. — “The man who has committed adul…
Antonius Melissa fl. 11th centuryPG 136:813…for they that sow in tears shall reap in joy levit xxvii the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife the adulterer and the adulteress shall…
12Lev 20:12
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1045…put to death let their blood be upon them if any one lie with his daughter in law both shall die because they have committed a wicked deed let their blood be upon them these things…
14Lev 20:14
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 13:1233…their own houses and the rest b the text is as follows if a man take a wife and live with her and it shall be if she find not favor in his eyes because he…
John of Damascus c. 675–749PG 96:249…of his father let both die the death if a man takes a wife and her mother it is wickedness they shall burn him and them in fire a spurious person shall not enter into the…
15Lev 20:15
Origen c. 185–c. 253PG 11:605…child and children shall rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death and ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake but he that endureth to the end the…
17Lev 20:17
Clement of Alexandria c. 150 – c. 215PG 8:855…destroy the city and the sanctuary with the leader that is coming and they shall be cut off in a flood and unto the end of the war a shortened by devastations and he shall confirm…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 19:523…people of the coming leader shall destroy the temple and the sanctuary and they shall be cut off in a flood of war dan ix and he continues saying and upon the temple shall be the…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:619…destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that shall come and they shall be cut off in a flood and unto the end of the war which is cut short…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:1183…he will destroy the city and the sanctuary with the coming leader and they shall be cut off in a flood and until the end of the war there will be determined desolations now in what…
Eusebius of Caesarea c. 260–339PG 22:1189…what follows for those who had been previously corrupted the word says and they shall be cut off in the flood and they shall be cut off down to the end of a war shortened by…
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1047…shall behold the ignominy of her brother it is an abominable thing they shall be cut off in the sight of the people because they have uncovered their nakedness one to another and they shall bear…
George Kedrenos fl. 11th c.PG 121:361…people of the coming leader shall destroy the temple and the sanctuary and they shall be cut off in a deluge of war and he continues and upon the temple the abomination of desolation and until…
Basil of SeleuciaPG 85:401…shall destroy the city and the sanctuary together with the coming prince and they shall be cut off in a flood and even to the end of a war desolations are determined by order and he…
Basil of SeleuciaPG 85:411…he means the savior regarding those who crucified him he says thus and they shall be cut off in a deluge and until the end of the war shortened by a sentence of desolation he termed…
19Lev 20:19
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1047…wisdom of this world is foolishness with god vers thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister nor of thy father's sister he that doeth this hath uncovered the ignominy of his own flesh…
20Lev 20:20
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1049…mother s brother and shall uncover the shame of his kinship both shall bear their sin they shall die without children whoever shall take the wife of his brother has done an illicit thing he has…
22Lev 20:22
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1039…led you out of the land of egypt keep all my commandments and all my judgments and do them the septuagint however state all my law and all my commandments i am the lord they duplicate…
24Lev 20:24
Hesychius of Jerusalem d. after 450PG 93:1049…which i will give to you as an inheritance a land flowing with milk and honey i am the lord your god who have separated you from the other peoples not only to the jews were…