NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

1 Corinthians 10:4

Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians

which leads to the Father, the Rock,[79]

Dialogue of Justin "For Isaiah did not send you to a bath, there to wash away murder and other sins, which not even all the water of the sea were sufficient to purge; but, as might have been expected, this was that saving bath of the olden time which followed[26]

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus

And as He was born of Mary in the last times, so did He also proceed from God as the First-begotten of every creature; and as He hungered, so did He satisfy [others]; and as He thirsted, so did He of old cause the Jews to drink, for the "Rock was Christ"[107]

Tertullian An Answer to the Jews

(that is, with Christ's precepts, for Christ is in many ways and figures predicted as a rock[167]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book III

and also alleges that the rock which followed (the Israelites) and supplied them with drink was Christ;[63]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV

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Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

For behold Marcion, in his blindness, stumbled at the rock whereof our fathers drank in the wilderness. For since "that rock was Christ,"[328]

Tertullian Of Patience

as his guides; "when he pours down for an idol the contributions of his gold: for the so necessary delays of Moses, while he met with God, he had borne with impatience. After the edible rain of the manna, after the watery following[59]

Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith

And again, speaking also of the children of Israel as baptized in the cloud and in the sea, he says: "And they all drank of the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ."[90]

Recognitions of Clement I

In the nineteenth generation the descendants of him who had been cursed after the flood, going beyond their proper bounds which they had obtained by lot in the western regions, drove into the eastern lands those who had obtained the middle portion of the world, and pursued them as far as Persia, while themselves violently took possession of the country from which they expelled them. In the twentieth generation a son for the first time died before his father,[20]

Recognitions of Clement I

But when Moses had gone up to the mount, and was staying there forty days, the people, although they had seen Egypt struck with the ten plagues, and the sea parted and passed over by them on foot, manna also given to them from heaven for bread, and drink supplied to them out of the rock that followed[25]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

is every disciple of Christ of whom those drank who drank of the spiritual rock which followed them,[70]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

For all bear the surname of "rock" who are the imitators of Christ, that is, of the spiritual rock which followed those who are being saved,[78]

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1 Corinthians 10:4

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