NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Hebrews 11:37

1 Clement

Let us be imitators also of those who in goat-skins and sheep-skins[71]

A Letter from Origen to Africanus

For the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in speaking of the prophets, and what they suffered, says, "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were slain with the sword"[13]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

It was therefore for their firm adherence to truth, and their faithfulness in the reproof of the wicked, that "they were stoned; they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; they wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth, of whom the world was not worthy: "[6]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

Indeed, the prophets themselves, who for the purity of their lives received the Divine Spirit, "wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented: they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth."[23]

Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV

His temple, He was unwilling to send him with heavenly power and glory, that the people who had been ungrateful towards God might be led into the greatest error, and suffer punishment for their crimes, since they had not received their Lord and God, as the prophets had before foretold that it would thus happen. For Isaiah whom the Jews most cruelly slew, cutting him asunder with a saw,[97]

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

-one with stones, another with the sword; one they sawed asunder,[141]

Revelation of Paul

While he was yet speaking, there came other three, and saluted me, saying: Welcome, Paul, beloved of God, the boast of the churches, and model of angels. And I asked: Who are you? And the first said: I am Isaiah, whom Manasseh sawed with a wood saw.[31]

1 Clement

Let us be imitators also of those who in goat-skins and sheep-skins[82]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

let him believe what is written thus in the Epistle to the Hebrews, "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted; "[119]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

And they, too, were dishonoured in their own country among the Jews who went about "in sheep-skins, in goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted," and so on;[121]

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