Exodus from Egypt
event · 5 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
brought us out of the land of Egypt · snatched from the hardness of the Egyptian bondage · the Exodus · the Jews' deliverance from Egypt · the crossing of the sea · the departure · the departure from Egypt · the departure of the sons of Israel from Egypt · the exodus
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1 expressionThe Exodus from Egypt2 mentions
Adversus Judaeos (Latin) · Adversus Marcionem (Latin)
These are the gods who brought us out of the land of Egypt.
in the texts
Stromata
The departure of the Hebrews from Egypt under Moses, including the despoiling of the Egyptians and the destruction of the pursuing army at the sea.
Moses, then, being a Chaldean by descent, is born in Egypt, his forefathers having migrated from Babylon to Egypt on account of a long-lasting famine.
for the Egyptians pursued on horses and chariots, but perished quickly when the sea broke and flooded over them, horses and chariots together, so that not even a remnant of them was left.
Moses, having led out the people, suspecting that the Egyptians would pursue, left the short and direct road and turned toward the desert, and used the night for the most part of the journey.
Adversus Judaeos
God's deliverance of Israel from Egypt, later misattributed to the golden calf and forgotten by the people.
These are the gods who brought us out of the land of Egypt.
For Israel, which had been known to God, and which had been exalted by him in Egypt, and was carried across the Red Sea, and which was fed in the wilderness with manna for forty years — brought to the likeness of eternity, neither defiled with human sufferings nor fed on the foods of this world, but fed on manna, the bread of angels, and bound to God by enough of his benefits — forgot the Lord and …
Adversus Marcionem
Israel's departure from Egypt with plundered goods, used as a precedent contrasted with the apostles' poverty.
The Creator brings out the departure of the sons of Israel from Egypt, stuffed and packed with those spoils of golden and silver vessels and garments besides the burdens of their dough;
Apologeticum
The departure of the Jews from Egypt, recounted by Tacitus as origin of the ass-worship legend.
For in the fifth book of his Histories, beginning the Jewish war from the origin of the nation, after arguing what he pleased both about that origin and about the name and religion of the nation, he relates that the Jews, when delivered out of Egypt — or, as he thought, driven out — in the vast and waterless wilds of Arabia, perishing with thirst, used as guides to a spring some wild asses which, …
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The deliverance of Israel from slavery in Egypt, the backdrop to their subsequent wilderness murmuring.
For the first people too had carved anew the crime of the first man, being caught more prone to the belly than to God, when, after they had been snatched from the hardness of the Egyptian bondage by the strong hand of God and the lofty arm, and their Lord had been seen, and they were destined for a land flowing with milk and honey, at once, scandalized at the prospect of the unprovisioned wilderne …