Patriarchs and prophets
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Adversus Marcionem
The Old Testament patriarchs and prophets with whom the pre-incarnate Son is said to have conversed.
that He from the beginning held intercourse, He held converse with the patriarchs and prophets — the Son of the Creator, His Word, whom by putting Him forth from Himself He made His Son, and thenceforth set Him over His every disposition and will, diminishing Him a little beneath the angels, as it is written in David;
Adversus Praxean
The collective line of patriarchs and prophets who received theophanies of the Son.
For the patriarchs are reported to have seen God, as Abraham and Jacob, and the prophets, as Isaiah, as Ezekiel, and yet they did not die.
For he it is who always came down even to converse with men, from Adam right down to the patriarchs and prophets, in vision, in dream, in mirror, in riddle, foreordaining his own course from the beginning, the very course he was to follow through to the end.
Common Sense
Biblical early ancestors whose peaceful pre-monarchical lives are contrasted favorably with the strife of Jewish royalty
for the quiet and rural lives of the first Patriarchs hath a happy something in them, which vanishes away when we come to the history of Jewish royalty.