Patriarchs
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patriarchs · the many patriarchs
in the texts
Letters
Patriarchs listed among heavenly honorees.
transfer your whole care upon the Lord, that you may be found where are the tens of thousands of angels, the assemblies of the firstborn, the thrones of the apostles, the seats of honour of the prophets, the sceptres of the patriarchs, the crowns of the martyrs, the praises of the righteous.
Stromata
Biblical patriarchs presented as noble exemplars.
the many patriarchs who set things right before him, the very many prophets, the angels beyond all our reckoning by number, and the Lord over all, who taught and showed that it is possible to acquire that supreme life—for this reason he does not love all the ready things of the world that are called noble, lest he remain on the ground, but rather the things hoped for—or rather the things already k …