Samaritans
group · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the Samaritans · Samaritan · a city of the Samaritans · that little village of the Samaritans · the Samaritan · the cities of the Samaritans
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
Inhabitants of Samaria, a group historically split from Israel, one of whom (the healed leper) gives thanks to God.
" Therefore he who through Amos too had said "Woe" to those who trust in the mountain of Samaria, deigning now of set purpose to restore even her, bids them show themselves to the priests — surely who were nowhere but where the temple too was — subjecting the Samaritan to the Jew, since salvation is of the Jews, although both were Israelites and Samaritans.
But the "spoils of Samaria" are the Magi themselves, who, when they had recognized him and honoured him with gifts and adored him on bended knee as god and king, under the testimony of the star their guide and leader, were made the spoils of Samaria, that is, of idolatry, believing, namely, in Christ.
On the contrary, the disciples destining the same animadversion against Christ upon that little village of the Samaritans.
Stromata
People referenced alongside the Gentiles in the Lord's instruction about where not to go.
"Do not go off into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter into a city of the Samaritans," the Lord says, turning us away from the contrary manner of life, since "the destruction of lawless men is evil.
De Fuga in Persecutione
A people whose cities were initially off-limits to the apostles' preaching, later entered once the mission expanded.
" And thenceforth, themselves also turned, as their predecessors had instituted, they both went into the way of the nations and entered into the cities of the Samaritans—so that, namely, "into all the earth their sound went out, and into the bounds of the world their voices.