Samaria
place · 4 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
mountain of Samaria
in the texts
Adversus Marcionem
City named in the Isaiah prophecy concerning the child who would take its spoils.
next, to take the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria against the king of the Assyrians.
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.
But Samaria had revolted from Israel, having that schism out of the nine tribes, which, torn away through the prophet Ahijah, Jeroboam had placed at Samaria.
Stromata
Capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, site from which the ten tribes were taken captive.
And from the time when the ten tribes became captive out of Samaria, down to Ptolemy the Fourth, five hundred and seventy-three years, nine months;
Adversus Judaeos
City figured allegorically as idolatry, whose 'spoils' are the converted Magi.
For the East had Magi too as something like kings, and Damascus was once reckoned to Arabia, before it was transcribed into Syrophoenicia by the division of the Syrias, whose power Christ then received in receiving its insignia — namely gold and perfumes — but the spoils of Samaria are the very Magi, who, when they had recognized him and honoured him with gifts and adored him on bended knee as Lor …
De Anima
Region identifying Simon Magus and the place where he claimed to be the Father.
and, having first recovered and carried her back, on his shoulders or his thighs I know not, thereafter looked to the salvation of men, as by way of vengeance for those to be freed from those angelic powers — for whose deceiving he too, equally configured, and falsely pretending to be a man among men, played in Judaea the Son, but in Samaria the Father.