Old Testament in the library
The harvest has not read Old Testament’s own works yet. What it has read is the library that quotes Old Testament: 33 works, 512 citations in all.
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512 citations · from 33 works33 works in the library quote Old Testament — 512 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.
through Psalms 99 citations · Book of Isaiah 72 citations · Genesis 59 citations · Book of Jeremiah 39 citations · Proverbs 34 citations · Exodus 24 citations · Deuteronomy 24 citations · Book of Daniel 23 citations · Book of Job 17 citations · Ezekiel 17 citations · Leviticus 12 citations · Zechariah 12 citations · Hosea 11 citations · Book of Amos 11 citations · Numbers 10 citations · Book of Joel 9 citations · Jonah 9 citations · Book of Malachi 7 citations · Habakkuk 5 citations · book of Joshua 4 citations · Micah 4 citations · book of Judges 2 citations · Book of Esther 2 citations · Book of Nahum 2 citations · Lamentations 2 citations · Book of Ruth 1 citation · Haggai 1 citation
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The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Old Testament is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 7 neutral 1 refuted 1 extended 128 citations · 85 passages
book 1 6 passages anchored here · book 2 14 passages anchored here · book 3 13 passages anchored here · book 4 35 passages anchored here · book 5 17 passages anchored hereThree distinct Genesis quotations are explicitly used to ground the argument about flesh and soul.
It is enough that the very ones whom he saves, found to be of an imperfect salvation, show his goodness to be imperfect — saved, namely, only as to the soul, lost as to the flesh, which with him does not rise again.
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 5 neutral 2 extended 2 endorsed 120 citations · 192 passages
book 1 27 passages anchored here · book 2 51 passages anchored here · book 3 13 passages anchored here · book 4 31 passages anchored here · book 5 22 passages anchored here · book 6 33 passages anchored here · book 7 15 passages anchored hereGenesis is quoted twice, first as the prayer of a faithful believer, then as God's own declaration of covenant to Moses/the patriarch.
and if one should advance, to be reckoned among the sons, and, when love covers a multitude of sins, having grown in love, to await the perfecting of the blessed hope, the man enrolled in the elect adoption that is called the friend of God, already singing the prayer and saying:
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 neutral 5 extended 1 endorsed 57 citations · 59 passages
letter 5 · letter 8 7 passages anchored here · letter 22 2 passages anchored here · letter 24 · letter 38 · letter 42 3 passages anchored here · letter 45 · letter 46 4 passages anchored hereand 25 more chapters
letter 51 · letter 91 · letter 130 · letter 150 2 passages anchored here · letter 188 2 passages anchored here · letter 189 2 passages anchored here · letter 199 · letter 203 · letter 207 · letter 210 · letter 212 · letter 220 · letter 223 3 passages anchored here · letter 236 · letter 241 · letter 242 · letter 243 · letter 244 2 passages anchored here · letter 260 8 passages anchored here · letter 262 · letter 263 · letter 265 2 passages anchored here · letter 269 · letter 300 · letter 301The sentence that mortals return to earth alludes to Genesis and is invoked for consolation.
Remember, then, the sentence of our Creator, by which all of us who have sprung from the earth return again to earth;
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Adversus Judaeos Tertullian 1 extended 24 citations · 13 passages
Genesis narratives (Abraham, Rebecca, Adam, Noah, Melchizedek, Cain and Abel) are invoked repeatedly as authoritative source material for the argument.
and indeed that from the beginning the earthly sacrifices were shown beforehand in Cain, the elder son, that is, of Israel, and the diverse sacrifices of the younger son Abel, that is, of our people, were demonstrated.
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 5 neutral 1 refuted 19 citations · 17 passages
book i, chapter i. 3 passages anchored here · ch. 9 3 passages anchored here · chapter xi.: on promises. · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 26 · ch. 30 2 passages anchored here · ch. 31 2 passages anchored here · ch. 34The episode of Abraham defending Lot is invoked as scriptural precedent for the principle under discussion.
Upon this principle Abraham took arms in defence of his kinsman Lot:
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Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 18 citations · 30 passages
ch. 3 3 passages anchored here · ch. 10 10 passages anchored here · ch. 11 2 passages anchored here · ch. 15 4 passages anchored here · ch. 18 2 passages anchored here · ch. 19 5 passages anchored here · ch. 23 · ch. 24 2 passages anchored hereand 1 more chapter
The verse is quoted as a premise and its location given exactly in the apparatus, which is citation of scriptural authority.
among them is what was said, “Let us create man after our image” (1) — and He, the Exalted, is not a body, so the soul likewise.
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Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 17 citations · 33 passages
chapter 9 3 passages anchored here · chapter 11 2 passages anchored here · chapter 15 3 passages anchored here · chapter 17 · chapter 18 2 passages anchored here · chapter 20 3 passages anchored here · chapter 22 · chapter 23and 12 more chapters
The creation and fall narrative Josaphat teaches derives directly from Genesis.
and making known many mysteries of theology, among which he also declared the things concerning the invisible and visible creation:
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De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 3 neutral 1 endorsed 16 citations · 19 passages
Genesis is repeatedly and directly quoted as scriptural authority throughout the argument for the flesh's dignity.
If Adam was the first man, but the flesh was man before the soul, without doubt the flesh shall have been made into a living soul.
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Adversus Praxean Tertullian 15 citations · 16 passages
The Genesis creation account is cited repeatedly as authoritative evidence for plural divine persons acting in creation.
"And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
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De Pudicitia Tertullian 12 citations · 8 passages
Quoted directly in chapter 16.
" "Let us make man," says God, "after our image and likeness;
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 extended 11 citations · 6 passages
Moses is cited as the authority for the prohibition against making likenesses of things in heaven or earth.
"you shall not make," says the prophet, "the likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath.
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Adversus Hermogenem Tertullian 1 extended 11 citations · 14 passages
Genesis wording is invoked to show the name God preceded the name Lord.
But Matter is nowhere, while this earth — that is, the one before our eyes — I see, I enjoy, from the time it ceased to be invisible and rough.
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Scorpiace Tertullian 2 neutral 11 citations · 7 passages
Explicitly named: 'Likewise in the same Exodus,' quoting the Decalogue and related prohibitions.
You shall not make to yourselves gods of silver, and gods of gold you shall not make to yourselves.
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De Anima Tertullian 7 citations
Genesis is cited via Adam's own prophetic words about marriage, read by Tertullian as a prefiguration of Christ and the Church.
If it is that he prophesied that great mystery concerning Christ and the Church — ‘This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh;
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De ieiunio adversus psychicos Tertullian 7 citations · 9 passages
Genesis narratives (Adam, Noah) are directly quoted and referenced as authoritative source material.
" For in the beginning indeed He had assigned to man only the food of herbs and trees:
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De Carne Christi Tertullian 5 citations · 6 passages
The psalms of David are explicitly named and quoted as prophetic authority for Christ's birth.
For us too the psalms shall be patrons to this effect — not, indeed, those of the apostate and heretic and Platonist Valentinus, but of the most holy and most received prophet David.
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De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 5 citations
Directly quotes the creation refrain from Genesis as authority for the claim that whatever comes from God is good.
So, if persecution is good in whatever way, because it is established by its state, we rightly define that what is good ought not to be avoided, because it would be a transgression to refuse what is good—the more so since it has seemed good to God—and indeed that it cannot even be avoided, because it comes from God, whose will cannot be escaped.
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 2 neutral 4 citations
Explicitly quoted scriptural verse used as evidence of a prohibition.
I have brought away the hallowed things out of my house .
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De Oratione Tertullian 1 neutral 4 citations · 7 passages
Genesis narratives (Cain and Lamech, the naming of Eve, the sons of God and daughters of men) are directly invoked as authoritative scripture.
And when Peter had asked whether he must forgive his brother seven times, Nay, he said, seventy times seven — that he might reform the law for the better, since in Genesis vengeance was reckoned for Cain sevenfold, but for Lamech seventy times seven.
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De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber Tertullian 3 citations · 5 passages
The passage repeatedly draws on the Genesis narrative of creation and the tree of knowledge as scriptural authority for its arguments.
And therefore we ought not to refer to the will of the Lord what has been set forth to our own choice, as though he himself willed, or did not will, what is good — he who does not will evil.
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 1 refuted 2 citations
The Deuteronomy passage on false prophets and death for those urging worship of strange gods is quoted and then explicitly argued to be inapplicable to the Calvinist and Jesuit executions.
Or have they built on this passage in Deuteronomy:
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De Baptismo Tertullian 2 citations
The creation account is directly invoked as scriptural proof for the argument about water's primordial dignity.
And the earth was invisible and unformed, and darkness was over the abyss, and the Spirit of the Lord was borne over the waters.
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De Corona Tertullian 2 citations
David is explicitly quoted as a scriptural source condemning idols, foundational to the argument against crowns as idol-adjacent.
"The idols of the nations," says David, "are silver and gold.
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De idolatria Tertullian 2 citations · 1 passage
David's words are directly quoted as further scriptural support against idol-fabrication.
" Where likewise David condemns the makers too:
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De Monogamia Tertullian 2 citations · 3 passages
Genesis creation and flood narratives are directly quoted and referenced as founding authority
for if it was so done from the beginning, we find ourselves directed by Christ to the beginning—as, in the question of divorce, when he says that it was permitted by Moses on account of their hardness, but from the beginning it was not so, he without doubt recalls to the beginning the indivisibility of marriage.
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De legendis gentilium libris Basil of Caesarea 1 citation
David is named directly as author of the sacred songs invoked as authoritative moral music.
But we must pursue the other kind, the better, the one that leads to the better—the very kind that David, the poet of the sacred songs, used, when, as they say, he restored the king from his madness.
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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation
The biblical prophecy is invoked as an apt and authoritative characterization of the Roman Empire's historical role.
Seen in this light, the Roman Empire is accurately described in the Prophecy of Daniel.
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660 Samuel Rawson Gardiner (ed.) 1 citation
The King invokes a phrase from the Book of Esther as rhetorical authority for defending his favoured servant against parliamentary censure.
It hath been said, ‘What shall be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour?
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Ad Nationes Tertullian 1 citation
Explicitly introduced as 'the divine pronouncement of Solomon' and relied on as authoritative.
Him whom they had not thoroughly admitted, they could neither know nor fear, nor thence be wise — straying, of course, from the beginning of wisdom, that is, the fear of God.
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De Cultu Feminarum Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage neutrally reports what Isaiah does and does not condemn before qualifying the implication
granting that Isaiah inveighs against no garment of purple, beats down no curled coiffure, reprobates no little crescents—yet let us not, like the heathen, so kindle these things upon ourselves, reckoning God only the Instituter, and not also the Despiser of His own institutions.
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De Paenitentia Tertullian 1 citation
The passage quotes prophetic oracles attributed to the Lord's own speech through the prophets as binding authority for the doctrine of repentance.
And again, I live, says the Lord, and I prefer repentance to death.
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De Patientia Tertullian 1 citation
The passage narrates in detail the losses, affliction, wife's provocation, and doubled restoration matching the Book of Job, without naming the source text directly but clearly invoking it as authority.
For he was not called away from the regard for God by so many griefs, but stood as an example and testimony to us, in spirit as in flesh, in mind as in body, of patience to be carried through — so that we may give way neither at the losses of worldly things, nor at the losses of our dearest, nor even at the afflictions of the body.
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De Virginibus Velandis Tertullian 1 citation · 5 passages
Genesis is named explicitly ('according to Genesis', 'Genesis calls Eve') and quoted extensively across multiple episodes (Eve's naming, the fall, sons of God)
"She shall be called woman," as one who was going to be this when she had unsealed her virginity—since He added also, "Therefore shall a man leave father and mother, and shall be joined to his woman, and the two shall be in one flesh.
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