Hebrews, cited

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 this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 9 authority 9 citations · 13 passages

   book 1 · book 2 5 passages anchored here · book 4 4 passages anchored here · book 5 · book 6 · book 7

   The Epistle to the Hebrews is quoted extensively for its definition of faith and catalogue of faithful exemplars.

   "By faith we understand that the ages were framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not come from things that appear," says the Apostle.

2. Letters Basil of Caesarea 3 authority 3 citations

   letter 8 · letter 125 · letter 260

   Quoted alongside the Psalm to show Christ's voluntary lowering.

   For "You have made him a little lower than the angels," He says;

3. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 3 authority 3 citations · 5 passages

   ch. 9 2 passages anchored here · chapter xiii.: on oaths. 2 passages anchored here · ch. 36

   Explicitly cited by chapter and verse as scriptural authority in two separate arguments.

   To the preceding observations may be added, what the inspired writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews says of Gideon, Barack, Sampson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and others, who by faith made war upon kingdoms, prevailed in war and put whole armies of their enemies to flight.

4. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   adversus praxean

   The 'made a little lower than the angels' text is used as scriptural authority for the Son's incarnate suffering.

   and whatever else the heretics seize upon as unworthy of God, for the destruction of the Creator, not knowing that these things befit the Son — who was also to undergo human passions, both thirst and hunger and tears and the very nativity and the very death — for which cause he was made a little lower than the angels by the Father.

5. De Corona Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de corona

   The passage paraphrases the Hebrews teaching on Christ's humiliation and exaltation as scriptural authority for Christ's true crowning.

   Certainly, beyond the figure, the insult is at hand, and the disfigurement and the foulness, and the savagery interwoven with these, which then fouled and mangled the Lord's temples—so that you now may be crowned with laurel and myrtle and olive and some illustrious foliage, and—what is more in use—with hundredfold roses too, gathered from the garden of Midas, and with both kinds of lilies and wit …