Genesis, 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 12 authority · 2 neutral 14 citations · 29 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 11 passages anchored here · book 3 3 passages anchored here · book 4 5 passages anchored here · book 5 3 passages anchored here · book 6 5 passages anchored here

   Genesis 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:

2. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 12 authority · 1 neutral 13 citations · 15 passages

   book 1 2 passages anchored here · book 2 4 passages anchored here · book 3 2 passages anchored here · book 4 2 passages anchored here · book 5 5 passages anchored here

   Three 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.

3. Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 4 authority 4 citations · 6 passages

   ch. 3 2 passages anchored here · ch. 15 2 passages anchored here · ch. 23 · ch. 25

   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.

4. Letters Basil of Caesarea 2 authority · 1 neutral · 1 extended 4 citations · 10 passages

   letter 46 2 passages anchored here · letter 150 · letter 260 6 passages anchored here · letter 269

   The 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;

5. De Carnis Resurrectione Tertullian 4 authority 4 citations · 9 passages

   de carnis resurrectione 9 passages anchored here

   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.

6. De Anima Tertullian 3 authority 3 citations · 4 passages

   de anima 4 passages anchored here

   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;

7. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 authority 2 citations

   ch. 30 · ch. 36

   The 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:

8. Adversus Hermogenem Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 7 passages

   adversus hermogenem 7 passages anchored here

   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.

9. Adversus Judaeos Tertullian 1 authority · 1 extended 2 citations · 4 passages

   adversus judaeos 4 passages anchored here

   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.

10. Adversus Praxean Tertullian 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

    adversus praxean 4 passages anchored here

    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.

11. Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 1 authority 1 citation

    chapter 34

    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:

12. De Baptismo Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    de baptismo

    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.

13. De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

    ch. 1 3 passages anchored here

    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.

14. De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    de fuga in persecutione

    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.

15. De ieiunio adversus psychicos Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

    ch. 1 2 passages anchored here

    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:

16. De Monogamia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

    de monogamia 2 passages anchored here

    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.

17. De Oratione Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

    de oratione 2 passages anchored here

    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.

18. De Pudicitia Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

    de pudicitia

    Quoted directly in chapter 16.

    " "Let us make man," says God, "after our image and likeness;

19. De Virginibus Velandis Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 5 passages

    de virginibus velandis 5 passages anchored here

    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.