The sources of De Fuga in Persecutione

1. 1 Corinthians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Paraphrased Pauline teaching about the weak and foolish things of the world confounding the strong and wise, used as authoritative support.

   For "the weak things of the world has God chosen, that the strong may be confounded;

2. 1 John John 1 authority 1 citation

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   Directly quotes Johannine teaching on love, fear, and laying down one's life, attributed explicitly to John.

   Likewise John teaches that our lives are to be laid down even for the brethren, much more for the Lord.

3. 2 Corinthians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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   Directly references and paraphrases Paul's account of the 'thorn'/'stake' given by an angel of Satan.

   or, for the cause of restraint, as the Apostle relates that there was given him "a stake, an angel of Satan, to buffet him"—and not even this kind is permitted to the devil against the saints to humble them through the vexation of the flesh, except at the same time that the virtue of endurance too may be perfected in infirmity.

4. Book of Job unknown (scriptural) 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Directly invokes the narrative and quoted divine speech of the Job story as authoritative proof of the argument.

   You have the example of Job, on whom the devil could inflict no temptation, unless he had received the power from God—not even upon his substance, until the Lord had said, "Behold, all that he has I give into your hand;

5. Book of Jonah unknown (scriptural) 1 authority 1 citation

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   Directly references the narrative of the prophet's flight and time in the belly of the great fish, without naming him, but unmistakably drawn from Jonah.

   A certain spirited prophet too had fled the Lord, had crossed over from Joppa to Tarshish, as if he could ferry away even from God;

6. Galatians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Directly quotes/paraphrases the 'cursed is he who has hung upon the tree' formula characteristic of Galatians' argument.

   But that you should redeem a man with money, whom Christ redeemed with His own blood—how unworthy of God and of His dispositions, who "spared not His own Son for you," that He might become "a curse for us"—because "cursed is he who has hung upon the tree"—who was "led like a sheep to the victim, and like a lamb before the shearer, so He opened not His mouth," but gave His back to the scourges, and …

7. Genesis Moses (traditional author) 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.

8. Isaiah unknown (prophet) 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Directly quotes prophetic oracles attributing to God the making of peace and evil, and smiting and healing.

   Since, then, these examples too come about rather in persecutions—seeing that we are then the more proved or reprobated, and are then the more humbled or corrected—it must be permitted or commanded by Him by whom, in part, these things are done catholically, namely, by Him who says, "I am He that makes peace and creates evils"—that is, war;

9. Psalms unknown (David, traditional author) 1 authority 1 citation

   de fuga in persecutione

   Directly quotes psalmic language ('the everlasting gates were lifted up... the King of glory') applied typologically to Christ.

   "The everlasting gates were lifted up, that the King of glory might enter, the Lord of hosts"—who purchased man from the earth, nay, from the lower regions, into the heavens.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

de fuga in persecutione 27 sources

1 Samuel · 1 Timothy / 2 Timothy · Acts (Simon Magus episode) · Acts of the Apostles · Apocalypse (Revelation) · Exodus (Moses' intercession) · Ezekiel and Jeremiah (oracles against shepherds) · Gospel (Good Shepherd discourse) · Gospel (Luke) · Gospel (Matthew) · Gospel (Matthew, Sermon on the Mount / Beatitudes) · Gospel (Parable of the Talents) · Gospel (render unto Caesar pericope) · Gospel sayings on giving to those who ask (cf. Luke 6) · Greek proverbial verse (unnamed poet) · Isaiah (Suffering Servant song) · Lord's Prayer · Parable of the unjust steward / friends of mammon (cf. Luke 16) · Romans / Ephesians (Pauline ethical teaching) · Saying on faith moving a mountain (cf. Matthew 17:20 / Luke 17:6) · Saying on many called, few chosen (cf. Matthew 22:14) · Saying on receiving the hard teaching (cf. Matthew 19:11-12) · Saying on the tunic and cloak (cf. Luke 6:29 / Matthew 5:40) · Scripture (unspecified permission of flight) · Teaching on perfect love casting out fear (cf. 1 John 4:18) · Zechariah (prophecy of refining) · Zechariah (shepherd oracle)