The sources of Scorpiace

1. Book of Isaiah Isaiah 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Named explicitly both times: 'according to Isaiah' and 'As Isaiah says.'

   For Isaiah too promises out of the red and scarlet a snowy and woolen whiteness.

2. Epistle to the Romans the apostle (Paul) 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

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   Explicitly attributed: 'The apostle too knows what kind of God he has ascribed, when he writes.'

   "If God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us, how has he not also, together with him, granted us all things?

3. Psalms David 2 authority 2 citations · 4 passages

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   Attributed 'as through David' for the idols quotation and 'as David sings' for the blessedness quotation.

   If you have ever read in David, "Lift up, O princes, your gates, and be lifted up, you eternal gates, and the King of glory shall enter in";

4. Book of Amos Amos 1 authority 1 citation

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   Amos is explicitly named and quoted as scriptural authority regarding the ascent into heaven.

   if likewise you have heard in Amos, "He who builds his ascent into the heavens, and pours out his outpouring upon the earth," know that that ascent too has thence been levelled by the footsteps of the Lord, and the entrance thence unbarred by the strength of Christ;

5. Book of Daniel unknown (attributed to Daniel/Jewish scripture) 1 neutral 1 citation

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   The quoted refusal ('We have no need to answer this thy command...') and the Daniel-and-lions narrative are drawn directly from the biblical Book of Daniel, though not named by title in the text.

   For Daniel too — the suppliant of none but God, and therefore accused and demanded by the Chaldeans — the shut-in and accustomed ferocity of the lions would surely at once have devoured, had Darius's worthy presumption about God deserved to be disappointed.

6. Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named: 'they remembered also Jeremiah writing to those upon whom that captivity was impending.'

   "And now you shall see the gods of the Babylonians, of gold and silver and wood, carried upon the shoulders, displaying fear to the nations.

7. Book of Numbers Moses 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Explicitly named: 'In Numbers, when Israel had turned aside at Shittim.'

   In Numbers, when Israel had turned aside at Shittim, they go off to lust after the daughters of Moab, are invited to idols, that they might fornicate in spirit too;

8. Deuteronomy Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named: 'According to these, in Deuteronomy too,' with multiple further quotations attributed to the same source.

   But thereafter too every mouth of the prophets sounds with the voices of the same God, heaping up his same Law by the renewal of the same precepts, and denouncing nothing first so principally as to beware of all making and worship of idols;

9. Exodus Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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   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.

10. First Epistle of John John 1 authority 1 citation

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    John's epistle is quoted verbatim on love casting out fear and interpreted at length.

    " John, indeed, exhorts us to lay down our lives even for the brethren, denying that there is fear in love.

11. First Epistle of Peter Peter 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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    Peter's epistle is directly quoted twice, on suffering for Christ's name and on honouring civil authority.

    Peter, forsooth, had laid down that the king indeed must be honoured — yet so that the king be honoured then, when he keeps to his own affairs, when he is far from divine honours;

12. First Epistle to the Thessalonians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Paul's epistle(s) to the Thessalonians are directly quoted on endurance under persecution and on his chains.

    when, rejoicing over the Thessalonians, "That we may glory," he says, "in you in the Churches of God, for your endurance and faith in all persecutions and afflictions which you sustain, a showing-forth of the just judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of his kingdom, for which also you suffer.

13. Gospel of Matthew 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

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    Multiple Gospel sayings on persecution, confession, denial, and the sword are quoted as authoritative dominical teaching throughout the window.

    "Think not that I have come to send peace on the earth, but a sword" — certainly upon the earth.

14. Leviticus Moses 1 authority 1 citation

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    Explicitly named: 'But in Leviticus: "Follow not idols," he says.'

    "Follow not idols," he says, "and molten gods you shall not make to yourselves.

15. Second Epistle to Timothy Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Paul's letter to Timothy is quoted as his culminating testimony approaching his own martyrdom.

    I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith;

16. Second Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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    Paul's catalogue of afflictions to the Corinthians is quoted as direct evidence of apostolic suffering.

    But Paul the apostle, of a persecutor — who first shed the blood of the Church — afterwards changing the sword for the pen and turning the falchion into a ploughshare, "a ravening wolf of Benjamin," thereafter himself bringing food, according to Jacob — how does he commend martyrdoms as now even to be desired by himself!

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

scorpiace 8 sources

Acts of the Apostles · Apocalypse (Revelation) · Aratus's Phaenomena (implied) · Lives of the Caesars · Roman superstition (doorkeeper deities) · Valentinian teaching (unnamed treatise/doctrine) · Wisdom of Solomon (Book of Proverbs / Wisdom literature) · unnamed report of the apostle's deed (viper episode)