Prudentius

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

59 passages across 15 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Genesis

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  1. Genesis 1:26
    The inspired historian makes it very clear
    That at earth’s dawn the Father not alone
    Nor without Christ his new creation formed.
    “God fashioned man,” he says, “and gave to him
    The face of God.” What but to say that he
    Was not alone, that God stood by God’s side
    When the Lord made man in image of the Lord?

    POEMS

  2. Genesis 8:6-7
    As a sign that the flood had abated
    the dove is now bringing
    Back to the ark in her beak
    the budding green branch of an olive.
    For the raven, held captive by gluttony,
    clung to foul bodies,
    While the dove brought back
    the glad tidings of peace that was given.

    SCENES FROM SACRED HISTORY 3

  3. Genesis 10:6-14
    A Nimrod, who goes round the world, made rough
    With deep ravines and wooden crags, and strives
    To waylay some by fraud and secret wiles,
    To vanquish others by his giant arms
    And spread his deadly triumphs far and wide.

    ORIGIN OF SIN 143-48

  4. Genesis 23:19
    This is the lodging place of the Lord, where an oak branch at Mamre
    Covered the pastoral roof of the ancient seer; in this hospice
    Sarah laughed at the joy of bearing a child in her old age
    And at the faith her venerable husband could have in the marvel.
    Abraham purchased a field wherein he might bury his wife’s bones,
    Inasmuch as justice and faith on the earth dwell as strangers:
    This is the cave for which he expended a great sum of money,
    To prepare a fit resting place for his wife’s holy ashes.

    SCENES FROM SACRED HISTORY 4-5

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