TRV
Pseudo-Tertullian
Date uncertain · 3 passages across 2 books
Commentary
2 Chronicles 30:1
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
As corrector of an inert People
That emulator [of David] Hezekiah arose;
He restored the Law to a sinful, forgetful people
All God’s mandates of old, he first
Commanded the people to observe,
Who ended war by his prayers,
Not by steel’s point: he, dying, had a grant
Of years and times of life made to his tears:
Deservedly such honor his career obtained.
That emulator [of David] Hezekiah arose;
He restored the Law to a sinful, forgetful people
All God’s mandates of old, he first
Commanded the people to observe,
Who ended war by his prayers,
Not by steel’s point: he, dying, had a grant
Of years and times of life made to his tears:
Deservedly such honor his career obtained.
2 Chronicles 34:1-8
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
With zeal immense, Josiah,
Himself a prince, acted in such a way
As no one before or after him had ever done!—Idols he
Dethroned; destroyed unhallowed temples; burned
With fire priests on their altars; all the bones
Of false prophets were dug up; the altars burned,
The carcasses to be consumed did serve
For fuel!
Himself a prince, acted in such a way
As no one before or after him had ever done!—Idols he
Dethroned; destroyed unhallowed temples; burned
With fire priests on their altars; all the bones
Of false prophets were dug up; the altars burned,
The carcasses to be consumed did serve
For fuel!
Matthew 22:23-32
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
For of Judaism’s heretics I am silent - Dositheus the Samaritan, I mean, who was the first who had the hardihood to repudiate the prophets, on the ground that they had not spoken under inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Of the Sadducees I am silent, who, springing from the root of this error, had the hardihood to adjoin to this heresy the denial likewise of the resurrection of the flesh.