Nicene/Post-Nicene, Series I, Volume 12
Augustine, A.D. 354 - 430
... or as if water never flowed from
the rock when Moses struck it, because therein
Christ can be seen in a figure, as the same apostle says,
"Now that rock was Christ!"...
City of God, Book XIII, Chapter 21
... "And the children of Judah and the children of
Israel shall be gathered together in one, and shall
appoint themselves one headship, and shall ascend from
the earth." We should but weaken the savor of this
prophetic oracle if we set ourselves to expound it. Let
the reader but call to mind that cornerstone and
those two walls of partition, the one of the Jews, the
other of the Gentiles, and he will recognize them, the
one under the term sons of Judah, the other as sons of
Israel, supporting themselves by one and the same
headship, and ascending from the earth....
City of God, Book XVIII, Chapter 28
... For all typical things seem in some way to personate
those whom they typify, as it is said by the apostle,
"That Rock was Christ."...
City of God, Book XVIII, Chapter 48
... He has given, therefore, the keys to His Church, that
whatsoever it should bind on earth might be bound in
heaven, and whatsoever it should loose on earth might be,
loosed in heaven; that is to say, that whosoever in the
Church should not believe that his sins are remitted,
they should not be remitted to him; but that whosoever
should believe and should repent, and turn from his sins,
should be saved by the same faith and repentance on the
ground of which he is received into the bosom of the
Church....
On Christian Doctrine, Book
I, Chapter 18
... "When Gideon was startled by the message he had
heard from God, that, though thousands of the people
failed, yet through one man God would deliver His people
from their enemies, he brought forth a kid of the goats,
and by direction of the angel laid it with unleavened
cakes upon a rock, and poured the broth over it;
and as soon as the angel of God touched it with the end
of the staff that was in his hand, there rose up fire out
of the rock and consumed the offering. Now this
sign seems to indicate that the rock was a type of
the body of Christ, for it is written, `They drank of
that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock
was Christ' ... .
On Christian Doctrine, Book
IV, Chapter 21, § 46
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