Êxodo 17
Ambrose of Milan · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Êxodo 17:6
The people of the fathers thirsted, Moses touched the rock, and water flowed out of the rock. Did not grace work a result contrary to nature, so that the rock poured forth water, which by nature it did not contain? — On the Mysteries 9.51
Êxodo 17:6
It does not surpass faith that a virgin gave birth, when we read that even a rock poured out water and that the waves of the sea were made solid in the form of a wall. — Letter 42.7
Êxodo 17:12
Moses showed this when his hands became so heavy that Joshua the son of Nun could hardly hold them up. For that reason the people conquered when they performed works not carelessly but with full consideration and virtue—not with faltering souls nor with a wavering disposition but with the stability of a firm mind. — LETTER 7 (37).33