Leviticus 22 in the early church
21 passages quote, allude to, or echo Leviticus 22, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.
Verses: 4 · 10 · 12 · 13 · 18 · 21 · 22 · 27 · 28
Leviticus 22:4
If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:4 | Letter 64.2 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
Leviticus 22:10
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:10–11 | Letter 64.2 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Lev 22:10–25 | Leviticus, lines 200–224 · Cyprianus Gallus | allusion, high confidence | early 5th cent. |
Leviticus 22:12
If the priest’s daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:12 | Letter 123.6 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
Leviticus 22:13
But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:13 | On Monogamy 7 · Tertullian | allusion, high confidence | ca. 210–217 |
| Lev 22:13 | Letter 64.2 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Lev 22:13 | Letter 123.6 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Lev 22:13 | Against Jovinianus 1.20 · Jerome | allusion, high confidence | 393 |
Leviticus 22:18
“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:18 | Question 103, section 1 · Ambrosiaster | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 370–384 |
Leviticus 22:21
When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:21 | Miscellanies 4.18.117 · Clement of Alexandria | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Lev 22:21 | Commentary on Romans 10.11 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406) |
| Lev 22:21 | Oration 2.40 · Gregory of Nazianzus | allusion, high confidence | ca. 362–383 |
| Lev 22:21 | On Cain and Abel 2.8 · Ambrose | allusion, low confidence | ca. 375-378 |
| Lev 22:21 | On the Grace of Christ and On Original Sin 2.37 · Augustine of Hippo | allusion, low confidence | 418 |
Leviticus 22:22
You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as a food offering to the LORD.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:22 | Commentary on Romans 9.1 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406) |
| Lev 22:22 | Letter 107.6 · Jerome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Lev 22:22 | Sermon 109 · Peter Chrysologus | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 425-450 |
Leviticus 22:27
“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:27 | Miscellanies 2.18.92 · Clement of Alexandria | allusion, high confidence | ca. 198–203 |
| Lev 22:27 | Tractates on the Psalms 118.0.5 · Hilary of Poitiers | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 360–367 |
| Lev 22:27 | Exposition of Psalm 118 0.2.2 · Ambrose | allusion, low confidence | ca. 386-397 |
Leviticus 22:28
But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lev 22:28 | Miscellanies 2.18.93 · Clement of Alexandria | allusion, high confidence | ca. 198–203 |