Leviticus 26 in the early church

90 passages quote, allude to, or echo Leviticus 26, 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.

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Leviticus 26:1

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

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Lev 26:1Epistle of Barnabas 12.6 · Anonymousecho, medium confidenceca. 70–135 (often ca. 130)
Lev 26:1Antidote for the Scorpion's Sting 2 · Tertullianquotation, high confidenceca. 211–213
Lev 26:1Instructions 1.2 · Commodianallusion, medium confidence3rd century (disputed)

Leviticus 26:3

If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

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Lev 26:3PG 12:1153 (Ps 4 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 26:3Homilies on Leviticus 16.1 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:3Homilies on Leviticus 16.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:3–10Against Adimantus, a Disciple of Mani 20 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 394
Lev 26:3–8Leviticus, lines 248–272 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.

Leviticus 26:4

I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

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Lev 26:4PG 12:1153 (Ps 4 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 26:4Homilies on Leviticus 16.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:4Homilies on Leviticus 16.3 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:4Homilies on Leviticus 16.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 26:5

Your threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.

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Lev 26:5PG 12:1153 (Ps 4 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 26:5Homilies on Leviticus 16.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:5Homilies on Jeremiah 14.16 · Origenquotation, low confidenceca. 240

Leviticus 26:6

And I will give peace to the land, and you will lie down with nothing to fear. I will rid the land of dangerous animals, and no sword will pass through your land.

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Lev 26:6Homilies on Joshua 5.2 · Origenallusion, low confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:6Homilies on Leviticus 16.5 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:6Homilies on Leviticus 16.6 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:6Divine Institutes 5.23.3 · Lactantiusallusion, medium confidenceca. 303–311

Leviticus 26:7

You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you.

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Lev 26:7Homilies on Leviticus 16.6 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:7Tractates on the Psalms 128.6 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, low confidenceca. 360–367

Leviticus 26:8

Five of you will pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you will pursue ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

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Lev 26:8Homilies on Leviticus 16.7 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:8Homilies on Numbers 25.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 26:9

I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.

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Lev 26:9Homilies on Leviticus 16.7 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 26:10

You will still be eating the old supply of grain when you need to clear it out to make room for the new.

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Lev 26:10Homilies on Leviticus 5.8 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:10Homilies on Leviticus 16.7 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:10Commentary on Matthew 10.15 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248
Lev 26:10Demonstration 20.2 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Lev 26:10Letter 28 · Basil of Caesareaquotation, high confidenceca. 357–378
Lev 26:10On Cain and Abel 2.19 · Ambrosequotation, high confidenceca. 375-378

Leviticus 26:11

And I will make My dwelling place among you, and My soul will not despise you.

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Lev 26:11Homilies on Leviticus 16.7 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:11Commentary on Matthew 10.15 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 246–248

Leviticus 26:12

I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.

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Lev 26:12Miscellanies 3.11.73 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidenceca. 198–203
Lev 26:12Commentary on John 13.143 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 230–248
Lev 26:12On Prayer 23.4 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 233–234
Lev 26:12Homilies on Leviticus 16.7 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)
Lev 26:12Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.164 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Lev 26:12Against Celsus 8.18 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 248
Lev 26:12Commentary on Matthew 10.15 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 246–248
Lev 26:12Commentary on Romans 2.6 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 244–246 (Rufinus's translation ca. 405–406)
Lev 26:12Church History 10.4.56 · Eusebius of Caesareaecho, medium confidenceca. 300–325
Lev 26:12Martyrdom of Ignatius 1 · Anonymousallusion, medium confidence4th–5th century (disputed)
Lev 26:12Preparation for the Gospel 4.21.5 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, medium confidenceca. 313–324
Lev 26:12Demonstration 4.11 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Lev 26:12Demonstration 13.13 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Lev 26:12Demonstration 18.5 · Aphrahatquotation, high confidence337-345
Lev 26:12On Ecclesiastical Theology 3.16.1 · Eusebius of Caesareaallusion, medium confidenceca. 337–339
Lev 26:12Letter 10 · Ammonasallusion, medium confidenceca. 340-360
Lev 26:12Catechetical Lecture 12.35 · Cyril of Jerusalemallusion, medium confidenceca. 350
Lev 26:12On Not Agreeing with Heretics 13 · Lucifer of Cagliariquotation, medium confidenceca. 356–361
Lev 26:12On the Holy Spirit 24 · Didymus the Blindquotation, medium confidenceGreek ca. 360-390; Latin 387-391
Lev 26:12Tractates on the Psalms 131.6 · Hilary of Poitiersallusion, high confidenceca. 360–367
Lev 26:12Commentary on 2 Corinthians 6:17–18 · Ambrosiasterquotation, high confidenceca. 366–384
Lev 26:12Panarion (Adversus Haereses), Haer. 1-64 51.32.6 · Epiphanius of Salamisallusion, medium confidence374-377
Lev 26:12Exposition of Psalm 118 8.7.3 · Ambroseallusion, high confidenceca. 386-397
Lev 26:12Letter 187.35 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 386–430
Lev 26:12Sermon 330.8 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidenceca. 391-430
Lev 26:12City of God 22.30 · Augustine of Hippoquotation, high confidence413–426

Leviticus 26:13

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.

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Lev 26:13Homilies on Leviticus 16.7 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Rufinus's translation ca. 400–410)

Leviticus 26:14

If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,

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Lev 26:14–39Leviticus, lines 273–296 · Cyprianus Gallusallusion, high confidenceearly 5th cent.

Leviticus 26:16

then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.

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Lev 26:16PG 12:1153 (Ps 4 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254

Leviticus 26:18

And if after all this you will not obey Me, I will proceed to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

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Lev 26:18Homilies on Ezekiel 1.2 · Origenquotation, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)
Lev 26:18Homilies on Jeremiah 7.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Lev 26:18Homilies on Jeremiah 7.2 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240

Leviticus 26:21

If you walk in hostility toward Me and refuse to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times, according to your sins.

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Lev 26:21Homilies on Jeremiah 7.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Lev 26:21Homilies on Jeremiah 7.2 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 240
Lev 26:21Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.127 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)

Leviticus 26:23

And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

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Lev 26:23–24Fragment 16 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, medium confidencelate 2nd–early 3rd century
Lev 26:23–24Fragment 58 (Uncertain origin; on the iota and the stroke (Matthew 5:18)) · Clement of Alexandriaecho, low confidencelate 2nd-early 3rd century
Lev 26:23The Instructor 1.9.85 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Lev 26:23Homilies on Ezekiel 1.2 · Origenquotation, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)
Lev 26:23Homilies on Jeremiah 7.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Lev 26:23Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.127 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Lev 26:23–24Apostolic Constitutions 2.44.1 · Anonymousquotation, medium confidenceca. 380
Lev 26:23–24Liber Orsiesii 53 · Orsiesiusquotation, high confidenceca. 380-390

Leviticus 26:24

then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

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Lev 26:24The Instructor 1.9.85 · Clement of Alexandriaquotation, medium confidenceca. 190–200
Lev 26:24PG 12:1217 (Ps 16 LXX) · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 220-254
Lev 26:24Homilies on Jeremiah 7.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240
Lev 26:24Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.127 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)
Lev 26:24Oration 16.10 · Gregory of Nazianzusallusion, high confidenceca. 362–383

Leviticus 26:27

But if in spite of all this you do not obey Me, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

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Lev 26:27PG 12:1233 (Ps 17 LXX) · Origenquotation, medium confidenceca. 220-254

Leviticus 26:28

then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.

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Lev 26:28PG 12:1233 (Ps 17 LXX) · Origenquotation, medium confidenceca. 220-254

Leviticus 26:29

You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.

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Lev 26:29PG 12:1223 (Ps 16–17 LXX) · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 220-254

Leviticus 26:30

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

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Lev 26:30Miscellanies 1.21.120 · Clement of Alexandriaallusion, high confidenceca. 198–203

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

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Lev 26:34Homilies on Ezekiel 4.1 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)

Leviticus 26:40

But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—

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Lev 26:40Dialogue with Trypho 16.1 · Justin Martyrquotation, high confidenceca. 155–160
Lev 26:40Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.128 · Origenallusion, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)

Leviticus 26:41

and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,

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Lev 26:41Dialogue with Trypho 16.1 · Justin Martyrquotation, high confidenceca. 155–160
Lev 26:41Commentary on the Song of Songs 2.128 · Origenquotation, high confidenceca. 240–245 (Rufinus's translation ca. 410)

Leviticus 26:43

For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.

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Lev 26:43Homilies on Ezekiel 4.1 · Origenallusion, medium confidenceca. 238–250 (Jerome's translation in the 380s)