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The Great Cloud of Witnesses · The Fathers & the Creeds

Severian of Gabala

?–425

Patristic / Eastern voice, d. ~425

The life

Severian of Gabala (d. ~425). Patristic / Eastern voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full profile pending.

In their own words

  • “Circumcision means nothing by itself, but it was a command of God. On the other hand, uncircumcised is the way God made us, so there is no reward for that either.”

    PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH · on the verse

  • “When love does not lead, there is no completion of what is lacking; but, where love is present we abstain from doing evil to one another. Indeed we put our minds in the service of doing good, when we love one another. .”

    Commentary (church-history corpus) · on the verse

  • “"By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau." First he gave it to Jacob, then to Esau, not according to the sequence of their birth but according to the order of spiritual blessing.”

    FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 11.2 · on the verse