1 Corinthians 10:4 Douay-Rheims

And all drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.)

Tertullian

c. A.D. 150–220 Patristic

But why enlarge on such a subject? When the very apostle whom our heretics adopt, interprets the law which allows an unmuzzled mouth to the oxen that tread out the corn, not of cattle, but of ourselves; and also alleges that the rock which followed (the Israelites) and supplied them with drink was Christ; teaching the Galatians, moreover, that the two narratives of the sons of Abraham had an allegorical meaning in their course; and to the Ephesians giving an intimation that, when it was declared in the beginning that a man should leave his father and mother and become one flesh with his wife, he applied this to Christ and the church.

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A.D. 220 · on 1Cor 10:4 (Against Marcion Book III)

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