Questions on Exodus
Quaestiones in Exodum
c. 453
Theodoret of Cyrus’s full Questions on Exodus (72 questions in this edition). Question 15 reports that the Samaritans call the Tetragrammaton Ἰαβέ (Iabe) and the Jews Ἰά (Ia).
Translated by Claude (study translation from Greek)
Greek: Theodoret of Cyrus, Quaestiones in Octateuchum / Questions on Exodus (CPG 6200.02; cf. Fernández Marcos and Sáenz-Badillos; also PG 80, cols. 225–298). English: study translation for BWAB Library—not the copyrighted Robert C. Hill (CUA Press) translation. The full Questions on Exodus (72 questions) is hosted here.
Contents
- “They became common”
- The midwives made themselves houses
- How Pharaoh’s daughter knew the child was Hebrew
- Moses’ foreign wife
- The one who appeared in the bush
- The bush burned but was not consumed
- Why Moses was commanded to loose the sandal
- Why God did not punish Pharaoh from the start
- The rod changed into a serpent
- The leprosy of the hand
- Moses weak-voiced and slow of tongue
- “I will harden Pharaoh’s heart”
- Why God allowed the people to suffer
- Why the angel wished to kill Moses
- The divine name (Ἰαβέ)
- Aaron’s wife’s father and brother
- How Moses became a god to Aaron
- Why God allowed the sorcerers to do the same
- Why the first plague was of water
- How the magicians also turned water to blood
- Why he warned them to gather the cattle indoors
- Why he killed the Egyptians’ firstborn
- Asking the Egyptians for gold and silver
- Why he commanded the Passover feast while they fled
- Red Sea divided into twelve parts?
- The wood at Marah
- Baptized into Moses in cloud and sea
- Why the rock was named Christ
- Manna as bread of angels
- Why it was called manna
- Why leftover manna spoiled
- No manna on the Sabbath
- Weapons against Amalek
- Moses’ outstretched hands
- A people for God’s own possession
- Washing garments at Sinai
- No other gods besides me
- Idol and likeness
- A jealous God
- Children punished for fathers
- The name of the Lord in vain
- Sabbath honored with rest
- Why the seventh day
- Altar of uncut stones
- Pierced ear of the Hebrew servant
- Serve him forever
- Flight of the involuntary manslayer
- Fully formed embryo
- The goring bull
- Fivefold for a calf, fourfold for a sheep
- “You shall not speak evil of gods”
- Flesh torn by wild beasts
- “You shall not appear empty before the Lord”
- Feasts of harvest and completion
- Blood not sacrificed upon leaven
- Lamb not boiled in its mother’s milk
- “I will fulfill the number of your days”
- The hornets sent before them
- The Euphrates land-promise
- Why the tabernacle was commanded
- Priests laying hands on the victims
- Odor of sweet savor
- Right shoulder and breast for the priest
- The hin
- The Sabbath as a sign
- Aaron and the golden calf
- “Let me alone, and I will blot them out”
- Breaking the tablets
- The veil on Moses’ face
- The incorruptible wood
- The gift given to Bezalel
- Erecting the tabernacle on the first new moon