Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Genesis 45:24

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 685, footnote 7 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Prayer. (HTML)

When Praying the Father, You are Not to Be Angry with a Brother. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8832 (In-Text, Margin)

... chief is, that we go not up unto God’s altar before we compose whatever of discord or offence we have contracted with our brethren. For what sort of deed is it to approach the peace of God without peace? the remission of debts while you retain them? How will he appease his Father who is angry with his brother, when from the beginning “all anger” is forbidden us? For even Joseph, when dismissing his brethren for the purpose of fetching their father, said, “And be not angry in the way.”[Genesis 45:24] He warned us, to be sure, at that time (for elsewhere our Discipline is called “the Way”), that when, set in “the way” of prayer, we go not unto “the Father” with anger. After that, the Lord, “amplifying the Law,” openly adds the ...