Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 5:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 248, footnote 20 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3074 (In-Text, Margin)

... what is their due, and dilutes with compassion the unmixed draught of His wrath. For He inclines from severity to indulgence towards those who accept chastisement with fear, and who after a slight affliction conceive and are in pain with conversion, and bring forth the perfect spirit of salvation; but nevertheless he reserves the dregs, the last drop of His anger, that He may pour it out entire upon those who, instead of being healed by His kindness, grow obdurate, like the hard-hearted Pharaoh,[Exodus 5:6] that bitter taskmaster, who is set forth as an example of the power of God over the ungodly.