Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Exodus 18:23

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 684, footnote 2 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Prayer. (HTML)

The Sixth Clause. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8811 (In-Text, Margin)

... the liberality of God, we should likewise address His clemency. For what will aliments profit us, if we are really consigned to them, as it were a bull destined for a victim? The Lord knew Himself to be the only guiltless One, and so He teaches that we beg “to have our debts remitted us.” A petition for pardon is a full confession; because he who begs for pardon fully admits his guilt. Thus, too, penitence is demonstrated acceptable to God who desires it rather than the death of the sinner.[Exodus 18:23] Moreover, debt is, in the Scriptures, a figure of guilt; because it is equally due to the sentence of judgment, and is exacted by it: nor does it evade the justice of exaction, unless the exaction be remitted, just as the lord remitted ...