Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Numbers 24:3

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 169, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness. (HTML)

The Second Passage. Who May Be Said to Abstain from Every Evil Thing. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1487 (In-Text, Margin)

“They are in the habit of next quoting,” says he, “the passage: ‘Every man is a liar.’” But here again he offers no solution of words which are quoted against himself even by himself; all he does is to mention other apparently opposite passages before persons who are unacquainted with the sacred Scriptures, and thus to cast the word of God into conflict. This is what he says: “We tell them in answer, how in the book of Numbers it is said, ‘Man is true.’[Numbers 24:3] While of holy Job this eulogy is read: ‘There was a certain man in the land of Ausis, whose name was Job; that man was true, blameless, righteous, and godly, abstaining from every evil thing.’” I am surprised that he has brought forward this passage, which says that Job ...