Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 17:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 147, footnote 8 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 2110 (In-Text, Margin)

... their own measure and so stupid and foolish that they make themselves laughing stocks to those who see them because of their gesture or gait or dress or conversation. Fancying that they knew what is and what is not good taste they deck themselves out with finery and bodily adornments and give banquets which profess to be elegant: but all such attempts at dress and display are nastier than a beggar’s rags. As regards the obligation of priests to be teachers we bare have the precepts of the old Law[Deuteronomy 17:9-11] and the fuller instructions given on the subject to Titus. For an innocent and unobtrusive conversation does as much harm by its silence as it does good by its example. If the ravening wolves are to be frightened away it must be by the barking of ...