Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Deuteronomy 25:15

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 191, footnote 2 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

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Chapter VI.—By Divine Inspiration Philosophers Sometimes Hit on the Truth. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 922 (In-Text, Margin)

... sentiments is Plato, who somewhere alludes to God thus: “Around the King of all are all things, and He is the cause of all good things.” Who, then, is the King of all? God, who is the measure of the truth of all existence. As, then, the things that are to be measured are contained in the measure, so also the knowledge of God measures and comprehends truth. And the truly holy Moses says: “There shall not be in thy bag a balance and a balance, great or small, but a true and just balance shall be to thee,”[Deuteronomy 25:15] deeming the balance and measure and number of the whole to be God. For the unjust and unrighteous idols are hid at home in the bag, and, so to speak, in the polluted soul. But the only just measure is the only true God, always just, continuing the ...