Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 19:35

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 13, page 113, footnote 4 (Image)

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Homilies on Ephesians. (HTML)

Ephesians 4:17-19 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 325 (In-Text, Margin)

... so himself also. How then do his lusts become corrupt? By death all things are dissolved; for hear the Prophet, how he saith, “In that very day his thoughts perish.” (Ps. cxlvi. 4.) And not by death only, but by many things besides; for instance, beauty, at the advance of either disease or old age, withdraws and dies away, and suffers corruption. Bodily vigor again is destroyed by the same means; nor does luxury itself afford the same pleasure in old age, as is evident from the case of Barzillai:[2 Samuel 19:31-35] the history, no doubt, ye know. Or again, in another sense, lust corrupts and destroys the old man; for as wool is destroyed by the very same means by which it is produced, so likewise is the old man. For love of glory destroys him, and pleasures ...