Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Chronicles 11:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 123, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1798 (In-Text, Margin)

... think me mistaken or led astray by affection than that you should hold me capable of fawning on a friend. You have a great intellect and an inexhaustible store of language, your diction is fluent and pure, your fluency and purity are mingled with wisdom. Your head is clear and all your senses keen. Were you to add to this wisdom and eloquence a careful study and knowledge of scripture, I should soon see you holding our citadel against all comers; you would go up with Joab upon the roof of Zion,[1 Chronicles 11:5-6] and sing upon the housetops what you had learned in the secret chambers. Gird up, I pray you, gird up your loins. As Horace says:—