Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezra 4

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 2, page 108, footnote 1 (Image)

Socrates: Church History from A.D. 305-438; Sozomenus: Church History from A.D. 323-425

The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus. (HTML)

Book IV (HTML)

The Deeds of Some Holy Persons who devoted themselves to a Solitary Life. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 628 (In-Text, Margin)

... with the heat and thirst, I begged for some water to drink: ‘Content yourself with the shade,’ was his reply, ‘for many who are now journeying by land, or sailing on the deep, are deprived even of this.’ Discussing with him afterwards the subject of abstinence, ‘Take courage, my son,’ said he: ‘for twenty years I have neither eaten, drunk, nor slept to satiety; my bread has always been weighed, my water measured, and what little sleep I have had has been stolen by reclining myself against a wall.’[Ezra 4:10-11] The death of his father was announced to one of the monks: ‘Cease your blasphemy,’ said he to the person that told him; ‘my father is immortal.’ One of the brethren who possessed nothing but a copy of the Gospels, sold it, and distributed the price ...