Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Esther 5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 225, footnote 9 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin. (HTML)

On the Grace of Christ. (HTML)

God by His Wonderful Power Works in Our Hearts Good Dispositions of Our Will. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1848 (In-Text, Margin)

... wife Esther “abhorred his bed,” whilst sitting upon the throne of his kingdom, and clothed in all his glorious apparel, adorned all over with gold and precious stones, and dreadful in his majesty when he raised his face, which was inflamed with anger, in the midst of his splendour, and beheld her, with the glare of a wild bull in the fierceness of his indignation; and the queen was afraid, and her colour changed as she fainted, and she bowed herself upon the head of the maid that went before her;[Esther 5:1] —I want him to tell us whether this king had yet “hastened to the Lord, and had desired to be directed by Him, and had subordinated his own will to His, and had, by cleaving fast to God, become one spirit with Him, simply by the force of his own ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 463, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on Grace and Free Will. (HTML)

Abstract. (HTML)

God Does Whatsoever He Wills in the Hearts of Even Wicked Men. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3205 (In-Text, Margin)

... the Lord. So strongly was she urged by the necessity of the case, that she even ventured into the royal presence with out the king’s command, and contrary to her own custom. Now observe what the Scripture says: “He looked at her like a bull in the vehemence of his indignation; and the queen was afraid, and her colour changed as she fainted; and she bowed herself upon the head of her delicate maiden which went before her. But God turned the king, and transformed his indignation into gentleness.”[Esther 5] The Scripture says in the Proverbs of Solomon, “Even as the rush of water, so is the heart of a king in God’s hand; He will turn it in whatever way He shall choose.” Again, in the 104th Psalm, in reference to the Egyptians, one reads what God did to ...