Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 9:25

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 114, footnote 5 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall. (HTML)

Letter II (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 322 (In-Text, Margin)

Tell me, what is there stable in this world? Wealth which often does not last even to the evening? Or glory? Hear what a certain righteous man says: “My life is swifter than a runner.”[Job 9:25] For as they dash away before they stand still, even so does this glory take to flight before it has fairly reached us. Nothing is more precious than the soul; and even they who have gone to the extremity of folly have not been ignorant of this; for “there is no equivalent of the soul” is the saying of a heathen poet. I know that thou hast become much weaker for the struggle with the Evil One; I know that ...