Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 23:12

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 168, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness. (HTML)

Who May Be Said to Keep the Ways of the Lord; What It is to Decline and Depart from the Ways of the Lord. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1471 (In-Text, Margin)

Then again, as for what he says, “For I have kept His ways, and have not turned aside from His commandments, nor will I depart from them;”[Job 23:11-12] he has kept God’s ways who does not so turn aside as to forsake them, but makes progress by running his course therein; although, weak as he is, he sometimes stumbles or falls, onward, however, he still goes, sinning less and less until he reaches the perfect state in which he will sin no more. For in no other way could he make progress, except by keeping His ways. The man, indeed, who declines from these and becomes an ...