Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 29:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 447, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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Correspondence with Saint Basil the Great, Archbishop of Cæsarea. (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 4733 (In-Text, Margin)

What I wrote before about our stay in Pontus was in joke, not in earnest; what I write now is very much in earnest. O that one would place me as in the month of those former days,[Job 29:2] in which I luxuriated with you in hard living; since voluntary pain is more valuable than involuntary delight. O that one would give me back those psalmodies and vigils and those sojournings with God in prayer, and that immaterial, so to speak, and unbodied life. O for the intimacy and one-souledness of the brethren who were by you divinized and exalted: O for the contest and incitement of virtue which we ...