Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Job 41:24

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 19, footnote 2 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril. (HTML)

On the Ten Points of Doctrine. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 640 (In-Text, Margin)

1. Vice mimics virtue, and the tares strive to be thought wheat, growing like the wheat in appearance, but being detected by good judges from the taste. The devil also transfigures himself into an angel of light; not that he may reascend to where he was, for having made his heart hard as an anvil[Job 41:24], he has henceforth a will that cannot repent; but in order that he may envelope those who are living an Angelic life in a mist of blindness, and a pestilent condition of unbelief. Many wolves are going about in sheeps’ clothing, their clothing being that of sheep, not so their claws and teeth: but clad in their soft skin, ...