Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 31:15

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 260, footnote 16 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1463 (In-Text, Margin)

... from their Saviour (for all of them before His coming, nay always, were under His teaching), in their conflicts with their persecutors acted lawfully in flying, and hiding themselves when they were sought after. And being ignorant, as men, of the end of the time which Providence had appointed unto them, they were unwilling at once to deliver themselves up into the power of those who conspired against them. But knowing on the other hand what is written, that ‘the portions’ of man ‘are in God’s hand[Psalms 31:15],’ and that ‘the Lord killeth,’ and the Lord ‘maketh alive,’ they the rather endured unto the end, ‘wandering about,’ as the Apostle has said, ‘in sheepskins, and goatskins, being destitute, tormented, wandering in deserts,’ and hiding themselves ‘in ...

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