Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 37:27

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 472, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace. (HTML)

The Catholic Faith Concerning Law, Grace, and Free Will. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3239 (In-Text, Margin)

Now the Lord Himself not only shows us what evil we should shun, and what good we should do, which is all that the letter of the law is able to effect; but He moreover helps us that we may shun evil and do good,[Psalms 37:27] which none can do without the Spirit of grace; and if this be wanting, the law comes in merely to make us guilty and to slay us. It is on this account that the apostle says, “The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.” He, then, who lawfully uses the law learns therein evil and good, and, not trusting in his own strength, flees to grace, by the help of which he may shun evil and do ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 208, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2574 (In-Text, Margin)

14. In the second place, although a man has kept himself pure from sin, even in a very high degree; I do not know that even this is sufficient for one who is to instruct others in virtue. For he who has received this charge, not only needs to be free from evil, for evil is, in the eyes of most of those under his care, most disgraceful, but also to be eminent in good, according to the command, “Depart from evil and do good.”[Psalms 37:27] And he must not only wipe out the traces of vice from his soul, but also inscribe better ones, so as to outstrip men further in virtue than he is superior to them in dignity. He should know no limits in goodness or spiritual progress, and should dwell upon the loss of what is still ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 343, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On the Words of the Gospel, 'When Jesus Had Finished These Sayings,' Etc.--S. Matt. xix. 1. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3840 (In-Text, Margin)

... then, seem by nature to incline to good. And when I speak of nature, I am not slighting free will, but supposing both—an aptitude for good, and that which brings the natural aptitude to effect. And there are others whom reason cleanses, by cutting them off from the passions. These I imagine to be meant by those whom men have made Eunuchs, when the word of teaching distinguishing the better from the worse and rejecting the one and commanding the other (like the verse, Depart from evil and do good),[Psalms 37:27] works spiritual chastity. This sort of making eunuchs I ap prove; and I highly praise both teachers and taught, that the one have nobly effected, and the other still more nobly endured, the cutting off.