Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 49:18

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 86, footnote 1 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

The Shows, or De Spectaculis. (HTML)

Chapter XV. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 363 (In-Text, Margin)

... desire, there is no pleasure, and he is chargeable with trifling who goes where nothing is gotten; in my view, even that is foreign to us. Moreover, a man pronounces his own condemnation in the very act of taking his place among those with whom, by his disinclination to be like them, he confesses he has no sympathy. It is not enough that we do no such things ourselves, unless we break all connection also with those who do. “If thou sawest a thief,” says the Scripture, “thou consentedst with him.”[Psalms 49:18] Would that we did not even inhabit the same world with these wicked men! But though that wish cannot be realized, yet even now we are separate from them in what is of the world; for the world is God’s, but the worldly is the devil’s.