Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 55:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 119, footnote 9 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1740 (In-Text, Margin)

... condemns the incontinence of age. Do not, I repeat, weigh faith by years, nor suppose me better than yourself merely because I have enlisted under Christ’s banner earlier than you. The apostle Paul, that chosen vessel framed out of a persecutor, though last in the apostolic order is first in merit. For though last he has laboured more than they all. To Judas it was once said: thou art a man who didst take sweet food with me, my guide and mine acquaintance; we walked in the house of God with company:”[Psalms 55:13] yet the Saviour accuses him of betraying his friend and master. A line of Virgil well describes his end: