Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 91:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 140, footnote 4 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1998 (In-Text, Margin)

... the man that was born blind from the womb and asked our Lord and Saviour: “Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” they were told “Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.” Do we not see numbers of heathens, Jews, heretics and men of various opinions rolling in the mire of lust, bathed in blood, surpassing wolves in ferocity and kites in rapacity, and for all this the plague does not come nigh their dwellings?[Psalms 91:10] They are not smitten as other men, and accordingly they wax insolent against God and lift up their faces even to heaven. We know on the other hand that holy men are afflicted with sicknesses, miseries, and want, and perhaps they are tempted to say ...