Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 94:4

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 23, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

Of the Limits Which Must Be Put to the Necessity of Replying to an Adversary. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 86 (In-Text, Margin)

... even to the touch, so that they may be felt even by those who close their eyes against them. And yet to what end shall we ever bring our discussions, or what bounds can be set to our discourse, if we proceed on the principle that we must always reply to those who reply to us? For those who are either unable to understand our arguments, or are so hardened by the habit of contradiction, that though they understand they cannot yield to them, reply to us, and, as it is written, “speak hard things,”[Psalms 94:4] and are incorrigibly vain. Now, if we were to propose to confute their objections as often as they with brazen face chose to disregard our arguments, and so often as they could by any means contradict our statements, you see how endless, and ...