Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 94:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 277, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3843 (In-Text, Margin)

You say that the commandments of God are easy, and yet you cannot produce any one who has fulfilled them all. Answer me this: are they easy or are they difficult? If they are easy, then produce some one who has fulfilled them all. Explain also the words of the psalmist: “thou dost cause toil by thy law,”[Psalms 94:20] and “because of the words of thy lips I have kept hard ways.” And make plain our Lord’s sayings in the gospel: “enter ye in at the strait gate;” and “love your enemies;” and “pray for them which persecute you.” If on the other hand the commandments are difficult and if no man has kept them all, how have you presumed to say that they are easy? ...