Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 105:32

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 276, footnote 3 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3346 (In-Text, Margin)

... and the illegal enquiry into the actions of life, and the hired informers, and the pur chased sentences. Some were unjustly deposed from their sees, others intruded, and among other necessary qualifications, made to sign the bonds of iniquity: the ink was ready, the informer at hand. This the majority even of us, who were not overcome, had to endure, not falling in mind, though prevailed upon to sign, and so uniting with men who were in both respects wicked, and involving ourselves in the smoke,[Psalms 105:32] if not in the flame. Over this I have often wept, when contemplating the confusion of impiety at that time, and the persecution of the orthodox teaching which now arose at the hands of the patrons of the Word.