Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 111:9

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 391, footnote 14 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

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CCEL Footnote 2527 (In-Text, Margin)

... præcepta servaverat;” non enim impleverat illud: “Diliges proximum tuum sicut teipsum:” tunc autem cum a Domino perficeretur, docebatur communicare et impertiri per charitatem. Honeste ergo non prohibuit esse divitem, sed esse divitem injuste et inexplebiliter. “Possessio (enim,) quæ cure iniquitate acceleratur, minor redditur.” “Sunt (enim,) qui seminantes multiplicant, et qui colligentes minus habent.” De quibus scripture est: “Dispersit, dedit pauperibus, justitia ejus manet in sæculum sæculi.”[Psalms 111:9] Qui enim “seminal et plura colligit,” is est, qui per terrenam et temporalem communicationem ac distributionem, cœlestia acquirit et æterna. Est autem alius, qui nemini impertit, let incassum “thesauros in terra colligit, ubi ærugo et tinea ...

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