Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Psalms 119:66
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 494, footnote 9 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book VI (HTML)
Chapter VIII.—Philosophy is Knowledge Given by God. (HTML)
And should one say that it was through human understanding that philosophy was discovered by the Greeks, still I find the Scriptures saying that understanding is sent by God. The psalmist, accordingly, considers understanding as the greatest free gift, and beseeches, saying, “I am Thy servant; give me understanding.” And does not David, while asking the abundant experience of knowledge, write, “Teach me gentleness, and discipline, and knowledge: for I have believed in Thy commandments?”[Psalms 119:66] He confessed the covenants to be of the highest authority, and that they were given to the more excellent. Accordingly the psalm again says of God, “He hath not done thus to any nation; and He hath not shown His judgments to them.” The expression “He ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 533, footnote 2 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book VII (HTML)
Chapter VII.—What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It is Heard by God. (HTML)
Now the excellence of knowledge is evidently presented by the prophet when he says, “Benignity, and instruction, and knowledge teach me,”[Psalms 119:66] magnifying the supremacy of perfection by a climax.