Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 125:3

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 585, footnote 11 (Image)

Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents

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Revelation of John. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2600 (In-Text, Margin)

And again I said: Lord, and what of those who have received baptism? And I heard a voice saying to me: Then the race of the Christians shall be examined, who have received baptism; and then the righteous shall come at my command, and the angels shall go and collect them from among the sinners, as the prophet David foretold: The Lord will not suffer the rod of the sinners in the lot of the righteous;[Psalms 125:3] and all the righteous shall be placed on my right hand, and shall shine like the sun. As thou seest, John, the stars of heaven, that they were all made together, but differ in light, so shall it be with the righteous and the sinners; for the righteous shall shine as lights and as the sun, but the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 274, footnote 10 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On the Great Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3327 (In-Text, Margin)

... to overcome the good, the other enduring everything, that it might abide unsubdued; the one striving to smooth the way for vice, by means of the chastisement of the upright, the other to retain its hold upon the good, even if they do exceed others in misfortunes. What then of Him who answered Job out of the whirlwind and cloud, Who is slow to chastise and swift to help, Who suffers not utterly the rod of the wicked to come into the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous should learn iniquity?[Psalms 125:3] At the end of the contests He declares the victory of the athlete in a splendid proclamation and lays bare the secret of his calamities, saying: “Thinkest thou that I have dealt with thee for any other purpose than the manifestation of thy ...

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