Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 125:4

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 578, footnote 3 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (HTML)

The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)

Fragments of Clemens Alexandrinus (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3798 (In-Text, Margin)

... are intricate and crooked. For the way right and agreeable to nature which is intimated by the iota of Jesus, is His goodness, which constantly directs those who believe from hearing. “There shall not, therefore, pass from the law one iota or one tittle,” neither from the right and good the mutual promises, nor from the crooked and unjust the punishment assigned to them. “For the Lord doeth good to the good, but those who turn aside into crooked ways God will lead with the workers of iniquity.”[Psalms 125:4-5]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 171, footnote 15 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness. (HTML)

The Opposing Passages. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1524 (In-Text, Margin)

And yet the passages are true which he goes on to adduce by way of answer, saying: “The Saviour in the gospel declares, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.’ David also says, ‘Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in His holy place? He that is innocent in his hands, and pure in his heart;’ and again in another passage, ‘Do good, O Lord, unto those that be good and upright in heart.’[Psalms 125:4] So also in Solomon: ‘Riches are good unto him that hath no sin on his conscience;’ and again in the same book, ‘Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from wickedness.’ So in the Epistle of John, ‘If our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 314, footnote 16 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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The Fourth Theological Oration, Which is the Second Concerning the Son. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3667 (In-Text, Margin)

... with Him, and the sentence did not proceed upon the basis of a common Godhead. The “None is Good” meets the tempting Lawyer, who was testifying to His Goodness viewed as Man. For perfect goodness, He says, is God’s alone, even if a man is called perfectly good. As for instance, A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things. And, I will give the kingdom to one who is good above Thee. …Words of God, speaking to Saul about David. Or again, Do good, O Lord, unto the good[Psalms 125:4] …and all other like expressions concerning those of us who are praised, upon whom it is a kind of effluence from the Supreme Good, and has come to them in a secondary degree. It will be best of all if we can persuade you of this. But if not, what ...