Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 7:23

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 148, footnote 4 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2106 (In-Text, Margin)

... made a split in the solitaries’ spirit, driving those of exacter discipline into fear and cowardice, while they still wonder at the power of the devil, and seducing the careless into imitation of your incontinence. So far as you have been able, you have destroyed the boast of Christ, Who said, “Be of good cheer I have overcome the world,” and its Prince. You have mixed for your country a bowl of ill repute. Verily you have proved the truth of the proverb, “Like a hart stricken through the liver.”[Proverbs 7:22-23]