Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 8:8

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 9, page 413, footnote 2 (Image)

Gospel of Peter, Diatessaron, Apocalypses, Visio Pauli, Testament of Abraham, Acts of X/P, Zosimus, Aristides, Clement, Origen

Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. (HTML)

Origen's Commentary on Matthew. (HTML)

From the Second Book of the Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 5155 (In-Text, Margin)

“ Blessed are the peacemakers.…” To the man who is a peacemaker in either sense there is in the Divine oracles nothing crooked or perverse, for they are all plain to those who understand.[Proverbs 8:8-9] And because to such an one there is nothing crooked or perverse, he sees therefore abundance of peace in all the Scriptures, even in those which seem to be at conflict, and in contradiction with one another. And likewise he becomes a third peacemaker as he demonstrates that that which appears to others to be a conflict in the Scriptures is no conflict, and exhibits their concord and peace, whether ...