Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 8:36

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 129, footnote 7 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

Appendix (HTML)

A Strain of Sodom. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1217 (In-Text, Margin)

By nature rebels ’gainst themselves;[Proverbs 8:36] and hurts

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 429, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Against Two Letters of the Pelagians. (HTML)

Book IV (HTML)

Further Appeals to Cyprian’s Teaching. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2862 (In-Text, Margin)

... worst merit. And yet, Cyprian even thus understands what we say in the prayer, “Thy will be done in heaven, and in earth:” that we pray also for those very persons who in this respect are called earth. We pray, therefore, not only for the unwilling, but also for the objecting and resisting. What, then, do we ask, but that from unwilling they may be made willing; from objecting, consenting; from resisting, loving? And by whom, but by Him of whom it is written, “The will is prepared by God”?[Proverbs 8:36] Let them, then, who disdain, if they do not do any evil and if they do any good, to glory, not in themselves, but in the Lord, learn to be catholics.