Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Proverbs 10:14
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 252, footnote 7 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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Chapter VII.—Directions for Those Who Live Together. (HTML)
... qualities that belong to him playfully, by censure of the bad quantities, which do not. For this device is instructive, confirming as it does what is present by what is not present. Such, certainly, is the intention of him who says that a water-drinker and a sober man gets intoxicated and drunk. But if there are those who like to jest at people, we must be silent, and dispense with superfluous words like full cups. For such sport is dangerous. “The mouth of the impetuous approaches to contrition.”[Proverbs 10:14] “Thou shalt not receive a foolish report, nor shalt thou agree with an unjust person to be an unjust witness,” neither in calumnies nor in injurious speeches, much less evil practices. I also should think it right to impose a limit on the speech of ...
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 448, footnote 12 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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Chapter III.—The Objects of Faith and Hope Perceived by the Mind Alone. (HTML)
For they heard, I think, that excellent wisdom, which says to us, “Watch your opportunity in the midst of the foolish, and in the midst of the intelligent continue.” And again, “The wise will conceal sense.”[Proverbs 10:14] For the many demand demonstration as a pledge of truth, not satisfied with the bare salvation by faith.