Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 10:27

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 260, footnote 6 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1453 (In-Text, Margin)

... fifteen years. And as God promises to them that serve Him truly, ‘I will fulfil the number of thy days,’ Abraham dies ‘full of days,’ and David besought God, saying, ‘Take me not away in the midst of my days.’ And Eliphaz, one of the friends of Job, being assured of this truth, said, ‘Thou shalt come to thy grave like ripe corn, gathered in due time, and like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.’ And Solomon confirming his words, says, ‘The souls of the unrighteous are taken away untimely[Proverbs 10:27].’ And therefore he exhorts in the book of Ecclesiastes, saying, ‘Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou hard: why shouldest thou die before thy time?’