Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 11:17

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 124, footnote 1 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great. (HTML)

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On the Fast of the Tenth Month. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 699 (In-Text, Margin)

... ingathering of the crops was complete, we might dedicate to God our reasonable service of abstinence, and each might remember so to use his abundance as to be more abstinent in himself and more open-handed towards the poor. For forgiveness of sins is most efficaciously prayed for with almsgiving and fasting, and supplications that are winged by such aids mount swiftly to God’s ears: since as it is written, “the merciful man doeth good to his own soul[Proverbs 11:17],” and nothing is so much a man’s own as that which he spends on his neighbour. For that part of his material possessions with which he ministers to the needy, is transformed into eternal riches, and such wealth is begotten of this bountifulness as ...