Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 11:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 355, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3950 (In-Text, Margin)

... virtue, making Christ entirely, or at any rate to the greatest extent possible, to dwell within them, so that the power of evil cannot meet with any empty place to fill it again with himself, and make the last state of that man worse than the first, by the greater energy of his assault, and the greater strength and impregnability of the fortress. But when, having guarded our soul with every care, and having appointed goings up in our heart, and broken up our fallow ground, and sown unto righteousness,[Proverbs 11:18] as David and Solomon and Jeremiah bid us, let us enlighten ourselves with the light of knowledge, and then let us speak of the Wisdom of God that hath been hid in a mystery, and enlighten others. Meanwhile let us purify ourselves, and receive the ...