Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 11:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 465, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 4380 (In-Text, Margin)

... is come for the judgment of those who belong to the house of God. If sons are scourged, what must the most wicked slaves expect? For which reason he added: “And if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?” To which he added this testimony: “For if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?” How then shall the wicked be with Thee, if Thou dost not even spare Thy faithful, in order that Thou mayest exercise and teach them?[Proverbs 11:31] But as He spareth them not, for this reason, that He may teach them: he saith, “For Thou makest sorrow in learning.” “Makest,” that is, formest: from whence comes the word figulus (from fingo), and a potter’s vessel is called fictile: ...