Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Proverbs 13:13
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 522, footnote 17 (Image)
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... clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not devoted his soul to vanity, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. For he,’ as the Psalmist adds, when he goes up, ‘shall receive a blessing from the Lord.’ Now this clearly also refers to what the Lord gives to them at the right hand, saying, ‘Come, ye blessed, inherit the kingdom prepared for you.’ But the deceitful, and he that is not pure of heart, and possesses nothing that is pure (as the Proverb saith, ‘To a deceitful man there is nothing good[Proverbs 13:13] ’), shall assuredly, being a stranger, and of a different race from the saints, be accounted unworthy to eat the Passover, for ‘a foreigner shall not eat of it.’ Thus Judas, when he thought he kept the Passover, because he plotted deceit against the ...