Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 16:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 276, footnote 15 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3842 (In-Text, Margin)

... moving cause of all your actions, if you are made dependent on His Will, and if you have to echo the psalmist’s words: “mine eyes are ever toward the Lord: for it is he that shall pluck my feet out of the net.” And so you presume rashly to maintain that each individual is governed by his own choice. But if he is governed by his own choice, what becomes of God’s help? If he does not need Christ to rule him, why does Jeremiah write: “the way of man is not in himself” and “the Lord directeth his steps.”[Proverbs 16:9]