Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 16:22

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 7, page 499, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies

Ten Homilies on the First Epistle of John. (HTML)

1 John III. 19–IV. 3. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2335 (In-Text, Margin)

... Lord under the name of water: and we have heard from this epistle, “Believe not every spirit;” and those words of Solomon bear witness, “From strange water keep thee far.” What meaneth, “water”? Spirit. Does water always signify spirit? Not always: but in some places it signifies the Spirit, in some places it signifies baptism, in some places signifies peoples, in some places signifies counsel: thus thou findest it said in a certain place, “Counsel is a fountain of life to them that possess it.”[Proverbs 16:22] So then, in divers places of the Scriptures, the term “water” signifies divers things. Now however by the term water ye have heard the Holy Spirit spoken of, not by an interpretation of ours but by witness of the Gospel, where it saith, “But this ...