Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 16:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 248, footnote 5 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3059 (In-Text, Margin)

3. Fairer in my eyes, is the beauty which we can gaze upon than that which is painted in words: of more value the wealth which our hands can hold, than that which is imagined in our dreams; and more real the wisdom of which we are convinced by deeds, than that which is set forth in splendid language. For “a good understanding,” he saith, “have all they that do thereafter,” not they who proclaim it. Time is the best touchstone of this wisdom, and “the hoary head is a crown of glory.”[Proverbs 16:31] For if, as it seems to me as well as to Solomon, we must “judge none blessed before his death,” and it is uncertain “what a day may bring forth,” since our life here below has many turnings, and the body of our humiliation is ever rising, falling and ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 255, footnote 10 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On the Death of His Father. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3195 (In-Text, Margin)

... longer in existence, but for the most part having passed away with him, unable to bear with the place of our affliction, especially now that we have lost our skilful steersman, our light of life, to whom we looked to direct our course as the blazing beacon of salvation above us: he has departed with all his excellence, and all the power of pastoral organization, which he had gathered in a long time, full of days and wisdom, and crowned, to use the words of Solomon, with the hoary head of glory.[Proverbs 16:31] His flock is desolate and downcast, filled, as you see, with despondency and dejection, no longer reposing in the green pasture, and reared up by the water of comfort, but seeking precipices, deserts and pits, in which it will be scattered and ...