Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 22:15

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 94, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters

The Confessions (HTML)

Attaining his thirtieth year, he, under the admonition of the discourses of Ambrose, discovered more and more the truth of the Catholic doctrine, and deliberates as to the better regulation of his life. (HTML)

On the Source and Cause of True Joy,—The Example of the Joyous Beggar Being Adduced. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 454 (In-Text, Margin)

... would reply, Merry. Again, were I asked whether I would rather be such as he was, or as I myself then was, I should elect to be myself, though beset with cares and alarms, but out of perversity; for was it so in truth? For I ought not to prefer myself to him because I happened to be more learned than he, seeing that I took no delight therein, but sought rather to please men by it; and that not to instruct, but only to please. Wherefore also didst Thou break my bones with the rod of Thy correction.[Proverbs 22:15]