Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 23:29

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 244, footnote 8 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

Clement of Alexandria (HTML)

The Instructor (HTML)

Book II (HTML)
Chapter II.—On Drinking. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1373 (In-Text, Margin)

So he adds these most monitory words. “Who has woes, who has clamour, who has contentions, who has disgusting babblings, who has unavailing remorse?”[Proverbs 23:29-30] You see, in all his raggedness, the lover of wine, who despises the Word Himself, and has abandoned and given himself to drunkenness. You see what threatening Scripture has pronounced against him. And to its threatening it adds again: “Whose are red eyes? Those, is it not, who tarry long at their wine, and hunt out the places where drinking goes on?” Here he shows the lover of drink to be already dead to the Word, by the ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 498, footnote 15 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (HTML)

Book VIII. Concerning Gifts, and Ordinations, and the Ecclesiastical Canons (HTML)

Sec. IV.—Certain Prayers and Laws (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3749 (In-Text, Margin)

... says it? “Drink not wine to drunkenness;” and again, “Thorns spring up in the hand of the drunkard.” Nor do we say this only to those of the clergy, but also to every lay Christian, upon whom the name of our Lord Jesus Christ is called. For to them also it is said, “Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath uneasiness? who hath babbling? who hath red eyes? who hath wounds without cause? Do not these things belong to those that tarry long at the wine, and that go to seek where drinking meetings are?”[Proverbs 23:29-30]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 17, footnote 8 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

De Spiritu Sancto. (HTML)

That they who deny the Spirit are transgressors. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 939 (In-Text, Margin)

27. “ hath woe? Who hath sorrow?”[Proverbs 23:29] For whom is distress and darkness? For whom eternal doom? Is it not for the transgressors? For them that deny the faith? And what is the proof of their denial? Is it not that they have set at naught their own confessions? And when and what did they confess? Belief in the Father and in the Son and in the Holy Ghost, when they renounced the devil and his angels, and uttered those saving words. What fit title then for them has been discovered, for the children of light to use? Are ...

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