Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 23:32

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 299, footnote 5 (Image)

Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters

Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.) (HTML)

Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.) (HTML)

Persecution in Egypt. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1782 (In-Text, Margin)

... any one now venture to say that this is a peaceful time with Christians, and not a time of persecution? A persecution indeed, such as never arose before, and such as no one perhaps will again stir up, except ‘the son of lawlessness,’ do these enemies of Christ exhibit, who already present a picture of him in their own persons. Wherefore it especially behoves us to be sober, lest this heresy which has reached such a height of impudence, and has diffused itself abroad like the ‘poison of an adder[Proverbs 23:32],’ as it is written in the Proverbs, and which teaches doctrines contrary to the Saviour; lest, I say, this be that ‘falling away,’ after which He shall be revealed, of whom Constantius is surely the forerunner. Else wherefore is he so mad against ...