Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 24:12

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 194, footnote 3 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

A Treatise on the Soul. (HTML)

The Soul's Vitality and Intelligence. Its Character and Seat in Man. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1586 (In-Text, Margin)

... Asclepiades (may be placed their brother) physicians Herophilus, Erasistratus, Diocles, Hippocrates, and Soranus himself; and better than all others, there are our Christian authorities. We are taught by God concerning both these questions—viz. that there is a ruling power in the soul, and that it is enshrined in one particular recess of the body. For, when one reads of God as being “the searcher and witness of the heart;” when His prophet is reproved by His discovering to him the secrets of the heart;[Proverbs 24:12] when God Himself anticipates in His people the thoughts of their heart, “Why think ye evil in your hearts?” when David prays “Create in me a clean heart, O God,” and Paul declares, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness,” and John says, ...