Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 25:16

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 286, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. (HTML)

The First Theological Oration.  A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3397 (In-Text, Margin)

... day, and praise the Lord at every time; or, to use Moses’ words, whether a man lie down, or rise up, or walk by the way, or whatever else he be doing —and by this recollection we are to be moulded to purity. So that it is not the continual remembrance of God that I would hinder, but only the talking about God; nor even that as in itself wrong, but only when unseasonable; nor all teaching, but only want of moderation. As of even honey repletion and satiety, though it be of honey, produce vomiting;[Proverbs 25:16] and, as Solomon says and I think, there is a time for every thing, and that which is good ceases to be good if it be not done in a good way; just as a flower is quite out of season in winter, and just as a man’s dress does not become a woman, nor a ...