Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 26:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 215, footnote 10 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2663 (In-Text, Margin)

... need but wish, and we would be wise?” “It would be utter folly to do so.” If we, or any learned and prudent man, were to say this to them, and try by degrees to cleanse them from their error, it would be sowing upon rocks, and speaking to ears of men who will not hear: so far are they from being even wise enough to perceive their own ignorance. And we may rightly, in my opinion, apply to them the saying of Solomon: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, a man wise in his own conceit;[Proverbs 26:12] and a still greater evil is to charge with the instruction of others a man who is not even aware of his own ignorance.