Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Proverbs 27:19
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 595, footnote 3 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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Origen Against Celsus. (HTML)
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But since Celsus rejects the statements concerning Antichrist, as it is termed, having neither read what is said of him in the book of Daniel nor in the writings of Paul, nor what the Saviour in the Gospels has predicted about his coming, we must make a few remarks upon this subject also; because, “as faces do not resemble faces,”[Proverbs 27:19] so also neither do men’s “hearts” resemble one another. It is certain, then, that there will be diversities amongst the hearts of men,—those which are inclined to virtue not being all modelled and shaped towards it in the same or like degree; while others, through neglect of virtue, rush to the opposite extreme. And amongst the ...