Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 28:13

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 679, footnote 2 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

Of Preparation For, and Conduct After, the Reception of Baptism. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8745 (In-Text, Margin)

They who are about to enter baptism ought to pray with repeated prayers, fasts, and bendings of the knee, and vigils all the night through, and with the confession of all bygone sins, that they may express the meaning even of the baptism of John: “They were baptized,” saith (the Scripture), “confessing their own sins.” To us it is matter for thankfulness if we do now publicly confess our iniquities or our turpitudes:[Proverbs 28:13] for we do at the same time both make satisfaction for our former sins, by mortification of our flesh and spirit, and lay beforehand the foundation of defences against the temptations which will closely follow. “Watch and pray,” saith (the Lord), “lest ye fall into temptation.” And ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 227, footnote 20 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Rusticus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3174 (In-Text, Margin)

... that he might have mercy upon all.” And such was the progress that David made that he who had once been a sinner and a penitent afterwards became a master able to say: “I will teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” For as “confession and beauty are before God,” so a sinner who confesses his sins and says: “my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness” loses his foul wounds and is made whole and clean. But “he that covereth his sins shall not prosper.”[Proverbs 28:13]