Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Proverbs 30:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 246, footnote 6 (Image)

Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters

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Apology to the Emperor. (Apologia Ad Constantium.) (HTML)

History of his disobeying it. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1349 (In-Text, Margin)

... pray that you may, favours not such men, but was wont to turn away from them and avoid them, as raging dogs. He says, ‘Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I destroy.’ For he kept the commandment which says, ‘Thou shalt not receive a false report.’ And false are the reports of these men in your sight. You, like Solomon, have required of the Lord (and you ought to believe yourself to have obtained your desire), that it would seem good unto Him to remove far from you vain and lying words[Proverbs 30:8].