Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 1:15

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 676, footnote 17 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

Unity of Baptism.  Remarks on Heretical And Jewish Baptism. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8695 (In-Text, Margin)

... discipline, whom the mere fact of their excommunication testifies to be outsiders. I am not bound to recognize in them a thing which is enjoined on me, because they and we have not the same God, nor one—that is, the same —Christ. And therefore their baptism is not one with ours either, because it is not the same; a baptism which, since they have it not duly, doubtless they have not at all; nor is that capable of being counted which is not had.[Ecclesiastes 1:15] Thus they cannot receive it either, because they have it not. But this point has already received a fuller discussion from us in Greek. We enter, then, the font once:  once are sins washed away, because they ought never to be ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 270, footnote 4 (Image)

Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

Peter of Alexandria. (HTML)

The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras. (HTML)

Canon IV. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2289 (In-Text, Margin)

To those who are altogether reprobate, and unrepentant, who possess the Ethiopian’s unchanging skin, and the leopard’s spots, it shall be said, as it was spoken to another fig-tree, “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever; and it presently withered away.” For in them is fulfilled what was spoken by the Preacher: “That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.”[Ecclesiastes 1:15] For unless that which is crooked shall first be made straight, it is impossible for it to be adorned; and unless that which is wanting shall first be made up, it cannot be numbered. Hence also, in the end, will happen unto them what is spoken by Esaias the prophet: “They shall look upon ...