Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 4:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 157, footnote 8 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2307 (In-Text, Margin)

... the dishonesty and negligence of which others have been guilty. For why should I, when called on to respond to your kind advances, continue dumb and repel by my silence the friendship which you offer? I who am always forward to seek intimate relations with the good and even to thrust myself upon their affection. “Two,” we read, “are better than one.…for if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow.…a three fold cord is not quickly broken, and a brother that helps his brother shall be exalted.”[Ecclesiastes 4:9-12] Write to me, therefore, boldly, and overcome the effect of absence by frequent colloquies.