Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 5:6

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 672, footnote 9 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Ethical. (HTML)

On Baptism. (HTML)

The Angel the Forerunner of the Holy Spirit. Meaning Contained in the Baptismal Formula. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 8586 (In-Text, Margin)

Not that in the waters we obtain the Holy Spirit; but in the water, under (the witness of) the angel, we are cleansed, and prepared for the Holy Spirit. In this case also a type has preceded; for thus was John beforehand the Lord’s forerunner, “preparing His ways.” Thus, too, does the angel, the witness[Ecclesiastes 5:6] of baptism, “make the paths straight” for the Holy Spirit, who is about to come upon us, by the washing away of sins, which faith, sealed in (the name of) the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, obtains. For if “in the mouth of three witnesses every word shall stand:” —while, through the benediction, we have the same (three) ...

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 630, footnote 2 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Novatian. (HTML)

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity. (HTML)

That God Also Appeared to Jacob as an Angel; Namely, the Son of God. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 5166 (In-Text, Margin)

... that reasonably there must be a distinction between Him who is called God only, and Him who is declared to be not God simply, but Angel also. Whence if so great an authority cannot here be regarded as belonging to any other angel, that He should also avow Himself to be God, and should bear witness that a vow was made to Him, except to Christ alone, to whom not as angel only, but as to God, a vow can be vowed; it is manifest that it is not to be received as the Father, but as the Son, God and Angel.[Ecclesiastes 5:6] Moreover, if this is Christ, as it is, he is in terrible risk who says that Christ is either man or angel alone, withholding from Him the power of the divine name,—an authority which He has constantly received on the faith of the heavenly ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 13, page 273, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians. (HTML)

Homilies on Colossians. (HTML)

Colossians 1:15-18 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 754 (In-Text, Margin)

... were according to the number of the nations; but now, not to the number of the nations, but that of the believers. Whence is this evident? Hear Christ saying, “See that ye despise not one of these little ones, for their Angels do always behold the face of My Father which is in heaven.” (Matt. xviii. 10.) For each believer hath an Angel; since even from the beginning, every one of those that were approved had his Angel, as Jacob says, “The Angel that feedeth me, and delivereth me from my youth.”[Ecclesiastes 5:6] (Gen. xlviii. 15, 16, nearly.) If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also. Therefore we pray, asking for the Angel of peace, and everywhere we ask for peace (for there is ...