Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 6:7

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 105, footnote 9 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Fasting. (HTML)

The Physical Tendencies of Fasting and Feeding Considered.  The Cases of Moses and Elijah. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1035 (In-Text, Margin)

... him, and hath gone away from the Lord his Saviour.” In short, in the self-same Deuteronomy, when bidding precaution to be taken against the self-same cause, He says: “Lest, when thou shalt have eaten, and drunken, and built excellent houses, thy sheep and oxen being multiplied, and (thy) silver and gold, thy heart be elated, and thou be forgetful of the Lord thy God.” To the corrupting power of riches He made the enormity of edacity antecedent, for which riches themselves are the procuring agents.[Ecclesiastes 6:7] Through them, to wit, had “the heart of the People been made thick, lest they should see with the eyes, and hear with the ears, and understand with a heart” obstructed by the “fats” of which He had expressly forbidden the eating, teaching man not to ...