Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 7:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 262, footnote 6 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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Against Eustathius of Sebasteia. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2881 (In-Text, Margin)

... in silence, and had persisted in covering his anguish in the bottom of his heart, at last he opened his mouth and uttered his well-known words. In my own case this is now the third year of my silence, and my boast has become like that of the Psalmist, “I was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs.” Thus I shut up in the bottom of my heart the pangs which I suffered on account of the calumnies directed against me, for calumny humbles a man, and calumny makes a poor man giddy.[Ecclesiastes 7:8] If, therefore, the mischief of calumny is so great as to cast down even the perfect man from his height, for this is what Scripture indicates by the word man, and by the poor man is meant he who lacks the great doctrines, as is the view also of the ...