Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiastes 7:12

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 164, footnote 7 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2403 (In-Text, Margin)

3. These remarks are intended to shew that the youth of whom I speak used his kinship to the royal family, his abundant wealth, and the outward tokens of power, as helps to virtue. For, as the preacher says, “wisdom is a defence and money is a defence”[Ecclesiastes 7:12] also. We must not hastily conclude that this statement conflicts with that of the Lord: “verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven; and again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Were it so, the salvation of Zacchæus the publican, ...