Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiastes 12:12
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 564, footnote 1 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book VIII (HTML)
Chapter VII.—On the Causes of Doubt or Assent. (HTML)
But among the principal causes of scepticism is the instability of the mind, which is productive of dissent. And dissent is the proximate cause of doubt. Whence life is full of tribunals and councils; and, in fine, of selection in what is said to be good and bad; which are the signs of a mind in doubt, and halting through feebleness on account of conflicting matters. And there are libraries full of books,[Ecclesiastes 12:12] and compilations and treatises of those who differ in dogmas, and are confident that they themselves know the truth that there is in things.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 302, footnote 3 (Image)
Basil: Letters and Select Works
The Letters. (HTML)
To the Westerns. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3193 (In-Text, Margin)
4. Next comes Apollinarius, who is no less a cause of sorrow to the Churches. With his facility of writing, and a tongue ready to argue on any subject, he has filled the world with his works, in disregard of the advice of him who said, “Beware of making many books.”[Ecclesiastes 12:12] In their multitude there are certainly many errors. How is it possible to avoid sin in a multitude of words? And the theological works of Apollinarius are founded on Scriptural proof, but are based on a human origin. He has written about the resurrection, from a mythical, or rather Jewish, point of view; urging that we shall return again to the worship of the Law, ...