Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Isaiah 22:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 149, footnote 3 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To a fallen virgin. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2110 (In-Text, Margin)

... might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.” Though they are wrapped in profound silence and lie stunned by their misfortune, robbed of all sense of feeling by the fatal blow, I at all events must not let such a fall go unlamented. If, to Jeremiah, it seemed that those whose bodies had been wounded in war, were worthy of innumerable lamentations, what shall be said of such a disaster of souls? “My slain men,” it is said, “are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.”[Isaiah 22:2] But I am bewailing the sting of the real death, the grievousness of sin and the fiery darts of the wicked one, which have savagely set on fire souls as well as bodies. Truly God’s laws would groan aloud on seeing so great a pollution on the earth. ...