Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ezekiel 3:9

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 137, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1943 (In-Text, Margin)

... garb, and that, so far from blushing when he meets the eyes of his companions, he actually derides those who deride him! “There is a shame that leadeth to death and there is a shame that leadeth to life.” It is a monk’s first virtue to despise the judgments of men and always to remember the apostle’s words:—“If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” In the same sense the Lord says to the prophets that He has made their face a brazen city and a stone of adamant and an iron pillar,[Ezekiel 3:8-9] to the end that they shall not be afraid of the insults of the people but shall by the sternness of their looks discompose the effrontery of those who sneered at them. A finely strung mind is more readily overcome by contumely than by terror. And ...