Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Habakkuk 1:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 130, footnote 4 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1889 (In-Text, Margin)

... instead of bowing them. What courage, think you, have the Corinthians now, or the Athenians or the Lacedæmonians or the Arcadians, or any of the Greeks over whom the barbarians bear sway? I have mentioned only a few cities, but these once the capitals of no mean states. The East, it is true, seemed to be safe from all such evils: and if men were panic-stricken here, it was only because of bad news from other parts. But lo! in the year just gone by the wolves (no longer of Arabia but of the whole North[Habakkuk 1:8]) were let loose upon us from the remotest fastnesses of Caucasus and in a short time overran these great provinces. What a number of monasteries they captured! What many rivers they caused to run red with blood! They laid siege to Antioch and ...