Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Malachi 3:7

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 485, footnote 4 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

On the Advantage of Patience. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3593 (In-Text, Margin)

... determined; and although He has revenge in His power, He prefers to keep patience for a long while, bearing, that is to say, mercifully, and putting off, so that, if it might be possible, the long protracted mischief may at some time be changed, and man, involved in the contagion of errors and crimes, may even though late be converted to God, as He Himself warns and says, “I do not will the death of him that dieth, so much as that he may return and live.” And again, “Return unto me, saith the Lord.”[Malachi 3:7] And again: “Return to the Lord your God; for He is merciful, and gracious, and patient, and of great pity, and who inclines His judgment towards the evils inflicted.” Which, moreover, the blessed apostle referring to, and recalling the sinner to ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 293, footnote 5 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Sabinianus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3987 (In-Text, Margin)

... teeth, you arrange the stray hairs on your brown skull to the best advantage. Your bull’s neck bulges out with fat and droops no whit because it has given way to lust. Moreover you are redolent of perfume, you go from one bath to another, you wage war against the hair that grows in spite of you, you walk through the forum and the streets a spruce and smooth-faced rake. Your face has become the face of a harlot: you know not how to blush. Return, unhappy man, to the Lord, and He will return to you.[Malachi 3:7] Repent, and He will repent of the evil that He has purposed to bring upon you.