Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 16:34

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 213, footnote 20 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3043 (In-Text, Margin)

... ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.” And in another place a prophet sings: “At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.” We read also in the gospel how the Lord spent whole nights in prayer and how the apostles when they were shut up in prison kept vigil all night long, singing their psalms until the earth quaked, and the keeper of the prison believed, and the magistrates and citizens were filled with terror.[Acts 16:25-38] Paul says: “continue in prayer and watch in the same,” and in another place he speaks of himself as “in watchings often.” Vigilantius may sleep if he pleases and may choke in his sleep, destroyed by the destroyer of Egypt and of the ...

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