Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Romans 15:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 76, footnote 14 (Image)

Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen

Tertullian: Part Fourth. (HTML)

On Modesty. (HTML)

God Just as Well as Merciful; Accordingly, Mercy Must Not Be Indiscriminate. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 736 (In-Text, Margin)

... the same preferrer of mercy above sacrifice (says): “And pray not thou unto (me) on behalf of this People, and request not that they may obtain mercy, and approach not on their behalf unto me, since I will not listen to (them)” —of course when they sue for mercy, when out of repentance they weep and fast, and when they offer their self-affliction to God. For God is “jealous,” and is One who is not contemptuously derided —derided, namely, by such as flatter His goodness—and who, albeit “patient,”[Romans 15:5] yet threatens, through Isaiah, an end of (His) patience. “I have held my peace; shall I withal always hold my peace and endure? I have been quiet as (a woman) in birth-throes; I will arise, and will make (them) to grow arid.” For “a fire shall ...