Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Galatians 4:17

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 590, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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CCEL Footnote 1988 (In-Text, Margin)

... have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.”[Galatians 4:10-20] Is there anything here of contrasted words arranged antithetically, or of words rising gradually to a climax, or of sonorous clauses, and sections, and periods? Yet, notwithstanding, there is a glow of strong emotion that makes us feel the fervor of ...