Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ephesians 3:13

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 381, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 4237 (In-Text, Margin)

... affliction for the Word), the Betrayal, the Nailing, the Burial, the Resurrection, the Ascension; and of these even now He suffers many dishonours at the hands of the enemies of Christ; and He bears them, for He is longsuffering. But from those who love Him He receives all that is honourable. And He defers, as in the former case His wrath, so in ours His kindness; in their case perhaps to give them the grace of repentance, and in ours to test our love; whether we do not faint in our tribulations[Ephesians 3:13] and conflicts for the true Religion, as was from of old the order of His Divine Economy, and of his unsearchable judgments, with which He orders wisely all that concerns us. Such are the mysteries of Christ. And what follows we shall see to be more ...