Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Hebrews 10:31

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 252, footnote 13 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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On His Father's Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3143 (In-Text, Margin)

16. It is a fearful thing, my brethren, to fall into the hands of a living God,[Hebrews 10:31] and fearful is the face of the Lord against them that do evil, and abolishing wickedness with utter destruction. Fearful is the ear of God, listening even to the voice of Abel speaking through his silent blood. Fearful His feet, which overtake evildoing. Fearful also His filling of the universe, so that it is impossible anywhere to escape the action of God, not even by flying up to heaven, or entering Hades, or by escaping to the far East, or concealing ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 314, footnote 2 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 579 (In-Text, Margin)

... pride. But this was for our sakes, that He might teach us, that whatever treasuries pride enters into, it is by boastfulness that it gains access to them. On this account let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. Our Lord then did not employ harsh reproof, because His coming was of grace: He did not refrain from reproof, because His later coming will be of retribution. For He put men to fear in His coming of humility; because it is a fearful thing to fall into His hands[Hebrews 10:31] when He shall come in flaming fire. But our Lord bestowed the most part of His helps rather by persuasion than by reproof. For the gentle shower softens the earth and penetrates all through it: but violent rain binds and hardens the face of ...