Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Hebrews 12:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 281, footnote 2 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

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To the Presbyters of Nicopolis. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3023 (In-Text, Margin)

... ministers, but contemptible because God has in them combined wickedness with weakness. Let us beware of being condemned for crying out too loud over a little pain. Only one thing is worth anguish, the loss of one’s own self, when for the sake of the credit of the moment, if one can really call making a public disgrace of one’s self credit, one has deprived one’s self of the everlasting reward of the just. You are children of confessors; you are children of martyrs; you have resisted sin unto blood.[Hebrews 12:4] Use, each one of you, the examples of those near and dear to you to make you brave for true religion’s sake. No one of us has been torn by lashes; no one of us has suffered confiscation of his house; we have not been driven into exile; we have not ...