Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Wisdom of Solomon 6:6

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 556, footnote 2 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. (HTML)

Book III. (HTML)

That those are more severely judged, who in this world have had more power. (HTML)CCEL Footnote 4616 (In-Text, Margin)

In Solomon: “The hardest judgment shall be made on those who govern. For to a mean man mercy is granted; but the powerful shall suffer torments mightily.”[Wisdom of Solomon 6:6] Also in the second Psalm: “And now, ye kings, understand; be amended, ye who judge the earth.”

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 17, footnote 13 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Heliodorus, Monk. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 240 (In-Text, Margin)

... bushes when, in a moment, he was made a prophet. David was only a shepherd when he was chosen to be king. And the least of His disciples was the one whom Jesus loved the most. My brother, sit down in the lower room, that when one less honorable comes you may be bidden to go up higher. Upon whom does the Lord rest but upon him that is lowly and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at His word? To whom God has committed much, of him He will ask the more. “Mighty men shall be mightily tormented.”[Wisdom of Solomon 6:6] No man need pride himself in the day of judgment on merely physical chastity, for then shall men give account for every idle word, and the reviling of a brother shall be counted as the sin of murder. Paul and Peter now reign with Christ, and it is ...