Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Wisdom of Solomon 7:1
There are 4 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 185, footnote 5 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Work on the Proceedings of Pelagius. (HTML)
Pelagius’ Answer Examined. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1614 (In-Text, Margin)
Indeed, in this very book which contains these statements, after laying down the position, “All men are governed by their own will, and every one is submitted to his own desire,” Pelagius goes on to adduce the testimony of Scripture, from which it is evident enough that no man ought to trust to himself for direction. For on this very subject the Wisdom of Solomon declares: “I myself also am a mortal man like unto all; and the offspring of him that was first made of the earth,”[Wisdom of Solomon 7:1] —with other similar words to the conclusion of the paragraph, where we read: “For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out therefrom: wherefore I prayed and understanding was given to me; I called, and the Spirit of Wisdom came into me.” ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 340, footnote 4 (Image)
Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes
The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch. (HTML)
Homily I (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1052 (In-Text, Margin)
21. And that other reason too I will endeavor to bring forward from the Scriptures. But what was it? It was, that we might not say, when exhorted to the same virtue, that they were partakers of another nature, or were not men. On this account, a certain one speaking of the great Elias, says, “Elias was a man of like passions with us.” Do you perceive, that he shows from a communion of suffering, that he was the same kind of man that we are? And again, “I too am a man of like passions with you.”[Wisdom of Solomon 7:1] And this guarantees a community of nature.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 61, footnote 16 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)
Paula and Eustochium to Marcella. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 958 (In-Text, Margin)
Well, then, to bring forward something still more out of place, we must go back to yet remoter times. Tradition has it that in this city, nay, more, on this very spot, Adam lived and died. The place where our Lord was crucified is called Calvary, because the skull of the primitive man was buried there. So it came to pass that the second Adam, that is the blood of Christ, as it dropped from the cross, washed away the sins of the buried protoplast,[Wisdom of Solomon 7:1] the first Adam, and thus the words of the apostle were fulfilled: “Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 281, footnote 3 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults. (HTML)
Book XII. Of the Spirit of Pride. (HTML)
Chapter V. That incentives to all sins spring from pride. (HTML)
This is the reason of the first fall, and the starting point of the original malady, which again insinuating itself into the first man,[Wisdom of Solomon 7:1] through him who had already been destroyed by it, produced the weaknesses and materials of all faults. For while he believed that by the freedom of his will and by his own efforts he could obtain the glory of Deity, he actually lost that glory which he already possessed through the free gift of the Creator.