Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Wisdom of Solomon 10:1
There are 3 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 284, footnote 2 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)
From Augustine to Optatus. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3906 (In-Text, Margin)
5. For you have made it sufficiently plain to me that you disapprove of those who assert that men’s souls are derived from that of the protoplast[Wisdom of Solomon 10:1] and propagated from one generation to another; but as your letter does not inform me, I have no means of knowing on what grounds and from what passages of scripture you have shewn this view to be false. What does commend itself to you is not clear either from your letter to the brothers at Cæsarea or from that which you have lately addressed to me. Only I see that you believe and write that “God has been, is, and will be ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 285, footnote 1 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)
From Augustine to Optatus. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3908 (In-Text, Margin)
As stated shortly by yourself (at the end of your letter to the brothers at Cæsarea) your dilemma is as follows: “inasmuch as I am your son and disciple and have but recently by God’s help come to consider these mysteries, I beg you with your priestly wisdom to teach me which of two opposite views I ought to hold. Am I to maintain that souls are transmitted by generation, and that they are derived in some mysterious way from Adam our first-formed father?[Wisdom of Solomon 10:1] Or am I with your brothers and the priests who are here to hold that God has been, is, and will be the author and maker of all things and all men?”
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 10:1] 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.