Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Wisdom of Solomon 15:11
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 316, footnote 4 (Image)
Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
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The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; or Concerning Chastity. (HTML)
Theophila. (HTML)
The Rational Soul from God Himself; Chastity Not the Only Good, Although the Best and Most Honoured. (HTML)
... He “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” And those artificers who, to the destruction of men, make images in human form, not perceiving and knowing their own Maker, are blamed by the Word, which says, in the Book of Wisdom, a book full of all virtue, “his heart is ashes, his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay; forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and Him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit;”[Wisdom of Solomon 15:10-11] that is, God, the Maker of all men; therefore, also, according to the apostle, He “will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.” And now, although this subject be scarcely completed, yet there are others which remain ...