Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Wisdom of Solomon 16

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 111, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter. (HTML)

He Returns to the Question Which Marcellinus Had Proposed to Him. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1078 (In-Text, Margin)

... could be found. We accordingly adduced certain cases out of the gospel and of the law, at the beginning of this work,—such as the passing of a camel through the eye of a needle; and the twelve thousand legions of angels, who could fight for Christ, if He pleased; and those nations which God said He could have exterminated at once from the face of His people, —none of which possibilities were ever reduced to fact. To these instances may be added those which are referred to in the Book of Wisdom,[Wisdom of Solomon 16] suggesting how many are the strange torments and troubles which God was able to employ against ungodly men, by using the creature which was obedient to His beck, which, however, He did not employ. One might also allude to that mountain, which faith ...