Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 2:3

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 3, page 531, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: On the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises

Moral Treatises of St. Augustin (HTML)

On Patience. (HTML)

Section 11 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2648 (In-Text, Margin)

11. Let then the Saints hear from holy Scripture the precepts of patience: “My son, when thou comest to the service of God, stand thou in righteousness and fear, and prepare thy soul for temptation: bring thine heart low, and bear up; that in the last end thy life may increase. All that shall come upon thee receive thou, and in pain bear up, and in thy humility have patience. For in the fire gold and silver is proved, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.”[Ecclesiasticus 2:1-5] And in another place we read: “My son, faint not thou in the discipline of the Lord, neither be wearied when thou art chidden of Him. For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.” What is here set down, “son whom He ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 340, footnote 11 (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 1059 (In-Text, Margin)

... patience, probation; and probation, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed.” Do you see that the probation, which comes of tribulation, fixes in us the hope of the good things to come, and that the abiding in trials causes us to have a good hope of the future? So that I did not say rashly, that these tribulations themselves mark out to us hopes of a resurrection, and make those who are tried the better; for, he saith, “as gold is tried in a furnace, so an acceptable man in the furnace of humiliation.”[Ecclesiasticus 2:3]