Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 2:11

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 663, footnote 8 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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Anonymous Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian. (HTML)

A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 5422 (In-Text, Margin)

... humble ourselves, that we may be exalted; let us acquiesce in the divine exhortation, whereby we may escape the day of the Lord and His anger. For thus He says: “Look, my son, upon the nations of men, and know who hath hoped in the Lord, and has been confounded; or has remained in His commandments, and has been forsaken; or has called upon Him, and He has despised him. For the Lord is loving and merciful, and forgiving in time of tribulation their sins to all those that seek after Him in truth.”[Ecclesiasticus 2:10-11] Therefore He says, “First tell thou thy sins, that thou mayest be justified.” Let there be first in your hand that prayer full of confession.