Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 2:18

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 14, page 458, footnote 3 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews. (HTML)

Hebrews 10.26,27 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3171 (In-Text, Margin)

... [belongeth] unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge His people.” “Let us fall,” it is said, “into the hands of the Lord, and not into the hands of men.” (Ecclus. ii. 18.) But if ye repent not, ye shall “fall into the hands of” God: that is fearful: it is nothing, to “fall into the hands of men.” When, he means, we see any man punished here, let us not be terrified at the things present, but shudder at the things to come. “For according to His mercy, so is His wrath.”[Ecclesiasticus 2:18] And, “His indignation will rest upon sinners.” (Ecclus. v. 6.)