Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 4:9
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 12, footnote 1 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)
On the Duties of the Clergy. (HTML)
Book I. (HTML)
Chapter XVI. To confirm what has been said above about rewards and punishments, he adds that it is not strange if there is no reward reserved for some in the future; for they do not labour here nor struggle. He goes on to say also that for this reason temporal goods are granted to these persons, so that they may have no excuse whatever. (HTML)
... wast rich, wherefore didst thou seize on the goods of others? Need did not force thee, poverty did not drive thee to it. Did I not make thee rich, that thou mightest have no excuse? So, too, it may be said to a person of power: Why didst thou not aid the widow, the orphans also, when enduring wrong? Wast thou powerless? Couldst thou not help? I made thee for this purpose, not that thou mightest do wrong, but that thou mightest check it. Is it not written for thee “Save him that endureth wrong?”[Ecclesiasticus 4:9] Is it not written for thee: “Deliver the poor and needy out of the hand of the sinner”? It may be said also to the man who has abundance of good things: I have blessed thee with children and honours; I have granted thee health of body; why didst ...