Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 4:25

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 136, footnote 11 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 1941 (In-Text, Margin)

6. Who can credit the fact that one, who is the glory of the Furian stock and whose grandfathers and great grandfathers have been consuls, moves amid the senators in their purple clothed in sombre garb, and that, so far from blushing when he meets the eyes of his companions, he actually derides those who deride him! “There is a shame that leadeth to death and there is a shame that leadeth to life.”[Ecclesiasticus 4:25] It is a monk’s first virtue to despise the judgments of men and always to remember the apostle’s words:—“If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” In the same sense the Lord says to the prophets that He has made their face a brazen city and a stone of adamant and an iron ...