Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 6:1

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 625, footnote 2 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2796 (In-Text, Margin)

... to thy neighbour. For the evil man shall inherit reproach and shame, and every sinner in like manner that is envious and double-tongued. Extol not thyself in the counsel of thine own heart as a bull, lest perchance thy virtue be shattered in folly, and it consume thy leaves, and destroy thy fruits, and thou be left as a dry tree in the desert. For a wicked soul shall destroy him that hath it, and makes him to be laughed to scorn by his enemies, and shall bring him down to the lot of the impious.”[Ecclesiasticus 6:1-4] Most dearly beloved, study to lift up the oppressed, and always help the necessitous; for if a man relieves an afflicted brother, delivers a captive, or consoles a mourner, let him have no doubt that that will be recompensed to him by Him on whom he ...