Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 7:21

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 113, footnote 11 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1107 (In-Text, Margin)

... certainly be carried out in act, unless fear of punishment deterred.) Have such just men, while living by faith, no need to say: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors?” And do they prove this to be wrong which is written, “In Thy sight shall no man living be justified?” and this: “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us?” and, “There is no man that sinneth not;” and again, “There is not on the earth a righteous man, who doeth good and sinneth not”[Ecclesiasticus 7:21] (for both these statements are expressed in a general future sense,—“sinneth not,” “will not sin,”—not in the past time, “has not sinned”)?—and all other places of this purport contained in the Holy Scripture? Since, however, these passages cannot ...

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