Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 7:36

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 255, footnote 11 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 3547 (In-Text, Margin)

... consists in meditating on death. A truth which our own apostle indorses when he says: “for your salvation I die daily.” Indeed according to the old copies our Lord himself says: “whosoever doth not bear His cross daily and come after me cannot be my disciple.” Ages before, the Holy Spirit had said by the prophet: “for thy sake are we killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.” Many generations afterwards the words were spoken: “remember the end and thou shalt never do amiss,”[Ecclesiasticus 7:36] as well as that precept of the eloquent satirist: “live with death in your mind; time flies; this say of mine is so much taken from it.” Well then, as I was saying, she passed her days and lived always in the thought that she must die. Her very ...