Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 8:14

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 146, footnote 3 (Image)

Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian

The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies. (HTML)

Chapter XXI. Exposition of St. Paul's Words.--1 Tim. vi. 20. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 496 (In-Text, Margin)

... from the times of old, they are every day seeking one novelty after another, and are constantly longing to add, change, take away, in religion, as though the doctrine, “Let what has once for all been revealed suffice,” were not a heavenly but an earthly rule,—a rule which could not be complied with except by continual emendation, nay, rather by continual fault-finding; whereas the divine Oracles cry aloud, “Remove not the landmarks, which thy fathers have set,” and “Go not to law with a Judge,”[Ecclesiasticus 8:14] and “Whoso breaketh through a fence a serpent shall bite him,” and that saying of the Apostle wherewith, as with a spiritual sword, all the wicked novelties of all heresies often have been, and will always have to be, decapitated, “O Timothy, keep ...