Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 11:5

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 127, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: On the Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises, Select Homilies and Letters, Homilies on the Statutes

Letter to a Young Widow. (HTML)

Letter to a Young Widow. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 363 (In-Text, Margin)

So also a king who is here to-day is dead tomorrow; and again this same wise man illustrating the reversal of men’s hopes says “many tyrants have sat down upon the ground, and one that was never thought of has worn the crown.”[Ecclesiasticus 11:5] And it was not absolutely certain that if he lived he would arrive at this dignity; for that which belongs to the future is uncertain, and causes us to have various suspicions. For on what grounds was it evident that had he lived he would have attained that dignity and that things would not have turned out the other way, and that he would have lost the office he actually held either ...