Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 11:30
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 360, footnote 4 (Image)
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... remain in the blessed condition in which they were created, simply because they were not in like manner led astray to choose the worse part. For it is one thing to have a nature incapable of change, and another thing for a man through the efforts of his virtue, and by guarding what is good through the grace of the unchangeable God, to be kept from change. For everything that is secured or preserved by care, can also be lost by carelessness. And so we read: “Call no man blessed before his death,”[Ecclesiasticus 11:30] because so long as a man is still engaged in the struggle, and if I may use the expression, still wrestling—even though he generally conquers and carries off many prizes of victory,—yet he can never be free from fear, and from the suspicion of an ...