Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 13:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 153, footnote 7 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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To Lucinius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2237 (In-Text, Margin)

... Egyptian woman Joseph had to leave his garment with her. And the young man who followed Jesus having a linen cloth cast about him, when he was assailed by the servants had to throw away his earthly covering and to flee naked. Elijah also when he was carried up in a chariot of fire to heaven left his mantle of sheepskin on earth. Elisha used for sacrifice the oxen and the yokes which hitherto he had employed in his work. We read in Ecclesiasticus: “he that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.”[Ecclesiasticus 13:1] As long as we are occupied with the things of the world, as long as our soul is fettered with possessions and revenues, we cannot think freely of God. “For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 160, footnote 7 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

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On Lent, XI. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 944 (In-Text, Margin)

... the things which are not seen are eternal,” the path of virtue lies hid and in concealment, to a certain extent, since “by hope we were saved,” and true faith loves that above all things, which it attains to without any intervention of the flesh. A great work and toil it is then to keep our wayward heart from all sin, and, with the numberless allurements of pleasure to ensnare it on all sides, not to let the vigour of the mind give way to any attack. Who “toucheth pitch, and is not defiled thereby[Ecclesiasticus 13:1]?” who is not weakened by the flesh? who is not begrimed by the dust? who, lastly, is of such purity as not to be polluted by those things without which one cannot live? For the Divine teaching commands by the Apostle’s mouth that “they who have ...