Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 14:11

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 531, footnote 14 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. (HTML)

Book III. (HTML)

Of the benefit of good works and mercy. (HTML)CCEL Footnote 4158 (In-Text, Margin)

... give; when you can do good immediately. For thou knowest not what may happen on the coming day.” Also in the same place: “He who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear the weak, shall himself call upon God, and there shall be none to hear him.” Also in the same place: “He who has his conversation without reproach in righteousness, leaves blessed children.” In the same in Ecclesiasticus: “My son, if thou hast, do good by thyself, and present worthy offerings to God; remember that death delayeth not.”[Ecclesiasticus 14:11] Also in the same place: “Shut up alms in the heart of the poor, and this will entreat for thee from all evil.” Concerning this thing in the thirty-sixth Psalm, that mercy is beneficial also to one’s posterity: “I have been young, and I have also ...