Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 20:7
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 2, footnote 3 (Image)
Ambrose: Select Works and Letters
Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, and Sermons. (HTML)
On the Duties of the Clergy. (HTML)
Book I. (HTML)
Chapter II. Manifold dangers are incurred by speaking; the remedy for which Scripture shows to consist in silence. (HTML)
... that most persons speak because they do not know how to keep silent. It is seldom that any one is silent even when speaking profits him nothing. He is wise, then, who knows how to keep silent. Lastly, the Wisdom of God said: “The Lord hath given to me the tongue of learning, that I should know when it is good to speak.” Justly, then, is he wise who has received of the Lord to know when he ought to speak. Wherefore the Scripture says well: “A wise man will keep silence until there is opportunity.”[Ecclesiasticus 20:7]