Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 20:25

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 9, page 163, footnote 3 (Image)

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

Instructions to Catechumens. (HTML)

First Instruction. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 513 (In-Text, Margin)

... tongue.” Now the gravity of the fall the same person shows us again when he says: “To slip upon a pavement is better than to slip with the tongue.” And what he speaks of is of this kind. Better it is, says he, that the body should fall and be crushed, than that such a word should go forth as destroys the soul; and he does not speak of falls merely; he also admonishes us that much forethought should be exercised, so that we should not be tripped up, thus saying “Make a door and bars for thy mouth,”[Ecclesiasticus 20:25] not that we should prepare doors and bars, but that with much security, we should shut the tongue off from outrageous words; and again in another place, after showing that we need influence from above, both as accompanying and preceding our own ...