Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 22:6
There are 3 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 226, footnote 1 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Instructor (HTML)
Book I (HTML)
Chapter VIII.—Against Those Who Think that What is Just is Not Good. (HTML)
... censure by rebuke; rousing the sluggishness of the mind by His sharp words as by a scourge. Again in turn He endeavours to exhort the same persons. For those who are not induced by praise are spurred on by censure; and those whom censure calls not forth to salvation being as dead, are by denunciation roused to the truth. “For the stripes and correction of wisdom are in all time.” “For teaching a fool is gluing a potsherd; and sharpening to sense a hopeless blockhead is bringing earth to sensation.”[Ecclesiasticus 22:6-8] Wherefore He adds plainly, “rousing the sleeper from deep sleep,” which of all things else is likest death.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 220, footnote 4 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)
To Julian. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3073 (In-Text, Margin)
Holy scripture says: “a tale out of season is as musick in mourning.”[Ecclesiasticus 22:6] Accordingly I have disdained the graces of rhetoric and those charms of eloquence which boys find so captivating, and have fallen back on the serious tone of the sacred writings. For in these are to be found true medicines for wounds and sure remedies for sorrow. In these a mother receives back her only son even on the bier. In these a crowd of mourners hears the words: “the maid is not dead but sleepeth.” In these one that is four days dead comes forth bound ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 500, footnote 2 (Image)
Jerome: Letters and Select Works
Prefaces. (HTML)
Prefaces to the Commentaries. (HTML)
Ezekiel. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 5437 (In-Text, Margin)
... was wavering between hope and despair, and was torturing myself with the misfortunes of other people. But when the bright light of all the world was put out, or, rather, when the Roman Empire was decapitated, and, to speak more correctly, the whole world perished in one city, “I became dumb and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words, but my grief broke out afresh, my heart glowed within me, and while I meditated the fire was kindled;” and I thought I ought not to disregard the saying,[Ecclesiasticus 22:6] “An untimely story is like music in a time of grief.” But seeing that you persist in making this request, and a wound, though deep, heals by degrees; and the scorpion lies beneath the ground with Enceladus and Porphyrion, and the many-headed Hydra ...