Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 22:8
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 226, footnote 1 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
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... 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.