Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 24:4

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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 516, footnote 1 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. (HTML)
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That Christ is the First-born, and that He is the Wisdom of God, by whom all things were made. (HTML)CCEL Footnote 3931 (In-Text, Margin)

... the heavens, and I covered the whole earth with a cloud: I dwelt in the high places, and my throne in the pillar of the cloud: I compassed the circle of heaven, and I penetrated into the depth of the abyss, and I walked on the waves of the sea, and I stood in all the earth; and in every people and in every nation I had the pre-eminence, and by my own strength I have trodden the hearts of all the excellent and the humble: in me is all hope of life and virtue: pass over to me, all ye who desire me.”[Ecclesiasticus 24:3-7] Also in the eighty-eighth Psalm: “And I will establish Him as my first-born, the highest among the kings of the earth. I will keep my mercy for Him for ever, and my faithful covenant for Him; and I will establish his seed for ever and ever. If his ...

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