Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 27:6

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4, page 54, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings

Writings in Connection with the Manichæan Controversy. (HTML)

On the Morals of the Catholic Church. (HTML)

Scripture Precepts and Examples of Fortitude. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 116 (In-Text, Margin)

... heart, bore up against tyrant, and executioner, and pain, and sex, and natural affection? Had she not heard, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints?" Had she not heard, "A patient man is better than the mightiest?" Had she not heard, "All that is appointed thee receive; and in pain bear it; and in abasement keep thy patience: for in fire are gold and silver tried?" Had she not heard, "The fire tries the vessels of the potter, and for just men is the trial of tribulation?"[Ecclesiasticus 27:6] These she knew, and many other precepts of fortitude written in these books, which alone existed at that time, by the same divine Spirit who writes those in the New Testament.