Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 27:12
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 448, footnote 11 (Image)
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For they heard, I think, that excellent wisdom, which says to us, “Watch your opportunity in the midst of the foolish, and in the midst of the intelligent continue.”[Ecclesiasticus 27:12] And again, “The wise will conceal sense.” For the many demand demonstration as a pledge of truth, not satisfied with the bare salvation by faith.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 305, footnote 8 (Image)
Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters
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CCEL Footnote 1761 (In-Text, Margin)
8. Now mark what is said in Proverbs: “The wise man is fixed like the sun; but the fool changes like the moon.”[Ecclesiasticus 27:12] And who is the wise that has no changes, but that Sun of Righteousness of whom it is said, “The Sun of righteousness has risen upon me,” and of which the wicked shall say, when mourning in the day of judgment that it has not risen upon them, “The light of righteousness hath not shone upon us, and the sun hath not risen upon us”? For that sun which is visible to the eye of sense, God makes to rise upon the evil and the good alike, as He ...