Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 33:15

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 25, footnote 4 (Image)

Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria

The Pastor of Hermas (HTML)

Book Second.—Commandments (HTML)

Commandment Eighth. We Ought to Shun that Which is Evil, and Do that Which is Good. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 201 (In-Text, Margin)

“I told you,” said he, “that the creatures of God are double,[Ecclesiasticus 33:15] for restraint also is double; for in some cases restraint has to be exercised, in others there is no need of restraint.” “Make known to me, sir,” say I, “in what cases restraint has to be exercised, and in what cases it has not.” “Restrain yourself in regard to evil, and do it not; but exercise no restraint in regard to good, but do it. For if you exercise restraint in the doing of good, you will commit a great sin; but if you exercise restraint, so as not to do ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 215, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

City of God (HTML)

Augustin passes to the second part of the work, in which the origin, progress, and destinies of the earthly and heavenly cities are discussed.—Speculations regarding the creation of the world. (HTML)

Of the Beauty of the Universe, Which Becomes, by God’s Ordinance, More Brilliant by the Opposition of Contraries. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 490 (In-Text, Margin)

... possessing all things.” As, then, these oppositions of contraries lend beauty to the language, so the beauty of the course of this world is achieved by the opposition of contraries, arranged, as it were, by an eloquence not of words, but of things. This is quite plainly stated in the Book of Ecclesiasticus, in this way: “Good is set against evil, and life against death: so is the sinner against the godly. So look upon all the works of the Most High, and these are two and two, one against another.”[Ecclesiasticus 33:15]