Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 37:19

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 595, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

The Man Whose Life is in Harmony with His Teaching Will Teach with Greater Effect. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2009 (In-Text, Margin)

59. But whatever may be the majesty of the style, the life of the speaker will count for more in securing the hearer’s compliance. The man who speaks wisely and eloquently, but lives wickedly, may, it is true, instruct many who are anxious to learn; though, as it is written, he “is unprofitable to himself.”[Ecclesiasticus 37:19] Wherefore, also, the apostle says: “Whether in pretence or in truth Christ is preached.” Now Christ is the truth; yet we see that the truth can be preached, though not in truth,—that is, what is right and true in itself may be preached by a man of perverse and deceitful mind. And thus it is that Jesus Christ is preached by those that seek ...