Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 38:24

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 7, page 304, footnote 9 (Image)

Augustine: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John, Soliloquies

Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John. (HTML)

Chapter XIII. 6–10 (continued), and Song of Sol. V. 2, 3. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1163 (In-Text, Margin)

... and spend a tranquil life in sweet and wholesome studies, the holy Church will take delight, and may say, “I sleep, and my heart waketh.” And what is this, “I sleep, and my heart waketh,” but just I sit down quietly to listen? My leisure is not laid out in nourishing slothfulness, but in acquiring wisdom. “I sleep, and my heart waketh.” I am still, and see that Thou art the Lord: for “the wisdom of the scribe cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise.”[Ecclesiasticus 38:24] “I sleep, and my heart waketh:” I rest from troublesome business, and my mind turns its attention to divine concerns (or communications).