Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 39:25

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 170, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise Concerning Man’s Perfection in Righteousness. (HTML)

The Fourth Passage. In What Sense God Only is Good. With God to Be Good and to Be Himself are the Same Thing. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1507 (In-Text, Margin)

... makes no attempt whatever to explain; all he does is to oppose to it sundry other passages which seem to contradict it, which he adduces to show that man, too, is good. Here are his remarks: “We must answer this text with another, in which the same Lord says, ‘A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things.’ And again: ‘He maketh His sun to rise on the good and on the evil.’ Then in another passage it is written, ‘For the good things are created from the beginning;’[Ecclesiasticus 39:25] and yet again, ‘They that are good shall dwell in the land.’” Now to all this we must say in answer, that the passages in question must be understood in the same sense as the former one, “There is none good, save one, that is, God.” Either because ...