Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Ecclesiasticus 42:7
There are 2 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 153, footnote 7 (Image)
Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius
Anatolius and Minor Writers. (HTML)
Anatolius of Alexandria. (HTML)
Fragments of the Books on Arithmetic. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1216 (In-Text, Margin)
That Pythagoras was not the only one who duly honoured arithmetic, but that his best known disciples did so too, being wont to say that “all things fit number.”[Ecclesiasticus 42:7]
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 27, footnote 3 (Image)
Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. (HTML)
The Testament of Naphtali Concerning Natural Goodness. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 154 (In-Text, Margin)
... was swift on my feet like a deer, my father Jacob appointed me for all errands and messages, and as a deer did he give me his blessing. For as the potter knoweth the vessel, what it containeth, and bringeth clay thereto, so also doth the Lord make the body in accordance with the spirit, and according to the capacity of the body doth He implant the spirit, and the one is not deficient from the other by a third part of a hair; for by weight, and measure, and rule is every creature of the Most High.[Ecclesiasticus 42:7] And as the potter knoweth the use of each vessel, whereto it sufficeth, so also doth the Lord know the body, how far it is capable for goodness, and when it beginneth in evil; for there is no created thing and no thought which the Lord knoweth not, ...