Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ecclesiasticus 49:14

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 294, footnote 6 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3462 (In-Text, Margin)

XVIII. Thus Enos “hoped to call upon the Name of the Lord.” Hope was that for which he is commended; and that, not that he should know God, but that he should call upon him. And Enoch was translated,[Ecclesiasticus 49:14] but it is not yet clear whether it was because he already comprehended the Divine Nature, or in order that he might comprehend it. And Noah’s glory was that he was pleasing to God; he who was entrusted with the saving of the whole world from the waters, or rather of the Seeds of the world, escaped the Deluge in a small Ark. And Abraham, great Patriarch though he was, was justified by ...