Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Maccabees 2:69

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 249, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin. (HTML)

On Original Sin. (HTML)

Why the Circumcision of Infants Was Enjoined Under Pain of So Great a Punishment. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2005 (In-Text, Margin)

... to pieces, struck down and fractured to atoms? For, pray tell me, what evil has an infant committed of his own will, that, for the negligence of another in not circumcising him, he himself must be condemned, and with so severe a condemnation, that that soul must be cut off from his people? It was not of any temporal death that this fear was inflicted, since of righteous persons, when they died, it used rather to be said, “And he was gathered unto his people;” or, “He was gathered to his fathers:”[1 Maccabees 2:69] for no attempt to separate a man from his people is long formidable to him, when his own people is itself the people of God.