Job 14:4

Jerome

• Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 2

  “But we, according to the Epistle of James, “all stumble in many things,” and“no one is pure from sin, no not if his life be but a day long.”For who will boast “that he has a clean heart? or who will be sure that he is pure from sin?”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4, 5, Sept.

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• Jerome, Against the Pelagians Book 1

  “Cyprian, in the fifty-fourth heading of the third book, lays it down that no one is free from stain and without sin, and he immediately gives proofs, among them the passage in Job, “Who is cleansed from uncleanness?” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4.

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• Jerome, Against the Pelagians Book 2

  “xiv. 4, 5.” — the author cites it

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 122

  ““There is no man clean from sin; even though he has lived but for one day.”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4, 5, LXX.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance I.1Book I

  “What can show more pride than this, since the Scripture says: “No one is free from sin, not even an infant of a day old;” and David cries out: “Cleanse me from my sin.”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4 [LXX loosely].

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• Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Repentance I.8Book I

  “Isaiah says: “O wretched that I am, and pricked to the heart; for that being a man, and having unclean lips, I dwell also in the midst of a people having unclean lips,” and do you say, “I am clean,” when, as it is written, not even an infant of a day old is pure?” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4 [LXX.].

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Athanasius of Alexandria

• Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.5Festal Letters

  “But, ‘stretching forth to those things that are to come,’ let us pray that we may not eat the Passover unworthily, lest we be exposed to dangers.” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4 (LXX.); Phil. iii. 13.

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Leo the Great

• Leo the Great, Sermons Sermon 28

  “Still further, because this was not permitted by natural generation, and because there could be no offspring from our faulty stock without seed, of which the Scripture saith, “Who can make a clean thing conceived of an unclean seed? is it not Thou who art alone?”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4.

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XX.26Book XX

  “But since they were banished thence on account of their transgression, and human nature was condemned in them, with the exception of the one Mediator and those who have been baptized, and are as yet infants, “there is none clean from stain, not even the babe whose life has been but for a day upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Job. xiv. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 41

  ““For who is clean? not even the infant whose life is but a day’s span upon the earth.”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4, 5; according to a reading of the Septuagint.

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3

  ““Nullus est a sorde mundus,” ait Job, “nee si sit quidera una dies vita ejus.”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4, 5.

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• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11Book IV

  “If you were to insist more urgently, I would say, That the man you name is man, but that God is righteous: “For no one is pure,” as one said, ‘from pollution.’”” — editor's note: Job. xiv. 4.

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Cyprian of Carthage

• Cyprian of Carthage, Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.55Book III

  “Not one; even if his life be of one day on the earth.”” — editor's note: Job xiv. 4, 5.

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• Psalm 51:2

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.1 and 1 other place.

• Psalm 109:1

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.

• Proverbs 3:18

  Cited together in The City of God XX.26.

• Ecclesiastes 7:17

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.1.

• Wisdom 1:9

  Cited together in The City of God XX.26.

• Isaiah 5:5

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11.

• Isaiah 40:1

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.

• Isaiah 65:22

  Cited together in The City of God XX.26.

• Jeremiah 23:5

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.

• Matthew 10:8

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.

• Matthew 11:28

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.1.

• Matthew 14:31

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.

• Matthew 22:44

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.

• Luke 15:5

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.1.

• John 14:12

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.

• Acts 9:17

  Cited together in Concerning Repentance I.8.

• Romans 1:17

  Cited together in The City of God XX.26.

• Romans 2:15

  Cited together in The City of God XX.26.

• Romans 2:16

  Cited together in The City of God XX.26.

• Philippians 4:4

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.

• Colossians 2:10

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:5

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:6

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:7

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:8

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.11.

• Exodus 16:6

  Cited together in Sermons Sermon 28.