Proverbs 23:4 (WEB)
Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Fathers and councils · 2
Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.3Discourse III
“…thinking that they shall be as the Son, lest they hear it said to them, ‘Thou art a man and not God,’ and ‘Stretch not thyself, being poor, beside a rich man.’” — editor's note: Ez. xxviii. 2; Prov. xxiii. 4, LXX.
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Augustine of Hippo
““For He will provide Himself wings like an eagle’s, and will depart to the house of His overseer,” from which, at all events, He came to us, and found us not such as He Himself was who came.” — editor's note: The whole of this passage, taken from Proverbs xxiii. 3–5, as well as verses 1 and 2, quoted in sec. 1 of this Lecture, and in Tract. XLVII. sec. 2 (where see…
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.