Proverbs 23:5

Origen

• Origen, Against Celsus VI.44Book VI

  “…the saying of Solomon, the wisest of men, concerning the truly rich man, that “he made to himself wings like an eagle, and returns to the house of his patron.”” — editor's note: Cf. Prov. xxiii. 5. [See Neander’s History of the Church, vol. ii. p. 299, with Rose’s note. S.]

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Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84

  ““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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• Ezekiel 28:15

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.

• Ezekiel 28:19

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.

• John 10:18

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.

• Acts 2:31

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.

• 1 Corinthians 1:30

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.

• Galatians 2:20

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.

• 2 Timothy 2:5

  Cited together in Against Celsus VI.44.

• 1 Peter 2:21

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.

• 1 John 3:16

  Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 84.