Gregory Thaumaturgus

Name: Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings, A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes — Chapter II
Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

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“Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings, A Metaphrase of the Book of Ecclesiastes — Chapter II”, published in 1885, is a work by Gregory Thaumaturgus. It explores elements such as wisdom, folly and choice.

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ Wherefore, having pondered at once the advantages of wisdom and the ills of folly, I should with reason admire that man greatly, who, being borne on in a thoughtless course, and afterwards arresting himself, should return to right and duty. For wisdom and folly are widely separated, and they are as different from each other as day is from night. He, therefore, who makes choice of virtue, is like one who sees all things plainly, and looks upward, and who holdeth his ways in the time of clearest light. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ For what advantage is there in those thoughts, or what profit is there in the multitude of words, where the streams of foolish speaking are flowing, as it were, from the fountain of folly? Moreover, there is nothing common to the wise man and to the fool, neither as regards the memory of men, nor as regards the recompense of God. And as to all the affairs of men, when they are yet apparently but beginning to be, the end at once surprises them. Yet the wise man is never partaker of the same end with the foolish. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ But the good man who gets wisdom from God, gets also heavenly enjoyment; while, on the other hand, the evil man, smitten with ills divinely inflicted, and afflicted with the disease of lust, toils to amass much, and is quick to put him to shame who is honoured by God in presence of the Lord of all, proffering useless gifts, and making things deceitful and vain the pursuits of his own miserable soul. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ At length, awaking and recovering my sight, I perceived that the things I had in hand were altogether sinful and very evil, and the deeds of a spirit not good. For now none of all the objects of men’s choice seems to me worthy of approval, or greatly to be desired by a just mind. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ For, to speak in brief, all my affairs have been wrought by me with labour and pain, as the efforts of thoughtless impulse; and some other person, it may be a wise man or a fool, will succeed to them, I mean, the chill fruits of my toils. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ And when I perceived that the soul is able to arrest the body in its disposition to intoxication and wine-bibbing, and that temperance makes lust its subject, I sought earnestly to observe what object of true worth and of real excellence is set before men, which they shall attain to in this present life. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ For the perfect good does not consist in eating and drinking, although it is true that it is from God that their sustenance cometh to men; for none of those things which are given for our maintenance subsist without His providence. ”

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Acknowledged Writings… (1885)

“ But when I cut myself off from these things, and cast them away, then did that real good which is set before man show itself to me,—namely, the knowledge of wisdom and the possession of manly virtue. [3] And if a man neglects these things, and is inflamed with the passion for other things, such a man makes choice of evil instead of good, and goes after what is bad instead of what is excellent, and after trouble instead of peace ”

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