Hebrews 6:15
And so patiently enduring he obtained the promise.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et sic longanimiter ferens, adeptus est repromissionem.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ οὕτως μακροθυμήσας ἐπέτυχεν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας.
The Fathers on this verse
Clement of Alexandria The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter XXII. Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good Consists in Assimilation to God, and Its Agreement with Scripture
Further, Plato the philosopher says that the end is twofold: that which is communicable, and exists first in the ideal forms themselves, which he also calls “the good;” and that which partakes of it, and receives its likeness from it, as is the case in the men who appropriate virtue and true philosophy. Wherefore also Cleanthes, in the second book, On Pleasure , says that Socrates everywhere teaches that the just man and the happy are one and the same, and execrated the first man who separated the just from the useful, as having done an impious thing. For those are in truth impious who separate the useful from that which is right according to the law. Plato himself says that happiness ( εὐδαιμονία ) is to possess rightly the dæmon, and that the ruling faculty of the soul is called the dæmon; and he terms happiness ( εὐδαιμονία ) the most perfect and complete good. …