Hebrews 11:40
Douay-Rheims
God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.
Tertullian
What, then, is the Paraclete's administrative office but this: the direction of discipline, the revelation of the Scriptures, the reformation of the intellect, the advancement toward the "better things? " Nothing is without stages of growth: all things await their season.
Source details
A.D. 220 · on Heb 11:40 (On the Veiling of Virgins)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.