Nearly all agreed. Basil the Great, Ambrose of Milan and 10 others would say yes to the statement below. Only Isaac the Syrian would say no.
The statement in the quiz
“If someone you know is doing wrong, it's your job to tell them.”
The quiz puts it in today’s words. Each person below is placed by what they wrote or said. Where their line is clear on its own, it is printed with its source.
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12 early Christians
Your side
Clement of Alexandria c. 150 to c. 215 · Alexandria Clement agrees:
“Now censure is a mark of good-will, not of ill-will. For both he who is a friend and he who is not, reproach; but the enemy does so in scorn, the friend in kindness.”
The Instructor
Tertullian c. 155 to after 220 · Carthage Tertullian agrees.
On record in Apology.
Cyprian of Carthage c. 200 to 258 · Carthage Cyprian agrees.
On record in Testimonies against the Jews.
Martin of Tours c. 316 to 397 · Gaul, today's France Martin agrees.
On record in Dialogues, as Sulpicius Severus, who knew him, recorded it.
Macrina the Younger c. 327 to 379 · Cappadocia Macrina agrees:
“Will you not cease to be insensible to the divine blessings? Will you not remedy the ingratitude of your soul?”
Life of Macrina, as her brother Gregory remembered it
Basil the Great c. 330 to 379 · Caesarea in Cappadocia Basil strongly agrees:
“Those who pretend to be kind (really suffering from the disease of men-pleasing) and fail to rebuke sinners, are actually sentencing them.”
The Morals
Ambrose of Milan c. 339 to 397 · Milan Ambrose strongly agrees:
“Should I keep silence? But then my conscience would be bound, my utterance taken away, which would be the most wretched condition of all.”
Letter to the Emperor Theodosius
John Chrysostom c. 347 to 407 · Antioch and Constantinople Chrysostom strongly agrees:
“And make me not this cold reply. What matters it to me? I have nothing in common with him.”
Homilies on the Statues
Jerome c. 347 to 420 · Rome and Bethlehem Jerome strongly agrees:
“If an apostle or a prophet, themselves immaculate, could speak thus with a clemency embracing all, how much more earnestly should a sinner like me plead with a sinner like you.”
Letter to Sabinianus
Augustine of Hippo 354 to 430 · North Africa Augustine strongly agrees.
On record in City of God.
Benedict of Nursia c. 480 to c. 547 · Subiaco and Monte Cassino Benedict strongly agrees:
“Let him not shut his eyes to the faults of offenders; but as soon as they appear, let him strive with all his might to root them out.”
Rule of St Benedict
Gregory the Great c. 540 to 604 · Rome Gregory the Great strongly agrees:
“For those who take notice of what is evil in their neighbours, and yet refrain their tongue in silence, withdraw, as it were, the aid of medicine from observed sores, and become the causers of death, in that they would not cure the venom which they could have cured.”
Pastoral Rule
1 early Christian
Your side
Isaac the Syrian 7th century · Nineveh and the mountains Isaac strongly disagrees:
“Spread thy mantle over the sinner and cover him.”
Ascetical Homilies
What they said
Quiz Which early Christian thinks like you? And which would argue with you? See where you would stand on this and 22 more. Start Suggest a correction. Corrections that are applied are recorded in the public changelog.
