fear of the Lord
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
fear · fear of God
in the texts
Stromata
The doctrine that fear of the Lord, instilled by the law, is the beginning of wisdom and leads toward repentance and love.
and "by the fear of the Lord everyone turns away from evil.
and again, "In the fear of the Lord is hope of strength," it says.
" Indeed, "as a father pities his sons, so the Lord pitied those who fear him," David writes.
De Paenitentia
Reverent fear of God, presented as the necessary instrument and safeguard of genuine repentance.
with a good anxiety, surely, they avoid experiencing again what they once learned to fear.
whom the more corrected, except the more fearful, and therefore one who has performed true repentance?
and finally they would temper the measure of their repenting, because they would also keep in check the measure of their transgressing, fearing the Lord, of course.