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 since it seemed good to God that men should be educated beforehand, through the Lord, from the law and the prophets, "the fear of the Lord is said to be the beginning of wisdom" — given by the Lord through Moses to the disobedient and hard-hearted;
" As, then, the days are a portion of the life that is by ascent, so too fear is the beginning of love, becoming, by increase, faith, then love — but not as I fear the wild beast and hate it (fear being twofold), but as I dread the father too, whom I both fear and love at once.
If, then, he has called the abstinence from evils "fearlessness," which the fear of the Lord works, the fear is a good;
De Paenitentia
Reverent fear of God, presented as the necessary instrument and safeguard of genuine repentance.
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.
For if you had repented of having transgressed because you had begun to fear the Lord, why did you prefer to rescind what you did for fear's sake, unless because you ceased to fear?