The sources of De Patientia

1. Book of Job unspecified scriptural narrative 1 authority 1 citation

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   The passage narrates in detail the losses, affliction, wife's provocation, and doubled restoration matching the Book of Job, without naming the source text directly but clearly invoking it as authority.

   For he was not called away from the regard for God by so many griefs, but stood as an example and testimony to us, in spirit as in flesh, in mind as in body, of patience to be carried through — so that we may give way neither at the losses of worldly things, nor at the losses of our dearest, nor even at the afflictions of the body.

2. Gospel of Matthew unspecified evangelist/prophetic tradition 1 authority 1 citation

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   The text invokes 'the prophet' and the sign of the bruised reed/smoking flax, a citation from the prophetic-gospel tradition applied to Christ as authority for his patience.

   the bruised reed he did not break, the smoking flax he did not quench.

3. Tertullian 1 extended 1 citation

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   The opening lines recapitulate and extend the treatise's ongoing definition of true patience as 'heavenly and true, that is, Christian'

   This is the rationale of patience, this its discipline, this its working — heavenly and true, that is, Christian — not like that patience of the nations of the earth, false and shameful.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

de patientia 13 sources

Acts (martyrdom of Stephen) · Pauline epistle (desire to be with Christ, Philippians) · Pauline epistle (on grief and the resurrection, likely 1 Thessalonians) · Pauline hymn on love (1 Corinthians 13) · Romans / Pauline teaching on judgment · sayings of Christ (Sermon on the Mount tradition) · sayings of Christ on nonretaliation · sayings on divine chastisement (Hebrews/Proverbs tradition) · story of Isaiah's martyrdom (Ascension of Isaiah / prophetic tradition) · story of the king of Babylon's exile (Book of Daniel) · teaching on forgiveness (seventy times seven) and reconciliation before offering · the Law (Mosaic Law / Old Testament legal tradition) · theophany narrative of the still small voice (1 Kings, Elijah)