“For our salvation and destruction are indeed in our own power and free will, as it is written: He made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel. (Eccles. 15:14) And: Before men are life and death, and whichever he chooses shall be given to him. (Eccles. 15:18) Therefore the Wise Man also war…”
Anastasius of Sinai, 7th c. — Questions, PL 89
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12Seek not death in the error of your life: and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.
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10For the ear of jealousy heareth all things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.
11Therefore beware of murmuring, which is unprofitable; and refrain your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret, that shall go for nought: and the mouth that belieth slayeth the soul.
— Wisdom of Solomon 1:12 —
13For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living.
14For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth: