Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Judges 4:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 398, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXXXIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3864 (In-Text, Margin)

... unto Madian and Sisera, as unto Jabin at the brook of Kishon” (ver. 9). “They perished at Endor, they became as the dung of the earth” (ver. 10). All these, the history relates, were subdued and conquered by Israel, which then was the people of God: as was the case also with those whom he next mentions: “Make their princes like Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana” (ver. 11). The meaning of these names is as follows: Madian is explained a perverted judgment: Sisera, shutting out of joy: Jabin, wise.[Judges 4:7-8] But in these enemies conquered by God’s people is to be understood that wise man of whom the Apostle speaketh, “Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?” Oreb is dryness, Zeb, wolf, Zebee, a victim, namely of the ...