Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

2 Samuel 22:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 314, footnote 5 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1842 (In-Text, Margin)

... new life] man, made perfect and at rest, purified in body and in soul by the pure words of God, which are like silver purged from its dross, seven times refined, shall receive his reward, the denarius; so that with that reward the numbers 10 and 7 meet in him. For in this number [17] there is found, as in other numbers representing a combination of symbols, a wonderful mystery. Nor is it without good reason that the seventeenth Psalm is the only one which is given complete in the book of Kings,[2 Samuel 22:2-51] because it signifies that kingdom in which we shall have no enemy. For its title is, “A Psalm of David, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul.” For of whom is David the type, but of Him ...