Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

1 Kings 8:4

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 378, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXXVIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3645 (In-Text, Margin)

34. “And He rejected,” he saith, “the tabernacle of Joseph, and the tribe of Ephraim[1 Kings 8:4] He chose not” (ver. 68). “And He chose the tribe of Judah” (ver. 69). He hath not said, He rejected the tabernacle of Reuben, who was the first-born son of Jacob; nor them that follow, and precede Judah in order of birth; so that they being rejected and not chosen, the tribe of Judah was chosen. For it might have been said that they were deservedly rejected; because even in the blessing of Jacob wherewith he blessed his sons, he mentioneth their sins, ...