Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 8:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 289, footnote 11 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 3429 (In-Text, Margin)

... I withdrew within myself. And then when I looked up, I scarce saw the back parts of God; although I was sheltered by the Rock, the Word that was made flesh for us. And when I looked a little closer, I saw, not the First and unmingled Nature, known to Itself—to the Trinity, I mean; not That which abideth within the first veil, and is hidden by the Cherubim; but only that Nature, which at last even reaches to us. And that is, as far as I can learn, the Majesty, or as holy David calls it, the Glory[Psalms 8:1] which is manifested among the creatures, which It has produced and governs. For these are the Back Parts of God, which He leaves behind Him, as tokens of Himself like the shadows and reflection of the sun in the water, which shew the sun to our weak ...