Psalms 11:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 30, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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Psalm VIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 299 (In-Text, Margin)

... in the heavens; since both the Church universal, to signify which the moon is often put, and Churches in the several places particularly, which I imagine to be intimated by the name of stars, are established in the same Scriptures, which we believe to be expressed by the word heavens. But why the moon justly signifies the Church, will be more seasonably considered in another Psalm, where it is said, “The sinners have bent their bow, that they may shoot in the obscure moon the upright in heart.”[Psalms 11:2]

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 44, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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Psalm XI (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 453 (In-Text, Margin)

... done?” whom they accused as the destroyer of the Law: whose precepts, by their corrupt living, and by despising them, and by setting up their own, they had destroyed, so that the Lord Himself may speak as Man, as He is wont, saying, “In the Lord I trust; how say ye to my soul, Remove into the mountains as a sparrow?” by reason, that is, of the fear of those who desire to apprehend and crucify Him. Since the interpretation is not unreasonable of sinners wishing to “shoot at the upright in heart,”[Psalms 11:2] that is, those who believed in Christ, “in the obscure moon,” that is, the Synagogue filled with sinners. To this too the words, “The Lord is in His holy temple; the Lord, His seat is in heaven,” are suitable; that is, the Word in Man, or the very ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 515, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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Psalm CIV (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4742 (In-Text, Margin)

... spiritually the Church increasing from the smallest size, and growing old as it were from the mortality of this life; yet so, that it draweth nearer unto the Sun. I speak not of this moon visible to the eye, but of that which is signified by this name. While the Church was in the dark, while she as yet appeared not, shone not forth as yet, men were led astray, and it was said, This is the Church, here is Christ; so that “while the Moon was dark, they shot their arrows at the righteous in heart.”[Psalms 11:2] How blind is he who now, when the Moon is full, wandereth astray? “He appointed the Moon for certain seasons.” For here the Church temporarily is passing away: for this subjection to death will not remain for ever: there will some time be an end of ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 30, footnote 5 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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Of Faith. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 772 (In-Text, Margin)

Faith stoppeth the mouths of lions, as in Daniel’s case: for the Scripture saith concerning him, that Daniel was brought up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. Is there anything more fearful than the devil? Yet even against him we have no other shield than faith, an impalpable buckler against an unseen foe. For he sends forth divers arrows, and shoots down in the dark night[Psalms 11:2] those that watch not; but, since the enemy is unseen, we have faith as our strong armour, according to the saying of the Apostle, In all things taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. A fiery dart of ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 12, page 136, footnote 6 (Image)

Leo the Great, Gregory the Great

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On the Feast of the Nativity, IV. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 781 (In-Text, Margin)

... rule of the catholic and Apostolic creed, judge it altogether deadly and diabolical. Be not carried away by their deceitful keepings of sham and pretended fasts which tend not to the cleansing, but to the destroying of men’s souls. They put on indeed a cloke of piety and chastity, but under this deceit they conceal the filthiness of their acts, and from the recesses of their ungodly heart hurl shafts to wound the simple; that, as the prophet says, “they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart[Psalms 11:2].” A mighty bulwark is a sound faith, a true faith, to which nothing has to be added or taken away: because unless it is one, it is no faith, as the Apostle says, “one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one