Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 18:32

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 430, footnote 2 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 4628 (In-Text, Margin)

... Passover purely, having mortified your members which are upon the earth, and copying the girdle of John, the Hermit and Forerunner and great Herald of the Truth. Another girdle I know, the soldierly and manly one, I mean, from which the Euzoni of Syria and certain Monozoni take their name. And it is in respect of this too that God saith in an oracle to Job, “Nay, but gird up thy loins like a man, and give a manly answer.” With this also holy David boasts that he is girded with strength from God,[Psalms 18:32] and speaks of God Himself as clothed with strength and girded about with power—against the ungodly of course—though perhaps some may prefer to see in this a declaration of the abundance of His power, and, as it were, its restraint, just as also He ...