Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 35

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 304, footnote 10 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXIX (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2952 (In-Text, Margin)

14. “And I have set sackcloth my garment” (ver. 11). Already before[Psalms 35] we have said something of the sackcloth, from whence there is this, “But I, when they were troubling Me, was covering myself with sackcloth, and was humbling My Soul in fasting. I have set sackcloth for My garment:” that is, have set against them My flesh, on which to spend their rage, I have concealed My divinity. “Sackcloth,” because mortal the flesh was: in order that by sin He might condemn sin in the flesh. “And I have set sackcloth my garment: and I have ...

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