Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 35:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 566, footnote 12 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

On Christian Doctrine (HTML)

Book III (HTML)

Obscure Passages are to Be Interpreted by Those Which are Clearer. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1892 (In-Text, Margin)

Now from the places where the sense in which they are used is more manifest we must gather the sense in which they are to be understood in obscure passages. For example, there is no better way of understanding the words addressed to God, “Take hold of shield and buckler and stand up for mine help,”[Psalms 35:2] than by referring to the passage where we read, “Thou, Lord, hast crowned us with Thy favor as with a shield.” And yet we are not so to understand it, as that wherever we meet with a shield put to indicate a protection of any kind, we must take it as signifying nothing but the favor of God. For we hear also of the shield of faith, “wherewith,” ...