Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 37:7

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 493, footnote 3 (Image)

Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

Cyprian. (HTML)

The Treatises of Cyprian. (HTML)

On Jealousy and Envy. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3656 (In-Text, Margin)

8. Hence the threatening countenance, the lowering aspect, pallor in the face, trembling on the lips, gnashing of the teeth, mad words, unbridled revilings, a hand prompt for the violence of slaughter; even if for the time deprived of a sword, yet armed with the hatred of an infuriate mind. And accordingly the Holy Spirit says in the Psalms: “Be not jealous against him who walketh prosperously in his way.”[Psalms 37:7] And again: “The wicked shall observe the righteous, and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. But God shall laugh at him; for He seeth that his day is coming.” The blessed Apostle Paul designates and points out these when he says, “The poison of asps is under their lips, and their mouth is full ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 205, footnote 1 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen. (HTML)

In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2544 (In-Text, Margin)

1. I have been defeated, and own my defeat. I subjected myself to the Lord, and prayed unto Him.[Psalms 37:7] Let the most blessed David supply my exordium, or rather let Him Who spoke in David, and even now yet speaks through him. For indeed the very best order of beginning every speech and action, is to begin from God, and to end in God. As to the cause, either of my original revolt and cowardice, in which I got me away far off, and remained away from you for a time, which perhaps seemed long to those who missed me; or of the present ...