Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 40:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 682, footnote 4 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

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CCEL Footnote 6015 (In-Text, Margin)

... of speaking is such that he seem to have wished to suggest that there is but one book, yet to this it may be answered, that the words mean “in a book of the Psalms,” that is, “in any one of those five books.” And this is in common language so unprecedented, or at least so rare, that we are only convinced that the twelve Prophets made one book, because we read in like manner, “As it is written in the book of the Prophets.” There are some too who call all the canonical Scriptures together one book,[Psalms 40:8] because they agree in a very wondrous and divine unity.…