Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Psalms 48:12
There are 3 footnotes for this reference.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 2, page 547, footnote 5 (Image)
Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria (HTML)
The Stromata, or Miscellanies (HTML)
Book VII (HTML)
Chapter XIII.—Description of the Gnostic Continued. (HTML)
Thence now, by knowledge collecting materials to be the food of contemplation, having embraced nobly the magnitude of knowledge, he advances to the holy recompense of translation hence. For he has heard the Psalm which says: “Encircle Zion, and encompass it, tell upon its towers.”[Psalms 48:12] For it intimates, I think, those who have sublimely embraced the Word, so as to become lofty towers, and to stand firmly in faith and knowledge.
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 159, footnote 10 (Image)
Tertullian (I, II, III)
Apologetic. (HTML)
An Answer to the Jews. (HTML)
Of the Times of Christ's Birth and Passion, and of Jerusalem's Destruction. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1237 (In-Text, Margin)
Then, after Alexander, who had reigned over both Medes and Persians, whom he had reconquered, and had established his kingdom firmly in Alexandria, when withal he called that (city) by his own name;[Psalms 48:12] after him reigned, (there, in Alexandria,)
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 325, footnote 1 (Image)
Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings
A Treatise on the Soul and its Origin. (HTML)
Treatise on the Soul and Its Origin (HTML)
Just as the Mother Knows Not Whence Comes Her Child Within Her, So We Know Not Whence Comes the Soul. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2375 (In-Text, Margin)
... them from their parents, or breathed into them separately as it had been into the first man? But whether it was this, or some other particular respecting the constitution of human nature, of which she was ignorant, she frankly confessed her ignorance; and did not venture to defend at random what she knew nothing about. Nor would this man say to her, what he has not been ashamed to say to us: “Man being in honour doth not understand; he is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like unto them.”[Psalms 48:12] Behold how that woman said of her sons, “I cannot tell how ye came into my womb,” and yet she is not compared to the senseless brutes. “I cannot tell,” she said; then, as if they would inquire of her why she was ignorant, she went on to say, “For it ...