Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 60:7

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 536, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm CVIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4897 (In-Text, Margin)

1. I have not thought that the ^th Psalm required an exposition; since I have already expounded it in the ^th Psalm,[Psalms 60:5-12] and in the ^th, of the last divisions of which this Psalm consisteth. For the last part of the ^th is the first of this, as far as the verse, “Thy glory is above all the earth.” Henceforth to the end, is the last part of the ^th: as the last part of the ^th is the same as that of the ^th, from the verse, “The images of the heathen are but gold and silver:” as the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 536, footnote 11 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm CVIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4907 (In-Text, Margin)

... ^th, “I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem:” here “I will be exalted, and will divide Shechem.” Where is shown what is signified in the division of Shechem, which it was prophesied should happen after the Lord’s exaltation, and that this joy doth refer to that exaltation; so that He rejoiceth, because He is exalted. Whence he elsewhere saith, “Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy; Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.” Also there “Ephraim, the strength of my head:”[Psalms 60:7] but here, “Ephraim the taking up of my head.” But strength cometh from taking up, that is, He maketh men strong by taking up, causing fruit in us; for the interpretation of Ephraim is, bearing fruit. But “taking up” may be understood of us, when we ...