Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 67:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 46, footnote 11 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 1003 (In-Text, Margin)

... then at present, in the way of a digression, to put you in remembrance. Let me, however, add yet another testimony in proof that God is called the Father of men in an improper sense. For when in Esaias God is addressed thus, For Thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Sarah travailed not with us, need we inquire further on this point? And if the Psalmist says, Let them be troubled from His countenance, the Father of the fatherless, and Judge of the widows[Psalms 67:6], is it not manifest to all, that when God is called the Father of orphans who have lately lost their own fathers, He is so named not as begetting them of Himself, but as caring for them and shielding them. But whereas God, as we have said, is in an ...