Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 74:6

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 388, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXXX (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3764 (In-Text, Margin)

7. Then what? “Wherefore hast Thou thrown down her enclosure?” (ver. 12). Now ye see the overthrow of that nation of the Jews: already out of another Psalm ye have heard, “with axe and hammer they have thrown her down.”[Psalms 74:6] When could this have been done, except her enclosure had been thrown down. What is her enclosure? Her defence. For she bore herself proudly against her planter. The servants that were sent to her and demanded a recompense, the husbandmen they scourged, beat, slew: there came also the Only Son, they said, “This is the Heir; come, let us kill Him, and our own the inheritance will be:” ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 1, page 374, footnote 14 (Image)

Eusebius: Church History from A.D. 1-324, Life of Constantine the Great, Oration in Praise of Constantine

The Church History of Eusebius. (HTML)

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Panegyric on the Splendor of Affairs. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2867 (In-Text, Margin)

33. These things which were prophesied long ago have been recorded in sacred books; but no longer are they transmitted to us by hearsay merely, but in facts. This desert, this dry land, this widowed and deserted one, ‘whose gates they cut down with axes like wood in a forest, whom they broke down with hatchet and hammer,’[Psalms 74:5-6] whose books also they destroyed, ‘burning with fire the sanctuary of God, and profaning unto the ground the habitation of his name,’ ‘whom all that passed by upon the way plucked, and whose fences they broke down, whom the boar out of the wood ravaged, and on which the savage wild beast fed,’ now by the wonderful power of Christ, when ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 4, page 281, footnote 5 (Image)

Athanasius: Select Writings and Letters

Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.) (HTML)

Arian History. (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos.) (HTML)

Second Arian Persecution under Constantius. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1613 (In-Text, Margin)

Now if it was altogether unseemly in any of the Bishops to change their opinions merely from fear of these things, yet it was much more so, and not the part of men who have confidence in what they believe, to force and compel the unwilling. In this manner it is that the Devil, when he has no truth on his side, attacks and breaks down the doors of them that admit him with axes and hammers[Psalms 74:6]. But our Saviour is so gentle that He teaches thus, ‘If any man wills to come after Me,’ and, ‘Whoever wills to be My disciple;’ and coming to each He does not force them, but knocks at the door and says, ‘Open unto Me, My sister, My spouse;’ and if they open to Him, He enters in, but if they delay and ...