Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 78:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 323, footnote 4 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 604 (In-Text, Margin)

... sinful woman. He restored the living soul to the corpse from which it had gone out; and He expelled from the sinful woman the deadly sin which dwelt within her. But the blind (Pharisee) who was insufficient for great things, because of the great things which he saw not, belied those small things which he had seen. For he was a son of Israel who attributed weakness to his God, and not to himself. For (Israel said), Though He smote the rock and the waters flowed, can He also give us bread?[Psalms 78:20] But when our Lord saw his weakness, that it missed the great things and, because of them, the small things also, He hasted to put forward a simple word, as though for a babe that was being reared on milk, and was not capable of solid food.