Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 79:10

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 248, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 2331 (In-Text, Margin)

... “hast driven us back”? Because Thou hast destroyed us. Wherefore hast destroyed us? Because angry Thou hast been, and hast had pity on us. Thou therefore wilt lead down, that hast driven back; Thou, O God, that wilt not march forth in our powers, wilt lead down. What is, “wilt not march forth in our powers”? The world is to rage, the world is to tread us down, there is to be a heap of witnesses, builded of the spilled blood of martyrs, and the raging heathen are to say, “Where is the God of them?”[Psalms 79:10] Then “Thou wilt not march forth in our powers:” against them Thou wilt not show Thyself, Thou wilt not show Thy power, such as Thou hast shown in David, in Moses, in Joshua the son of Nun, when to their might the Gentiles yielded, and when the ...