Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 89:46

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 350, footnote 5 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 1059 (In-Text, Margin)

But after having prophesied these things, the prophet betakes him to praying to God; yet even the very prayer is prophecy: “How long, Lord, dost Thou turn away in the end?”[Psalms 89:46] “Thy face” is understood, as it is elsewhere said, “How long dost Thou turn away Thy face from me?” For therefore some copies have here not “dost,” but “wilt Thou turn away;” although it could be understood, “Thou turnest away Thy mercy, which Thou didst promise to David.” But when he says, “in the end,” what does it mean, except even to the end? By which end is to be understood the last time, when even that ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 350, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

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Of the Substance of the People of God, Which Through His Assumption of Flesh is in Christ, Who Alone Had Power to Deliver His Own Soul from Hell. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1061 (In-Text, Margin)

... here not “dost,” but “wilt Thou turn away;” although it could be understood, “Thou turnest away Thy mercy, which Thou didst promise to David.” But when he says, “in the end,” what does it mean, except even to the end? By which end is to be understood the last time, when even that nation is to believe in Christ Jesus, before which end what He has just sorrowfully bewailed must come to pass. On account of which it is also added here, “Thy wrath shall burn like fire. Remember what is my substance.”[Psalms 89:46-47] This cannot be better understood than of Jesus Himself, the substance of His people, of whose nature His flesh is. “For not in vain,” he says, “hast Thou made all the sons of men.” For unless the one Son of man had been the substance of Israel, ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 10, page 259, footnote 7 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2302 (In-Text, Margin)

120. Nor has it escaped us, that in another place also, setting forth the frailties of man’s estate, in order to show that He had taken upon Himself the infirmity of the flesh, and the affections of our minds, the Lord said, by the mouth of His prophet: “Remember, O Lord, what My substance is,”[Psalms 89:46] because it was the Son of God speaking in the nature of human frailty.

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