Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 91:14

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 362, footnote 9 (Image)

Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen

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CCEL Footnote 4042 (In-Text, Margin)

... Godhead), be not overborne by elation. If you be taken by this he will not stop here. For he is insatiable, he grasps at every thing. He fawns upon you with fair pretences, but he ends in evil; this is the manner of his fighting. Yes, and the robber is skilled in Scripture. On the one side was that It is written about the Bread, and on the other that it Is written about the Angels. It is written, quoth he, He shall give His Angels charge concerning thee, and they shall bear thee in their hands.[Psalms 91:14] O vile sophist! how was it that thou didst suppress the words that follow, for I know it well, even if thou passest it by in silence? I will make thee to go upon the asp and basilisk, and I will tread upon serpents and scorpions, being fenced by the ...