Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 102:20

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 8, page 450, footnote 7 (Image)

Twelve Patriarchs, Excerpts and Epistles, The Clementina, Apocryphal Gospels and Acts, Syriac Documents

Apocrypha of the New Testament. (HTML)

The Gospel of Nicodemus; Part II.--Christ's Descent into Hell:  Latin. First Version. (HTML)

Chapter 5. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1984 (In-Text, Margin)

... glory shall come in. Hades, seeing that they had twice shouted out this, says, as if not knowing: Who is the king of glory? David says, in answer to Hades: I recognise those words of the shout, since I prophesied the same by His Spirit. And now, what I have said above I say to thee, The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle; He is the King of glory. And the Lord Himself hath looked down from heaven upon earth, to hear the groans of the prisoners, and to release the sons of the slain.[Psalms 102:19-20] And now, most filthy and most foul Hades, open thy gates, that the King of glory may come in. While David was thus speaking, there came to Hades, in the form of a man, the Lord of majesty, and lighted up the eternal darkness, and burst asunder the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 65, footnote 7 (Image)

Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters

The Confessions (HTML)

Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the errors of the Manichæans. (HTML)

He Argues Against the Same as to the Reason of Offences. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 255 (In-Text, Margin)

... in private combinations or divisions, according as they have been pleased or offended. And these things are done whenever Thou art forsaken, O Fountain of Life, who art the only and true Creator and Ruler of the universe, and by a self-willed pride any one false thing is selected therefrom and loved. So, then, by a humble piety we return to Thee; and thou purgest us from our evil customs, and art merciful unto the sins of those who confess unto Thee, and dost “hear the groaning of the prisoner,”[Psalms 102:20] and dost loosen us from those fetters which we have forged for ourselves, if we lift not up against Thee the horns of a false liberty,— losing all through craving more, by loving more our own private good than Thee, the good of all.