Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 103:8

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4, page 364, footnote 1 (Image)

Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings

Writings in Connection with the Manichæan Controversy. (HTML)

Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichæans. (HTML)

Augustin Prays that the Manichæans May Be Restored to Their Senses. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1135 (In-Text, Margin)

O great is Thy patience, Lord, full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy, and true;[Psalms 103:8] who makest Thy sun to rise upon the good and the evil, and who sendest rain upon the just and the unjust; who willest not the death of the sinner, so much as that he return and live; who reproving in parts, dost give place to repentance, that wickedness having been abandoned, they may believe on Thee, O Lord; who by Thy patience dost lead to repentance, although many according to the hardness of their heart and their impenitent heart ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4, page 432, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: The Anti-Manichaean Writings, The Anti-Donatist Writings

Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy. (HTML)

On Baptism, Against the Donatists. (HTML)

In which Augustin proves that it is to no purpose that the Donatists bring forward the authority of Cyprian, bishop and martyr, since it is really more opposed to them than to the Catholics.  For that he held that the view of his predecessor Agrippinus, on the subject of baptizing heretics in the Catholic Church when they join its communion, should only be received on condition that peace should be maintained with those who entertained the opposite view, and that the unity of the Church should never be broken by any kind of schism. (HTML)
Chapter 10 (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 1251 (In-Text, Margin)

... the peace of Christ; that they may be restored to the root, may be reconciled to the unity of the Church, may see that they have nothing left for them to say, though something yet remains for them to do; that for their former deeds the sacrifice of loving-kindness may be offered to a long-suffering God, whose unity they have broken by their wicked sin, on whose sacraments they have inflicted such a lasting wrong. For "the Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, plenteous in mercy and truth."[Psalms 103:8] Let them embrace His mercy and long-suffering in this life, and fear His truth in the next. For He willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his way and live; because He bends His judgment against the wrongs that have ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 5, page 81, footnote 3 (Image)

Gregory of Nyssa: Dogmatic Treatises; Select Writings and Letters

Dogmatic Treatises. (HTML)

Against Eunomius. (HTML)

Book I (HTML)
The Passage where he attacks the ῾Ομοούσιον, and the contention in answer to it. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 179 (In-Text, Margin)

... doctrine of the strangeness of either nature to the other, since this oneness of both cannot admit distinction in nature. For that which is signified in these words by the oneness of Father and Son is nothing else but what belongs to them on the score of their actual being; all the other moral excellences which are to be observed in them as over and above their nature may without error be set down as shared in by all created beings. For instance, Our Lord is called merciful and pitiful by the prophet[Psalms 103:8], and He wills us to be and to be called the same; “Be ye therefore merciful,” and “Blessed are the merciful,” and many such passages. If, then, any one by diligence and attention has modelled himself according to the divine will, and become kind and ...

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