Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 104:20

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 23, footnote 19 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 359 (In-Text, Margin)

4. So long as we are held down by this frail body, so long as we have our treasure in earthen vessels; so long as the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh, there can be no sure victory. “Our adversary the devil goeth about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.” “Thou makest darkness,” David says, “and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey and seek their meat from God.”[Psalms 104:20-21] The devil looks not for unbelievers, for those who are without, whose flesh the Assyrian king roasted in the furnace. It is the church of Christ that he “makes haste to spoil.” According to Habakkuk, “His food is of the choicest.” A Job is the victim of his ...