Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 105:8

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 7, page 358, footnote 2 (Image)

Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus, Dionysius, Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions, 2 Clement, Early Liturgies

Victorinus (HTML)

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John (HTML)

From the twentieth chapter (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2310 (In-Text, Margin)

... years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be finished: after this he must be loosed a little season.”] Those years wherein Satan is bound are in the first advent of Christ, even to the end of the age; and they are called a thousand, according to that mode of speaking, wherein a part is signified by the whole, just as is that passage, “the word which He commanded for a thousand generations,”[Psalms 105:8] although they are not a thousand. Moreover that he says, “and he cast him into the abyss,” he says this, because the devil, excluded from the hearts of believers, began to take possession of the wicked, in whose hearts, blinded day by day, he is ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 2, page 427, footnote 3 (Image)

Augustine: The City of God, Christian Doctrine

City of God (HTML)

Of the last judgment, and the declarations regarding it in the Old and New Testaments. (HTML)

What is Written in the Revelation of John Regarding the Two Resurrections, and the Thousand Years, and What May Reasonably Be Held on These Points. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1347 (In-Text, Margin)

... hundredfold;” of which the apostle gives, as it were, an explanation when he says, “As having nothing, yet possessing all things,” —for even of old it had been said, The whole world is the wealth of a believer,—with how much greater reason is a thousand put for totality since it is the cube, while the other is only the square? And for the same reason we cannot better interpret the words of the psalm, “He hath been mindful of His covenant for ever, the word which He commanded to a thousand generations,”[Psalms 105:8] than by understanding it to mean “to all generations.”