Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 108:1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 536, footnote 5 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm CVIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 4901 (In-Text, Margin)

... from the verse, “The images of the heathen are but gold and silver:” as the th[4899] and d, with a few alterations in the middle, have everything the same from the beginning to the end. Whatever slight differences therefore occur in this th Psalm, compared with those two, of parts of which it is composed, are easy to understand; just as we find in the th, “I will sing and give praise; awake, O my glory:” here,“ I will sing and give praise, with my glory.”[Psalms 108:1] Awake, is said there, that he may sing and give praise therewith. Also, there, “Thy mercy is great” (or, as some translate, “is lifted up”) “unto the heavens;” but here, “Thy mercy is great above the heavens.” For it is great unto the heavens, that ...

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