Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 119:11

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 177, footnote 2 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Pammachius and Oceanus. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2564 (In-Text, Margin)

... when I shew amendment. And this is not surprising, for my would-be friends suppose me a fellow-disciple with them in the arcana of their system. I am loath, they fancy, to profess esoteric doctrines before persons who according to them are brute-like and made of clay. For it is an axiom with them that pearls ought not to be lightly cast before swine, nor that which is holy given to the dogs. They agree with David when he says: “Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee;”[Psalms 119:11] and when in another place he describes the righteous man as one “who speaketh truth with his neighbour,” that is with those who “are of the household of faith.” From these passages they conclude that those of us who as yet are uninitiated ought to ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 254, footnote 6 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

The Letters of St. Jerome. (HTML)

To Principia. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3530 (In-Text, Margin)

4. Her delight in the divine scriptures was incredible. She was for ever singing, “Thy words have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee,”[Psalms 119:11] as well as the words which describe the perfect man, “his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” This meditation in the law she understood not of a review of the written words as among the Jews the Pharisees think, but of action according to that saying of the apostle, “whether, therefore, ye eat or drink or what soever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” She remembered also ...