Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Psalms 119:131
There are 3 footnotes for this reference.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 223, footnote 19 (Image)
Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen
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In Defence of His Flight to Pontus, and His Return, After His Ordination to the Priesthood, with an Exposition of the Character of the Priestly Office. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2846 (In-Text, Margin)
... garb and name of priest, before my hands had been consecrated by holy works; before my eyes had been accustomed to gaze safely upon created things, with wonder only for the Creator, and without injury to the creature; before my ear had been sufficiently opened to the instruction of the Lord, and He had opened mine ear to hear without heaviness, and had set a golden earring with precious sardius, that is, a wise man’s word in an obedient ear; before my mouth had been opened to draw in the Spirit,[Psalms 119:131] and opened wide to be filled with the spirit of speaking mysteries and doctrines; and my lips bound, to use the words of wisdom, by divine knowledge, and, as I would add, loosed in due season: before my tongue had been filled with exultation, and ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 7, page 245, footnote 3 (Image)
Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory Nazianzen
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To His Father, When He Had Entrusted to Him the Care of the Church of Nazianzus. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 3029 (In-Text, Margin)
1. I opened my mouth, and drew in the Spirit,[Psalms 119:131] and I give myself and my all to the Spirit, my action and speech, my inaction and silence, only let Him hold me and guide me, and move both hand and mind and tongue whither it is right, and He wills: and restrain them as it is right and expedient. I am an instrument of God, a rational instrument, an instrument tuned and struck by that skilful artist, the Spirit. Yesterday His work in me was silence. I mused on abstinence from speech. Does He strike upon my ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 139, footnote 3 (Image)
Basil: Letters and Select Works
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To his Brother Gregory, concerning the difference between οὐσία and ὑπόστασις. (HTML)
CCEL Footnote 2039 (In-Text, Margin)
... Son; and he who receives the Son does not divide Him from the Spirit, but, in consecution so far as order is concerned, in conjunction so far as nature is concerned, expresses the faith commingled in himself in the three together. He who makes mention of the Spirit alone, embraces also in this confession Him of whom He is the Spirit. And since the Spirit is Christ’s and of God, as says Paul, then just as he who lays hold on one end of the chain pulls the other to him, so he who “draws the Spirit,”[Psalms 119:131] as says the prophet, by His means draws to him at the same time both the Son and the Father. And if any one verily receives the Son, he will hold Him on both sides, the Son drawing towards him on the one His own Father, and on the other His own ...