Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 119:155

There are 3 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 1, page 88, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters

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He describes the twenty-ninth year of his age, in which, having discovered the fallacies of the Manichæans, he professed rhetoric at Rome and Milan. Having heard Ambrose, he begins to come to himself. (HTML)

He is Sent to Milan, that He, About to Teach Rhetoric, May Be Known by Ambrose. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 426 (In-Text, Margin)

... fame thereof, or flowed fuller or lower than was asserted; and I hung on his words intently, but of the matter I was but as a careless and contemptuous spectator; and I was delighted with the pleasantness of his speech, more erudite, yet less cheerful and soothing in manner, than that of Faustus. Of the matter, however, there could be no comparison; for the latter was straying amid Manichæan deceptions, whilst the former was teaching salvation most soundly. But “salvation is far from the wicked,”[Psalms 119:155] such as I then stood before him; and yet I was drawing nearer gradually and unconsciously.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 30, footnote 6 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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Psalm VIII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 303 (In-Text, Margin)

... but the new is born of the old, since spiritual regeneration is begun by a change of an earthy, and worldly life; and therefore the latter is called son of man. “Man” then in this place is earthy, but “son of man” heavenly; and the former is far removed from God, but the latter present with God; and therefore is He mindful of the former, as in far distance from Him; but the latter He visiteth, with whom being present He enlighteneth him with His countenance. For “salvation is far from sinners;”[Psalms 119:155] and, “The light of Thy countenance hath been stamped upon us, O Lord.” So in another Psalm he saith, that men in conjunction with beasts are made whole together with these beasts, not by any present inward illumination, but by the multiplication of ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 58, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm XXII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 600 (In-Text, Margin)

2. “O God, my God, look upon me, why hast Thou forsaken me far from my salvation?” (ver. 1). Far removed from my salvation: for “salvation is far from sinners.”[Psalms 119:155] “The words of my sins.” For these are not the words of righteousness, but of my sins. For it is the old man nailed to the Cross that speaks, ignorant even of the reason why God hath forsaken him: or else it may be thus, The words of my sins are far from my salvation.