Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 121:3

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 14, page 425, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews. (HTML)

Hebrews 7.1—3 (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 2939 (In-Text, Margin)

[5.] Wherefore we ought always to “guard” ourselves, lest at any time we should fall asleep. For “Lo” (it is said) “he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Ps. cxxi. 4), and “Do not suffer[Psalms 121:3] thy foot to be moved.” (Ps. cxxi. 3.) He did not say, ‘be not moved’ but “do not thou suffer,” &c. The suffering depends then on ourselves, and not on any other. For if we will stand “steadfast and unmoveable” (1 Cor. xv. 58), we shall not be shaken.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 8, page 93, footnote 5 (Image)

Basil: Letters and Select Works

The Hexæmeron. (HTML)

The creation of moving creatures. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1630 (In-Text, Margin)

... prevents it from becoming the plaything of the waves. It is a certain sign for sailors that they are threatened with a violent agitation of the winds. No astrologer, no Chaldæan, reading in the rising of the stars the disturbances of the air, has ever communicated his secret to the urchin: it is the Lord of the sea and of the winds who has impressed on this little animal a manifest proof of His great wisdom. God has foreseen all, He has neglected nothing. His eye, which never sleeps, watches over all.[Psalms 121:3] He is present everywhere and gives to each being the means of preservation. If God has not left the sea urchin outside His providence, is He without care for you?