Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 127:5

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 223, footnote 9 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 3108 (In-Text, Margin)

... that one so old as you are yourself can live much longer? David tells you how long a time you can look for: “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.” Happy is he and to be held worthy of the highest bliss whom old age shall find a servant of Christ and whom the last day shall discover fighting for the Saviour’s cause. “He shall not be ashamed when he speaketh with his enemies in the gate.”[Psalms 127:5] On his entrance into paradise it shall be said to him: “thou in thy lifetime receivedst evil things but nowhere thou art comforted.” The Lord will not avenge the same sin twice. Lazarus, formerly poor and full of ulcers, whose sores the dogs licked ...