Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 132:2

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 199, footnote 26 (Image)

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CCEL Footnote 2801 (In-Text, Margin)

... were fulfilled concerning Him, “A prince shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until He come for whom it is laid up, and He shall be for the expectation of the nations.” Well did David swear, well did he make a vow saying: “Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house nor go up into my bed: I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, or rest to the temples of my head, until I find out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the…God of Jacob.”[Psalms 132:2-5] And immediately he explained the object of his desire, seeing with prophetic eyes that He would come whom we now believe to have come. “Lo we heard of Him at Ephratah: we found Him in the fields of the wood.” The Hebrew word Zo as have ...