Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 134:2

There are 2 footnotes for this reference.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 330, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

Expositions on the Book of Psalms. (HTML)

Psalm LXXII (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 3205 (In-Text, Margin)

... place: but “be taken away” can be understood in no other way at all, than that a thing is destroyed: that is, it is no more: but by “be exalted,” only that it is raised to a higher place. Which indeed when it is put in a bad sense is wont to signify pride: as is the passage, “In thy wisdom be not exalted.” But in a good sense it belongeth to a more exceeding honour, as, for instance, when anything is being raised; as is, “In the nights exalt ye your hands unto holy places, and bless ye the Lord.”[Psalms 134:2] Here then if we have understood the expression, “be removed,” what will be, “until the moon be removed,” but that it be so dealt with that it be no more? For perchance he willed this also to be perceived, that mortality is to be no longer, “when the ...

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 11, page 563, footnote 2 (Image)

Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans

The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans (HTML)

Homily XXXII on Rom. xvi. 17, 18. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1709 (In-Text, Margin)

... a Sacrifice, (“for a sacrifice to God is a contrite heart,”) (Ps. li. 17) which was loftier than the heavens, which was wider than the world, which was brighter than the sun’s beam, which was warmer than fire, which was stronger than adamant, which sent forth rivers, (“for rivers,” it says, “of living water shall flow out of his belly,”) (John vii. 38) wherein was a fountain springing up, and watering, not the face of the earth, but the souls of men, whence not rivers only, but even fountains of[Psalms 134:2] tears, issued day and night, which lived the new life, not this of ours, (for “I live,” he says, “yet not I, but Christ liveth in me,” (Gal. ii. 20) so Paul’s heart was His heart, and a tablet of the Holy Spirit, and a book of grace); which trembled ...