Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Psalms 137:8
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 4, page 620, footnote 11 (Image)
Tertullian (IV), Minucius Felix, Commodian, Origen
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... and all suggestions which are opposed to the truth. And in this way also the just give up to destruction all their enemies, which are their vices, so that they do not spare even the children, that is, the early beginnings and promptings of evil. In this sense also we understand the language of the 137th Psalm: “O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us: happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”[Psalms 137:8-9] For “the little ones” of Babylon (which signifies confusion) are those troublesome sinful thoughts which arise in the soul and he who subdues them by striking, as it were, their heads against the firm and solid strength of reason and truth, is the ...