Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 139:23

There is 1 footnote for this reference.

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, page 194, footnote 4 (Image)

Tertullian (I, II, III)

Apologetic. (HTML)

A Treatise on the Soul. (HTML)

The Soul's Vitality and Intelligence. Its Character and Seat in Man. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1587 (In-Text, Margin)

... Diocles, Hippocrates, and Soranus himself; and better than all others, there are our Christian authorities. We are taught by God concerning both these questions—viz. that there is a ruling power in the soul, and that it is enshrined in one particular recess of the body. For, when one reads of God as being “the searcher and witness of the heart;” when His prophet is reproved by His discovering to him the secrets of the heart; when God Himself anticipates in His people the thoughts of their heart,[Psalms 139:23] “Why think ye evil in your hearts?” when David prays “Create in me a clean heart, O God,” and Paul declares, “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness,” and John says, “By his own heart is each man condemned;” when, lastly, “he who looketh on ...