Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Acts 7:49

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 8, page 451, footnote 2 (Image)

Augustine: Expositions on the Psalms

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CCEL Footnote 4313 (In-Text, Margin)

... in the hands of Angels, when He was taken up into heaven: not that, if Angels had not sustained Him, He would have fallen: but because they were attending on their King. Say not, Those who sustained Him are better than He who was sustained. Are then cattle better than men, because they sustain the weakness of men? And we ought not to speak thus either; for if the cattle withdraw their support, their riders fall. But how ought we to speak of it? For it is said even of God, “Heaven is My throne.”[Acts 7:49] Because then heaven supports Him, and God sits thereon, is therefore heaven the better? Thus also in this Psalm we may understand it of the service of the Angels: it does not pertain to any infirmity in our Lord, but to the honour they pay, and to ...