Habakkuk 3:2 (WEB)
LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
Fathers and councils · 9
Irenaeus of Lyons
“…be known when the years have drawn nigh; Thou shalt be set forth when the time comes; because my soul is disturbed by anger, Thou shalt remember Thy mercy.”” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Again thou hast heard Habakkuk say to the Lord, When the years draw nigh, thou shalt be made known, when the time is come, thou shalt be shewn.” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2: (R.V.) O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known. The Septuagint gives a different sense: In the…
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26Conference XVI
“…he will not be able to accuse himself as guilty or be blamed by the other; and thus he will fulfil these words of the prophet: “In wrath remember mercy.”” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment “But Habakkuk too declaring the same thing which the other was wishing for, says: “When the years draw nigh, Thou wilt show Thyself: at the coming of the times Thou wilt be manifested: God will come from Teman,” or “God will come from the south.”” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2, 3, where the Old Latin has “Theman,” and the Vulgate “Austro.”
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Origen
“And we think that that expression also which occurs in the hymn of Habakkuk, “In the midst either of the two living things, or of the two lives, Thou wilt be known,” ought to be understood of Christ and of the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But if we venture to bring all nature within the comprehensive view of one act of contemplation, doth not that take place in us which the prophet describeth, “I considered Thy works, and trembled”?” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2.
Read the whole comment“In his prayer, with a song, to whom but the Lord Christ does he say, “O Lord, I have heard Thy hearing, and was afraid: O Lord, I have considered Thy works, and was greatly afraid?”” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2.
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Leo the Great
“…undertaken, ought myself also to utter that exclamation of the Prophet, “Lord, I heard Thy speech and was afraid: I considered Thy works and was dismayed.”” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2 (LXX.).
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Tertullian
““In the midst of the two Thou shalt be known”—even Moses and Elias.” — editor's note: Hab. iii. 2, according to the Septuagint. St. Augustine similarly applied this passage, De Civit. Dei, xviii. 32.
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Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.15.
Cited together in Conferences XI–XVII XVI.26.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.15.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 3.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius V.15.