Psalm 1:4 (WEB)
The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
Fathers and councils · 15
Tertullian
“…prevent Israel from priding himself on the notion that “the Gentiles are accounted as a little drop of a bucket,” or else as “dust out of a threshing-floor:” although we have God Himself as an adequate engager and faithful promiser, in that He promised to Abraham that “in his seed should be blest all nations of the…” — editor's note: See Isa. xl. 15: “dust of the balance,” Eng. Ver.; ῥοπὴ ζυγοῦ LXX. For the expression “dust out of a threshing-floor,” however, see Ps. i. 4, Dan. ii. 35.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“But upon these He shall fall when He shall come from above in judgment with a punishment of destruction, and thence He says, “Shall grind them to powder,” because “the wicked are like the dust which the wind scattereth abroad on the face of the earth.” [Ps 1:4]” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- BedeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Ps. 1:4.)” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““The ungodly are not so,” they are not so, “but are like the dust which the wind casteth forth from the face of the earth” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This is that dust which “the wind casteth forth from the face of the earth,” to wit, vain and silly boasting of the proud, puffed up, not of solid weight, as a cloud of dust carried away by the wind.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“And to the ungodly appointed to death, whom the wind casteth forth as dust from the face of the earth, Thou broughtest Me down.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
Read the whole comment““Not so are the ungodly, not so; but as the dust which the wind driveth away from the face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“They persecute us, of whom Thou hast said, “The ungodly are not so; but are like the dust, which the wind driveth away from the face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“For there hath entered into their eyes dust, and it hath blinded them, and they have become dust which the wind sweepeth from the face of the earth.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“They have become dust, they have become ungodly.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…them in the Paradise of God: and of them, as the words of the Psalmist say, ever blooming and bearing the foliage of virtues, “the leaf shall not wither,” and God shall be glad, receiving their fruit in due season, rejoicing, like a good planter, in his own works.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Again, showing the opposite scale of the balance of justice, He says, “But not so the ungodly—not so; but as the dust which the wind sweeps away from the face of the earth.”” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
Read the whole comment“Wherefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment” (being already condemned, for “he that believeth not is condemned already”), “nor sinners in the counsel of the righteous,” inasmuch as they are already condemned, so as not to be united to those that have lived without stumbling.” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4, 5.
Read the whole comment“It is in reference to the unbelieving that it is said, “that they are reckoned as the chaff which the wind drives from the face of the earth, and the drop which falls from a vessel.”” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4: Isa. xl. 15.
Read the whole comment““but as chaff which the wind drives away from the face of the earth,” and as a drop from a vessel.”” — editor's note: Ps. i. 4.
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Cross-references · 19
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.18.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 21:33–44 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VII.18.
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Luke 20:9–18 (7) (Catena Aurea).