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Psalm 113:6 (WEB)
who stoops down to see in heaven and on the earth?

Fathers and councils · 4

Ambrose of Milan, Concerning Virgins I.1Book I
“Would that at least that Gospel dresser of the vineyard, perhaps already bidden to cut down my fig-tree, would let it alone this year also, until he dig about it and dung it, that he may perchance lift the helpless out of the dust, and lift the poor out of the mire.” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. [cxii.] 6.
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Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 22
“Another Psalm which was read says: “Who is like unto the Lord our God, Who dwelleth on high, and regardeth lowly things in heaven and in the earth?”” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. [cxii.] 5, 6.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 113
“Any one would think that He dwelleth in the lofty heavens, whence He may behold the humble things on earth; but “He beholdeth the humble things that are in heaven and earth” (ver. 6): what then is His high dwelling, whence He beholdeth the humble things that are in heaven and earth?” — the author cites it
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Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion IV.14Book IV
“Again: “Who is like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, and yet looketh on the humble things that are in heaven and on earth!—who raiseth up the needy from off the ground, and out of the dunghill exalteth the poor; that He may set him with the princes of His people,” that is, in His own kingdom.” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. 5–8.
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