Psalm 113:7 (WEB)
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“Ps. cxiii. 7, 8.” — the author cites it
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Ambrose of Milan
“He had heard in the utterance of David, how God “raiseth the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. [cxii.] 7.
Read the whole comment“…hidden under the unnoted turf, whose souls were in heaven, their bodies in the earth: “raising the poor out of the dust, and lifting the needy from the mire,” and you see how He hath “set them with the princes of His people.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. [cxii.] 7.
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Augustine of Hippo
“This He doth who “from the ground raises the helpless, and from the dunghill exalts the poor.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxiii. 7.
Read the whole comment““He taketh up the destitute out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire” (ver. 7); “that He may set Him with the princes, even with the princes of His people” (ver. 8).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“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.
Read the whole comment“I think that we have already, in another passage, sufficiently shown that the glory of riches is condemned by our God, “who putteth down the mighty from their throne, and exalts the poor from the dunghill.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Sam. ii. 8 with Ps. cxiii. 7 and Luke i. 52.
Read the whole comment“…of luxury, announced indeed by Moses and the prophets, but decreed by that God, who deposes princes from their thrones, and raiseth up the poor from dunghills.” — editor's note: See 1 Sam. ii. 6–8, Ps. cxiii. 7, and Luke i. 52.
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Parallel passages
1 Samuel 2:8 and Psalm 113:7 share the same wording (15 words).