Psalm 115:5 (WEB)
They have mouths, but they don’t speak. They have eyes, but they don’t see.
Fathers and councils · 8
Cyprian of Carthage
“Let those that make them be made like unto them.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxxxv. 15–18; cxv. 4–8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“They have eyes, and see not; ears have they, but they hear not.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxv. 5, 6.
Read the whole comment“Great are they, because they are of gold and silver; costly they are, shining they are; but yet, “Eyes they have, and see not!”” — editor's note: Ps. cxv. 4, 5.
Read the whole comment“Having eyes, and seeing not; and the other things which the Psalm mentions in what follows.” — editor's note: Ps. cxv. 5.
Read the whole comment““For they have mouths, and speak not: eyes have they, and see not” (ver. 5).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…of stolid idols, but of cunning demons; for what are idols but what they are represented to be in the same scriptures, “They have eyes, but they do not see,” and, though artistically fashioned, are still without life and sensation?” — editor's note: Ps. cxv. 5, etc.
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Leo the Great
“For although in the sight of the Lord the death of many of His saints has been precious, yet no innocent’s death was the propitiation of the world.” — editor's note: Cf. Ps. cxv. 5.
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Tertullian
““They have eyes, and see not; a nose, and smell not; hands, and they will not handle.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxv. 4–8.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 10.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 10.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 10.
Cited together in The Chaplet, or De Corona Chapter 10.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
Cited together in The City of God VIII.24.
