Psalm 14:1 (WEB)
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
Fathers and councils · 20
Jerome
“xiv. 1, 3.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…liable to the punishment of offending Adam, what must we think of those who have said in their hearts “There is no God;” who “are corrupt and abominable” in their self-will, and of whom it is said “they are gone out of the way, they are become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no not one”?” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
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John Damascene
“…denying the existence of God, that most foolish and woe-fulest pit of destruction (whose folly David, revealer of the Divine meaning, exposed when he said, The fool said in his heart, There is no God), so the disciples of the Lord and His Apostles, made wise by the Holy Spirit and working wonders in His power and…” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1 (E.V.).
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“For he does not merely say like the blasphemous fool in the psalms “Christ is not true God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1. The Sept. reads Εἶπεν ἄφρων ἐν καρδία αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔστι Θεός, which admits of the translation “He is not God.”
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Ambrose of Milan
“To whom the Lord will make answer: “‘The fool hath said in his heart: There is no God’ Of whom, think you, is this said?—of Jew or Gentile, or of the devil.” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1; liii. 1. These words mean, not so much that a man says “There is no God” because he is a fool, because he is wanting in intelligence, but rather…
Read the whole comment“Again: “The fool hath said, There is no God;” for a wise man would not say so.” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. [xiii.] 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
““The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” (ver. 1).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…as far as seemeth to occur to our thoughts, very few there are; and a difficult thing it is to meet with a man that saith in his heart, “There is no God;” nevertheless, so few there are, that, fearing amid the many to say this, in their heart they say it, for that with mouth to say it they dare not.” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“…were not then as yet: and behold at that time they were foretold, now they are shown as fulfilled, and still the fool saith in his heart, “there is no God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“Whence in another Psalm is said, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“…forgotten, is the man who has forgotten God; for the unbelieving soul can arrive at darkness so intense, “that the fool saith in his heart, There is no God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“Or if any one fearing men, dare not utter aloud blasphemy with tongue of flesh, is he on this account guiltless of this crime, who saith in his heart, “There is no God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1
Read the whole comment“Yet both, if they are not in the number of those over-foolish ones, who say in their heart “There is no God,” when they hear these words, think both things, viz. both what God is, and what it is to be sent from God; and if they do not do this as the things themselves really are, they do it at any rate as they can.” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1
Read the whole comment“…earthly lusts, I mean, so that that in his case is true which is piteously described in a certain Psalm, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God,” he is such an one, of whom it is said, “Confession perisheth from the dead, as from one that is not.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“Few are found of such great impiety, that that should be fulfilled in them which is written, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“This Cicero himself saw, and therefore attempted to assert the doctrine embodied in the words of Scripture, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“After this the Word, shewing that actions correspond with thoughts, says, ‘They are corrupt; they are profane in their machinations.’” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1, 2.
Read the whole comment“They are corrupt, and become abominable in their doings.’” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
Read the whole comment“This is the root of their wickedness; on this foundation of sand they build up the perversity of their ways, as we find it written in the thirteenth Psalm, ‘The fool said in his heart there is no God;’ and presently follows, ‘Corrupt are they and become abominable in their works.’” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 1.
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John Chrysostom
“And again, “Our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?” ( Ps. xii. 4 ); and again “Wherefore hath the wicked man provoked God to wrath?” ( Ps. x. 13 ); and again, “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; they are corrupt and become abominable in their doings.” ( Ps. xiv. 1.)” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 26
Cited together in The City of God V.9.
Cited together in The City of God V.9.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Continence Chapter 4.
Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.6.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.25.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History IV.19.
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