Psalm 14:4 (WEB)
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on the LORD?
Fathers and councils · 7
Jerome
“Also by Jeremiah, “Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life, and believe not the false prophets which say, Peace, peace, and there is no peace;” who are always repeating, “The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”” — editor's note: Jer. vii. 4; Ps. xiv. 4; liii. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
““Shall not all, who work iniquity, know?” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Upon the Lord they have not called.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 4.
Read the whole comment“This the Scripture doth express in another place, where it saith of such men, “On the Lord they have not called.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 4.
Read the whole comment“For in both the Psalms in which it is said, “They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one,” we read further, “Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 3, 4; liii. 3, 4.
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Basil the Great
“Thus too in the case of the heavenly powers; their substance is, peradventure, an aerial spirit, or an immaterial fire, as it is written, “Who maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire;” wherefore they exist in space and become visible, and appear in their proper bodily form to them that are worthy.” — editor's note: Ps. xiv. 4.
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John Cassian
“Wherefore I pray and beseech you, you who live within the circuit of Constantinople, and who are my fellow-citizens through the love of my country, and my brothers through the unity of the faith; separate yourselves from that ravening wolf who (as it is written) devours the people of God, as if they were bread.” — editor's note: Ps. xiii. (xiv.) 4; Col. ii. 21, 23; 2 Cor. vi. 17.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in The City of God XVI.10.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.10.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius VII.31.
Cited together in The City of God XVI.10.