Psalm 144:4

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 144

  ““Man is made like unto vanity: his days pass away like a shadow” (ver. 4).” — the author cites it

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XIV.15Book XIV

  “But now, as we recognize in his offspring, and as divine Scripture testifies, “Man is like to vanity.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVII.11Book XVII

  “…the fall of the first man has fallen from the truth into vanity; for which reason another psalm says, “Man is like to vanity: his days pass away as a shadow;” yet God has not made all the sons of men in vain, because He frees many from vanity through the Mediator Jesus, and those whom He did not foreknow as to be…” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XX.2Book XX

  “…anomalous state of things were uniform in this life, in which, as the sacred Psalmist says, “Man is like to vanity, his days as a shadow that passeth away,”—so uniform that none but wicked men won the transitory prosperity of earth, while only the good suffered its ills,—this could be referred to the just and even…” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 4.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XXI.24Book XXI

  “For God’s anger is this mortal life, in which man is made like to vanity, and his days pass as a shadow.” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 4.

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Ambrose of Milan

• Ambrose of Milan, On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus Book 2

  “So David, entering into himself, says: “Remember; Lord, that we are dust; as for man, his days are but as grass;” and in another place: “Man is like to vanity, his days pass away as a shadow.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. [cxliii.] 4.

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Gregory of Nyssa

• Gregory of Nyssa, On the Making of Man On the.21On the Making of Man

  “Thus when the evil poison worked its effect against man’s life, then man, that noble thing and name, the image of God’s nature, was made, as the prophet says, “like unto vanity.”” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 4 (LXX.).

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• John 10:18

  Cited together in The City of God XVII.11.

• Romans 6:9

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• 1 Corinthians 2:15

  Cited together in On the Making of Man On the.21.

• Philippians 2:8

  Cited together in The City of God XIV.15.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:21

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• 2 Timothy 2:19

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• Hebrews 5:14

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• Genesis 2:9

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• Psalm 13:1

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• Psalm 89:46

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• Psalm 89:47

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• Psalm 89:48

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