Psalm 144:7 (WEB)
Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners,
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“And Thou sendedst Thine hand from above, and drewest my soul out of that profound darkness, when my mother, Thy faithful one, wept to thee on my behalf more than mothers are wont to weep the bodily death of their children.” — editor's note: Ps. cxliv. 7.
Read the whole comment““Send forth Thy Hand from above, and deliver me, and draw me out of many waters” (ver. 7).” — the author cites it
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Tertullian
“Nor would the name of publicans have been so execrable in the eyes of the Lord, unless as being a “strange” name,—a (name) of such as put up the pathways of the very sky, and earth, and sea, for sale.” — editor's note: Extraneum. Comp. such phrases as “strange children,” Ps. cxliv. 7, 11 (cxliii. 7, 11, in LXX.), and Hos. v. 7; “strange gods,” etc.
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Confessions III.11.