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Psalm 17:8 (WEB)
Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

Fathers and councils · 5

Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 7
“Some have thought that God is fire; others that He is, as it were, a man with wings, because of a true text ill understood, Thou shalt hide me under the shadow of Thy wings.” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 17
““Keep Me, O Lord, as the apple of Thine eye” (ver. 8): which seems very little and minute: yet by it is the sight of the eye directed, whereby the light is distinguished from the darkness; as by Christ’s humanity, the divinity of the Judgment distinguishing between the righteous and sinners.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity I.1Book I
“For, in speaking of God, it has both used words taken from things corporeal, as when it says, “Hide me under the shadow of Thy wings;” and it has borrowed many things from the spiritual creature, whereby to signify that which indeed is not so, but must needs so be said: as, for instance, “I…” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 8
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Augustine of Hippo, Sermons on New Testament Lessons Sermon 8
“Whence it is said in the Psalms, “Keep me under the shadow of Thy wings.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVII.5Book XVII
“…flesh is made in the image of God, wings also are ascribed to Him, which man has not at all; and it is said to God, “Hide me under the shadow of Thy wings,” that men may understand that such things are said of that ineffable nature not in proper but in figurative words.” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 8.
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