Psalm 18:28 (WEB)
For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
Fathers and councils · 10
““For Thou wilt light my candle; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness; and “of His fulness have all we received,” for “that was the true Light which lighted every man that cometh into the world;” for in Thee there is “no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28. Augustin constantly urges our recognition of the truth that God is the “Father of lights.” From Him as our central sun, all light, whether of…
Read the whole comment“For Thou, O our God, shalt enlighten our darkness; from Thee are derived our garments of light, and then shall our darkness be as the noonday.” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment“For of this he says in another Psalm, “Thou, O Lord, wilt light my candle.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment““For thou wilt light My candle, O Lord” (ver. 28).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This is the distinction, that thyself thou censure, Him thou praise: perceive thyself to be a creature, Him the Creator: thyself darkness, Him the Enlightener, to whom thou shouldest say, “Thou shalt light my lamp, O Lord my God, Thou shalt enlighten my darkness.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment““Thou shalt light my candle, O Lord my God, Thou shalt light my darkness.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Behold my light, behold whence I am illumined; for I cry, “Thou shalt illumine my candle, O Lord.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Do not thou then darken thy darkness; God darkeneth it not, but enlighteneth it yet more; for to Him is said in another Psalm, “Thou, Lord, shalt light my candle: my God shall enlighten my darkness.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Acknowledge therefore that of thine own self thou art no light to thyself; and cry out as it is written, “Thou, Lord, wilt light my candle: Thou wilt enlighten, O Lord, my darkness with Thy Light.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Let the grace of God come, and enlighten his darkness, as it saith, “Thou wilt lighten my candle, O Lord; my God, enlighten my darkness;” let it take the mind of man, and turn it to its own light; immediately he begins to say, as the apostle says, “Yet not I, but the grace of God that is with…” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 28.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions XIII.8.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
Cited together in Confessions IV.15.
