Psalm 18:29 (WEB)
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
Fathers and councils · 5
Augustine of Hippo
““For by Thee shall I be delivered from temptation” (ver. 29).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“As it were there is standing in my face a sort of wall, but thou hast the voice of a Psalm, “In my God I shall pass over the wall.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 29.
Read the whole comment“And again, “For by Thee,” he says, “I shall be delivered from temptation, and by hoping in my God I shall leap over the wall;” as if he said to some one else, “By Thee I shall be delivered from temptation.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 29
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For he knew that believers are strong while employed in thanksgiving, and that rejoicing they pass over the walls of the enemy, like those saints who said, ‘Through Thee will we pierce through our enemies, and by my God I will leap over a wall.’” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 29.
Read the whole comment“…treated, like Joseph, they patiently endure it, or being persecuted, they are not overtaken; but as it is written, through God they ‘leap over the wall’ of wickedness, which divides and separates between brethren, and turns them from the truth.” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 29.
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Parallel passages
2 Samuel 22:30 and Psalm 18:29 share the same wording (10 words).