Psalm 18:44 (WEB)
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
Fathers and councils · 13
Augustine of Hippo
“For both she bore the type of the people of the Gentiles, whereof the prophecy had gone before, “A people whom I have not known hath served Me:” and Lazarus, removed from the living, did as it were in that place lie in significative similitude where He lay, Whose voice that is, “I am cast out of the…” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 44—“Servivit.”
Read the whole comment““At the hearing of the ear they have obeyed Me” (ver. 44).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“In the hearing of me with the ear it obeyed me.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 43, 44.
Read the whole comment““Hath obeyed Me by the hearing of the ear.”” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 44, 45, Sept. (xviii. 43, 44, English version).
Read the whole comment“I was not there, and I was heard; here I was, and I was killed.” — editor's note: Ps. xvii. 43, 44, Sept. (xviii. 43, 44, English version).
Read the whole comment“They before whose eyes He was, heard Him not; those heard Him in whose ears He was sounded.” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 44.
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Tertullian
“For “a people,” he says, “whom I knew not hath served me; in obedience of the ear it hath obeyed me.”” — editor's note: See Ps. xviii. 43, 44 (xvii. 44, 45 in LXX.), where the Eng. ver. has the future; the LXX., like Tertullian, the past. Comp. 2 Sam. (in LXX. 2 Kings) xxii. 44,…
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“The Lord also therefore said concerning them, ‘The strange children have dealt falsely with Me; the strange children have waxen old.’” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 44, 45, LXX.
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John Chrysostom
“The strange children have waxed aged, and have halted from their paths.” ( Ps. xviii. 43–45 , LXX.) And again, “They to whom it had not been told concerning Him, shall see, and they which had not heard, shall understand.”” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“Surely it is altogether unworthy and unjust to admit to freedom of discussion men whom the Holy Spirit describes in the words of the prophet, “the sons of the stranger have lied unto me.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 44 (Vulg.).
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Pseudo-ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
“But afterwards turning their backs, they lied unto God, according to that in the Psalms, “The sons of the strangers have lied unto me.” [Ps 18:44] This is what is said, “But he went not.”” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Sons of strangers lied to me, and halted from their ways.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 43–45.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the seventeenth Psalm: “Thou shalt establish me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known have served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.”” — editor's note: Ps. xviii. 43, 44.
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Cross-references · 13
Cited together with
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 156.
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 21:28–32 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 21:28–32 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 21:28–32 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 21:28–32 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 21:28–32 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 27.
Cited together in Against Lying Chapter 27.
Cited together in Letters Letter 156.
Cited together in Letters Letter 156.
Cited together in Letters Letter 156.
Parallel passages
2 Samuel 22:45 and Psalm 18:44 share the same wording (12 words).
