Psalm 2:9 (WEB)
You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
Fathers and councils · 11
Cyril of Jerusalem
“The Lord said unto Me, Thou art My Son; this day have I begotten Thee: and a few words further on, Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron.” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 7, 9. The passage is interpreted by Cyril (xi. 5) of the eternal generation of the Son: here it refers to His Incarnation, or perhaps is meant only to…
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Augustine of Hippo
““Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron,” with inflexible justice, and “Thou shalt break them like a potter’s vessel” (ver. 9); that is, “Thou shalt break” in them earthly lusts, and the filthy doings of the old man, and whatsoever hath been derived and inured from the sinful clay.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment““Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron: and break them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9.
Read the whole comment“But there are whom He ruleth not; these He spareth not, as a potter’s vessel dashing them in pieces.” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9.
Read the whole comment“This discipline is also signified by that rod of iron, concerning which we read this statement in a Psalm: “Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron;” which words occur after the saying, “Yet I am set king by Him upon His holy hill of Zion!”” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9.
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John Chrysostom
“And again, “For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.” ( Ps. cii. 9.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“I am surprised that the reverend bishop in whose diocese he is said to be a presbyter acquiesces in this his mad preaching, and that he does not rather with apostolic rod, nay with a rod of iron, shatter this useless vessel and deliver him for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved.” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9.
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Tertullian
“…unexpected felicity: that you, who sometime were in God’s sight nothing but “a drop of a bucket,” and “dust of the threshing-floor,” and “a potter’s vessel,” may thenceforward become that “tree which is sown beside the waters, is perennial in leaves, bears fruit at its own time,” and shall not see “fire,” nor “axe.”” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9; Rev. ii. 27.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And by the same prophet He says: “Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron.”” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9.
Read the whole comment“If, then, one treats what is particular as universal, and regards that, which serves, as the Lord, he misses the truth, not understanding what was spoken by David by way of confession: “I have eaten earth [ashes] like bread.”” — editor's note: Ps. cii. 9. The text reads, γῆν σποδόν. Clement seems to have read in Ps. cii. 9, γῆν and σποδόν. The reading of the Septuagint may have crept into the text…
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Hippolytus of Rome
“Concerning this, he says, it has been written, “Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron.”” — editor's note: Ps. ii. 9.
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Cross-references · 17
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.7.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.7.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.7.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 4.
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